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Title: Now independent thinkers are considered diseased by psychiatry
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URL Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/028803_psychiatry_disease.html
Published: May 18, 2010
Author: Ethan A. Huff
Post Date: 2010-05-18 12:16:57 by christine
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Views: 159
Comments: 13
(NaturalNews) Psychiatrists have been working on the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and, in it, they hope to add a whole slew of new psychiatric disorders. Unfortunately, many of these disorders are merely differences in personality and behavior among people. The new edition may include "disorders" like "oppositional defiant disorder", which includes people who have a pattern of "negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures." Some of the "symptoms" of this disorder including losing one's temper, annoying people and being "touchy". Other "disorders" being considered include personality flaws like antisocial behavior, arrogance, cynicism or narcissism. There are even categories for people who binge eat and children who have temper tantrums. Children are already over-diagnosed for allegedly being bipolar or having attention-deficit disorder (ADD), which results in their being prescribed dangerous antipsychotic drugs. To categorize even more childhood behaviors as psychiatric disorders will only further increase the number of children who will be needlessly prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Each new revision of DSM has included controversial new additions, and this newest version is no exception. In fact, the manual has increased considerably in size over the years. What is most disturbing about the current proposed revisions is the blatantly brave, new way in which so-called medical professionals are viewing individual characteristics. Children who exhibit unique eccentricities in accordance with their unique personalities, in general, would be categorized as having a mental illness. If this criteria had been used in past centuries to diagnose illness, there may have never been people like Mozart or Einstein who ventured outside the norm and came up with new or unique ideas. A Washington Post article captured the essence of this concept perfectly in the following quote: "If seven-year-old Mozart tried composing his concertos today, he might be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and medicated into barren normality." The perception that character differences are somehow a psychic illnesses not only absolves individuals of personal responsibility, but it takes away their unique personhood. It reduces people into subjects that cannot think for themselves, but rather have to be controlled through drugs. Which brings us to perhaps the biggest thrust behind the DSM revisions: the drug companies. Pharmaceutical companies stand to gain a lot for having virtually every person categorized as mentally ill and in need of drugs. A more accurate approach to the situation is to assess the psychiatrists and drug lords who are contriving such nonsense as being the true possessors of mental illness. Perhaps these people are the ones that need to be institutionalized.
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#1. To: christine (#0)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
I have a serious problem with this one. I know a woman, now 49, who was diagnosed as bipolar at 25. I've known her since she was 23, and she does appear to really be bipolar. It is a devastating disease. On the other hand, I've met people whose psychiatrists said were bipolar, and they're not, not even close. I know what it's like to deal with these people. And what do these psychiatrists do to people who they decide is bipolar, even when they're not? Stuff them full of drugs. That's their answer to everything.
“No amount of reason, evidence, logic or rational argument will ever convince the true believer otherwise.”
Other "disorders" being considered include personality flaws like antisocial behavior, arrogance, cynicism or narcissism. This brings back memories. I took the MMPI test some years ago. I saw the results summary. It was interesting. It said I was within the top 3% or 5% of the population when it comes to intelligence, which immediately brought into question the validity of that test. Either that or most people really are more stupid than I am. It also said that I have most of the "symptoms" listed above, plus the "tendency to reinvent the wheel". I choose to embrace my insanity. Who needs drugs? This world is enough of a trip as it already is. .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Live free or PERFECT EXAMPLE! God, I've been searching for that "one case" to demonstrate to stupid helicopter parents exactly what it is they are doing to otherwise brilliant children when they get them on psych drugs. The article...well... Ever play the game Starcraft? This sounds like the beginnings to that game. It also sounds exactly, exactly like what the Soviets did. Don't like Uncle Joe? Why, you must have a mental illness, to the gulags with you!
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
Yeah, in college I pegged out extreme in the highly analytical area, and was a perfect balance of philosopher and engineer/scientist (forgive me if I don't recall the exact words used, I took this infernal thing in the early 1990's). My intelligence was...well it was. And of course, since my automatic reaction to any unwarranted authority directed at me is a middle finger (my wife is perpetually embarrassed, especially if we're around "authority" figures or locations, where I proudly display my second arrow firing finger), I suspect that a mental ward is in my future. Assuming I don't flip them off and open fire.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
I took the MMPI once, and they asked me not to leave the room. Managed to get out through a heating duct. Been living under an assumed name since.
I see psyops everywhere.
that's the attitude ;)
Thank God for McGuyver shows, I say. Does that provide much cover for rain? How are the heating bills? Most people usually go for bridges rather than names when choosing new locations to live under, you thought outside the box. Bully for you! :)
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
LOL ! That's excellent... ehehe
Yeah. It's not as if I ever want them to like me. It's interesting to see where we all see this heading. I never would have thought I'd have to add shrinks to my "they've been naughty" list for possible "future consideration". Our FF must be spinning in their graves at that list. It also sounds exactly, exactly like what the Soviets did. Don't like Uncle Joe? Why, you must have a mental illness, to the gulags with you! You hit the nail on the head with that. IIRC they really were classified as being mentally ill for not loving uncle joe. .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Live free or Which brings us to perhaps the biggest thrust behind the DSM revisions: the drug companies. Pharmaceutical companies stand to gain a lot for having virtually every person categorized as mentally ill and in need of drugs. A more accurate approach to the situation is to assess the psychiatrists and drug lords who are contriving such nonsense as being the true possessors of mental illness. Perhaps these people are the ones that need to be institutionalized. hear, hear, to all the above. I wonder if people in that field are inherently whack-jobs. I took a psychology class in college one year, for which I had THREE different professors, one after the other. We'd come in to class one day and find the prof had been committed to a mental institution. Yes, this happened three times in one year. My mother came upon one of them leaping gleefully up and down in a trash dumpster the night before that one was committed. =========== PSYCHIATRISTS: THE MEN BEHIND HITLER "...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
That's interesting. I'm in the top 1/2% percentile when it comes to intelligence, and I know for a fact that there are a lot of dumb people on this planet. Even those who come off as smart, are still pretty goddamned dumb. You can be intelligence, but if you lack the ability to problem solve, and think objectively, you're just another tard that's going to join the herd at the first sign of problems. That's the problem with judging yourself by the standards of other people. As far as taking any mental health evaluations, I've taken a couple personality tests for some jobs that I worked. I'm your type A personality. A as in Asshole. A as in, Am Far Smarter Than The Tards You Want To Hire. A, as in Advanced Past Your Slack Jawed Primated Ass. Being a Type A personality means, that chances are you're always going to disagree, or find new ways to solve old problems. More importantly, you're going to be most likely a damned good leader and have the ability to do things without someone holding your hand. Take it for what it is PSUSA. You're not a fucking sheep bro, and be damned glad for it. The day you start bleating along with the chorus, is the day you cease to be who you are.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
#2. To: christine (#0)
for allegedly being bipolar
#3. To: christine (#0)
The new edition may include "disorders" like "oppositional defiant disorder", which includes people who have a pattern of "negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures." Some of the "symptoms" of this disorder including losing one's temper, annoying people and being "touchy".
CHIMPOUT!
die kill ~~ Me
God is a separatist. That's good enough for me.
#4. To: christine (#0)
"If seven-year-old Mozart tried composing his concertos today, he might be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and medicated into barren normality."
#5. To: PSUSA (#3)
#6. To: PSUSA (#3)
#7. To: PSUSA (#3)
I choose to embrace my insanity. Who needs drugs? This world is enough of a trip as it already is.
#8. To: randge (#6)
Managed to get out through a heating duct.
Been living under an assumed name since.
#9. To: randge (#6)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#10. To: SonOfLiberty (#4)
this
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#11. To: christine, SonOfLiberty, all (#7)
CHIMPOUT!
die kill ~~ Me
God is a separatist. That's good enough for me.
#12. To: christine (#0)
The perception that character differences are somehow a psychic illnesses not only absolves individuals of personal responsibility, but it takes away their unique personhood. It reduces people into subjects that cannot think for themselves, but rather have to be controlled through drugs.
#13. To: PSUSA (#3)
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