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Good to know I'm not the only one that thinks half the diagnoses out there bogus. Something about that article kinda reminds me of the book, "A Brave New World", where people weren't allowed any sort of deviation from the norm....Makes me wonder where we are headed?Comment
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Where we are headed? Just look where we have been. The American Psychiatric Association only removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1973.
What is truly crazy to me is that society has allowed the use this book as a diagnostic tool in the first place.Comment
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this book for diagnosis should be thrown out, last year there was a very interesting talk on Bio hacking, shocking that i cannot remember the person but he spoke about things raised here, in regards to people such as Mozart would be drugged in todays times, and it is so very true and so very scary.
I tend to keep quite on my beliefs in regard to the over medication of disorders of the mind, but i really believe it is a huge problem, the long term side affects of SSRI etc are not something we should be offering to people who before a BOOKS publication would not of required them.
while I will never say there is NO need for such medication, i think there is a far greeter need for understanding..
oh and most normal people where i work, labeling me as crazy, reassures me that im doing ok!Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
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I think that the underlying issue is that researchers have run out of interesting things to look into, or are maybe just going for the low hanging fruit. This is more than likely being helped by the drug companies trying to increase sales and helping with the funding of the research via direct or indirect ways.
I think you also seem to get a flavour of the month style of social/mental disorders, such as Asperger syndrome, which 85% of the people I know appear to have after visiting their doctors.Insert funny sig here
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Pharma-psychiatry is basically modernised witchdoctor practice.Comment
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I'd rather be weird than boring any day.Comment
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well lets see. im cant be crazy, why?
i havn`t ended up on th megans law website, trolled for kids on any site(facebook myspace)
gotten a dui. killed a family member, hit a woman, made out with highwiz!
killed any citizen. heard voices in my head telling me to carry a book to the west!
never been on add/adhd meds, yelled at anyone who didnt deserve it.
kicked mickey mouse in the nuts(ok thats a lie)
so why should i be crazy.. hold on im gonna stare at th wall why i ponder thiseveryday i sit here and wonder what the hell is wrong with you all!Comment
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I know I have paranoid tendencies. I have been diagnosed bipolar. I have been diagnosed plain old depressive (Which one's right? I dunno). I have occasional authority issues (which can now be labeled oppositional defiance disorder!) but those are mostly tamped down by my paranoid tendencies (What if they're watching me? Is this phone secure?). I was diagnosed ADHD in high school. Yet somehow, I still hold down a job and support a family. Wacky.
As a side note, it occurred to me that certain imbalances are most likely a plus for certain occupations.
For example, wouldn't a paranoid make a better IS/IA officer/employee?
Mel
EDIT: The "diagnoses" and the statement about a job and a family were a deliberate contrast between how disorderly my mind apparently is to doctors and how normal my life is regardless of how broken they tell me I am.SecretaryComment
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So let me guess, both Ghandi, Socrates, and even Jesus Christ were nothing but tragic untreated cases of "oppositional defiance disorder." pfft.Comment
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To an extent, absolutely.
I do think the argument can be made that a large portion (perhaps the majority) of people who voluntarily seek out a psychiatrist and go on medication do, in fact, need some kind of chemical intervention. For most psychiatrists worth their salt - at least in the Boston area - medication is either a supplement to treatment, or a last resort; not a substitute for care.
That doesn't change the fact that even big pharmas admit that they don't really know why or how a lot of these drugs work, exactly. That's a pretty huge WTF.
(Full disclosure: I was on adderall for most of my childhood, and am dealing with severe anxiety as an adult.)
(Hi, by the way.)Comment
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Out of curiosity, if someone's behavior is annoying to other people, then couldn't it be argued that the people who are annoyed are being "touchy"? Thus, both parties involved have the disorder. I see a black hole forming...Some of the "symptoms" of this disorder including losing one's temper, annoying people and being "touchy".
Coming from a point of confessed ignorance about the book, is there a governing body that controls what is put in there? And is there any reason why anyone gives a shit what these people have to say? For example, if they put down that anyone who frequently lost or misplaced items of significance (such as house keys) suffers from some crazy disorder, is there any group that would step in and tell them that they are all mentally retarded?Comment
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnos...ntal_Disorders
yes, the American Psychiatric Association.
Yes, because "clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and policy makers" all use it to determine what is and isn't a mental disorder.
It's basically the dictionary, and what it says defines how most people view mental disorders in the USA.Last edited by YenTheFirst; August 5, 2010, 08:35.It's not stupid, it's advanced.Comment
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