"If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill", Report Finds

ZeroHedge.com ^ | 21 January, 2015 | Anonymous

[Rockitz]

This post is about an issue that is by now a bit dated (though the topic as such certainly isn’t), but we have only just become aware of it and it seemed to us worth rescuing it from the memory hole. In late 2013, the then newest issue of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM for short) defined a new mental illness, the so-called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD.

As TheMindUnleashed.org informs us, the definition of this new mental illness essentially amounts to declaring any non-conformity and questioning of authority as a form of insanity. According to the manual, ODD is defined as:

[…] an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.

In short, as Natural News put it: According to US psychiatrists, only the sheeple are sane.

Every time a new issue of the DSM appears, the number of mental disorders grows – and this growth is exponential. A century ago there were essentially 7 disorders, 80 years ago there were 59, 50 years ago there were 130, and by 2010 there were 374 (77 of which were “found” in just seven years). A prominent critic of this over-diagnosing (and the associated over-medication trend) is psychologist Dr. Paula Caplan.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Coming to 0.00bama’s Amerika soon.

[Karl Spooner]

It is all about to get the majority to believe the lies. Then....

Luke 21:16
And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

[aimhigh]

According to the manual, ODD is defined as: […] an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.

Of course, this only applies during Democratic administrations.

[OneWingedShark]

I think I should bulk order some Vodka and start learning some black humor.

I have a working-theory that alcohol consumption goes up under authoritarian states because (a) it's something that the person can control, and (b) it can sometimes deaden the pain of injustice.

So it might be a wise investment to bulk order vodka.
As for black humor… is coping mechanism, ja?

[PAR35]

These are the same incompetent fools that think queers are normal.

[Terry L Smith]

I was taught that a Mssr. Thomas Jefferson stated to question everything, and that was in the ‘60’s.

[AlaskaErik]

Nazi war criminals could have used this guy on their side in 1946.

[right way right]

Back in the old days your were cool if you had a “Question Authority” bump sticker.

Now, you might get shot in the face.

[dfwgator]

I guess Dissent isn’t Patriotic anymore.

[right way right]

Haa! She did say that!
Lock her up.
Oh, yeah what goes around comes around.

[right way right]

You can’t put that on your car, you will get shot in the face.

[Disambiguator]

Ah, the term “deniers”. I seem to recall some people in academia calling for the medication and/or institutionalization of “global warming deniers”.

And all along here I though deniers were a measure of ballistic nylon, not a mental illness. It's hard to keep up.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s settled science, those who demanded that you “question authority” in the 60s and 70s are now the establishment and they won’t tolerate your attitude, disrespect, or challenge to their authority.

“To the gulags, I mean loony bins!”

[a fool in paradise]

Incidentally, this is just too reminiscent of Soviet “psychiatry”, which dictated that those who question communism are mentally ill.

If you ONLY KNEW what Communism REALLY IS you'd bow down and hope that you could live under such rule... < /paraphrase of Hanoi Jane Hilton quote >

[a fool in paradise]

Question the authority of those demanding you to question authority.

Go ahead and question everything, for instance, If we toss out the Constitution and our democratically elected republic, what would fill the void?

[a fool in paradise]

Don’t trust anyone under 30

I don't trust anyone with a D after his or her name.

[a fool in paradise]

“Sharing” a bottle of vodka with your oppressive overlords can also lower their guard as you "enjoy" their camaraderie.

Of course, if you are drinking shots of water while they are drinking shots of vodka, you will soon have the upper hand in the situation.

[GeronL]

dissent is only patriotic when the other guys win the White House apparently

[trebb]

Assuming this is supposed to foster "progressivism" it is quite ironic - it lays the blame for many "racist" shootings right in the lap of the "victims". It also condemns the riots/demonstrations, etc., as the lunatic response by the mentally ill.

Great shades of Hillary's rant about how it ain't unpatriotic to question the president....

[rollo tomasi]

So Statists shrinks convoluted themselves by declaring every single government (Including the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and other socialists entities that replaced a previous system boys and girls) created in the history of the world came from insane human beings.



These shrinks are not clever at all; a very idiotic thesis.