Posted on 06/13/2005 7:11:09 PM PDT by neverdem
This stuff makes me crazy!
Watching the gradual increase in the number of classifications of mental disease is driving me nuts.
Great minds think alike.
Haa haa haa haa haa!!! Hee hee hee hee heeeee!!! I am Napoleon, and YOU can't do anything about it!!!!
Yes they do.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.
"Haa haa haa haa haa!!! Hee hee hee hee heeeee!!! I am Napoleon, and YOU can't do anything about it!!!!"
Not true. I can try to get a federal grant to study and 'treat' you. That is, after all the point of all this. You declare you're mentally ill, you get some sort of disability determination, and you get free money from the gummint. To quote the learned Sally Brown, "All I want is what I have coming to me. All I want is my fair share."
I love Stupid Pet Tricks...
Stochastically® speaking, those look like no substantial changes over the last two decades.
I was going to make a joke about this, but how can I top Howard Dean?
I trust shrinks less then I trust lawyers.
If you see a shrink at one end of the hall and a lawyer at the other end of the hall, run toward the lawyer.
On the other hand, if the lawyer and shrink have teemed up on you and there is an iron maiden nearby, run into the iron maiden and shut the door firmly.
If there is no iron maiden around, act as crazy as possible. Shrinks and lawyers working together can only really victimize sane people, if they think you're actually crazy, there's a chance they'll leave you be.
Oh yeah? Well my dog just told me that my real name is Xorq and I am the supreme ruler of the Andromeda galaxy! So take that, little earthling. Now where is my medicine? Oops, the dog ate it.
"Mental illness" is largely a matter of who's doing the defining. During the heyday of Communism anyone who didn't toe the Party line could easily find himself in a "mental health hospital." The dominant group usually has the power of confinement over any anti-establishment figure who crosses normative boundaries.
Certainly there are genuine psychotics and neurotics who pose hazards to themselves and others. That's real mental illness. But outfits like the American Pyschological Association have entered the field of politics and pose a huge danger, redefining mental illness along politically correct lines; as do the type of social workers who brought us terrifying travesties such as the McMartin Preschool disaster. This is very scary stuff.
Thanks for the ping. Interesting topic.
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