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"If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill", Report Finds
ZeroHedge.com ^ | 21 January, 2015 | Anonymous

Posted on 01/21/2015 3:39:32 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: authority; dsm; questionauthority
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Bad news for almost all FReeepers. ;o)

Only the sheeple are sane..... they're coming to take me away. Oh my!

1 posted on 01/21/2015 3:39:32 PM PST by Rockitz
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"If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill", Report Finds

I wish we wouldn't emulate EVERY single thing the Soviet Union did.

2 posted on 01/21/2015 3:40:55 PM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Rockitz
Homosexuality is no longer a mental illness, but questioning anything the feral government does is a mental illness.

Check.

3 posted on 01/21/2015 3:41:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
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To: Rockitz

“I am SICK & TIRED of those of those who call you unpatriotic when you question authority!!!”

Je Suis Hilderbeast


4 posted on 01/21/2015 3:43:02 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Rockitz

So gays respect homosexual authority? Give me break


5 posted on 01/21/2015 3:43:03 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Government loves homosexuality, exploitation and rapes of all kinds to gain recruits


6 posted on 01/21/2015 3:44:00 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Lazamataz

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


7 posted on 01/21/2015 3:44:20 PM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Rockitz

I know he’s not exactly popular here, but Glenn Beck warned about this sort of thing beginning to happen years ago.


8 posted on 01/21/2015 3:45:09 PM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: Lazamataz

“I wish we wouldn’t emulate EVERY single thing the Soviet Union did.”

At this point, I’d be game for getting the free bottle of vodka they gave for showing up and voting.


9 posted on 01/21/2015 3:45:53 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Crazieman

Oh, and stop going to the movies. In Russian movies, everyone dies.


10 posted on 01/21/2015 3:45:54 PM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Rockitz

Just like in the Soviet Union.


11 posted on 01/21/2015 3:46:00 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Rockitz

RE: “If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill”, Report Finds

And if you NEVER question authority and simply follow like a sheep, that makes you a ___________ (fill in the blank)


12 posted on 01/21/2015 3:46:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: Crazieman

Also chess.


13 posted on 01/21/2015 3:46:18 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Rockitz

That’s alright. I;d rather have a mental illness than be completely brain-dead and utter “hope and change” every 2 hours.


14 posted on 01/21/2015 3:46:23 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: cld51860

Beck repeats what others say. So it would be second-hand info from him.

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


15 posted on 01/21/2015 3:47:20 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Rockitz

This is sensationalism. Just because that is ONE of the symptoms of a disorder, doesn’t mean that everyone displaying that behavior has a disorder. That’s not how diagnoses work.

For example, one of the symptoms of “Antisocial Personality Disorder” (psychopathy/sociopathy) is:

“Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.”

That doesn’t mean that every criminal is a sociopath, it just means that sociopaths almost always display some criminal tendencies.


16 posted on 01/21/2015 3:48:20 PM PST by Boogieman
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In the Soviet Union, a systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place[1] and was based on the interpretation of political dissent as a psychiatric problem.[2] It was called “psychopathological mechanisms” of dissent.[3]

During the leadership of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, psychiatry was used as a tool to eliminate political opponents (”dissidents”) who openly expressed beliefs that contradicted official dogma.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union


17 posted on 01/21/2015 3:49:36 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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Yes, and I apologize for repeating the other mentions of Soviet political psychiatry here. If anything ought to completely invalidate the DSM in anyone’s mind, it ought to be this.


18 posted on 01/21/2015 3:50:13 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Rockitz
I am NOT argumentative. ABSOLUTELY NOT!! NOTNOTNOT!!!!
19 posted on 01/21/2015 3:50:26 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Rockitz
30+ years ago, these same hypocrites drove around in battered rusted out Volvos and VW's held together with these bumper stickers

Funny how they faded from the scene when Hil and Bill got elected, then they made comeback of sorts when Bush43 was in office, but since 2008, they've been rarer than an original fuel injected 57 Chevy.
20 posted on 01/21/2015 3:51:24 PM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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