except queers... they are normal according to them
Posted on 07/31/2010 5:11:02 PM PDT by decimon
LONDON (Reuters) – An updated edition of a mental health bible for doctors may include diagnoses for "disorders" such as toddler tantrums and binge eating, experts say, and could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal.
Leading mental health experts gave a briefing on Tuesday to warn that a new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is being revised now for publication in 2013, could devalue the seriousness of mental illness and label almost everyone as having some kind of disorder.
Citing examples of new additions like "mild anxiety depression," "psychosis risk syndrome," and "temper dysregulation disorder," they said many people previously seen as perfectly healthy could in future be told they are ill.
"It's leaking into normality. It is shrinking the pool of what is normal to a puddle," said Til Wykes of the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London.
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Mud puddle ping.
Homosexuals and transgenders are considered normal these days.
40 years ago homosexuality was considered a mental illness as was transgenderism or whatever that is.
Ask which you?
Normal is overrated.
(Hi Decimon, good post!)
If you want to wrap your brain around something, wrap it around this... “Everybody, regardless of affliction, is doing their best.” Think about it.
The distinction lives in how everyone judges everyone else.
The DSM has been devaluing the seriousness of mental illness for a long time. I think that the current fad of diagnosing hyperactive kids as having ADD and using that as an excuse to drug them (instead of teaching them to take advantage of and succeed with their personality type) is a prime example of that. We also have the phenomenon of classifying kids who are normal but different than other kids as having "autism spectrum disorder." When the definition of normal becomes so narrow as to exclude almost everyone, then the very real problem of dealing with mental illness is lost.
I think there are two major contributing factors: the psychiatric/psychologic professions want more business (there are many more people majoring in psychology than there will ever be jobs for psych majors), and so many people want to be victims of something; being a victim of mental illness fulfills that desire.
Being normal is a disorder. Fortunately, it’s very rare.
SIGH
It seems to me that the idea that “we all have disorders” and “that there is no such thing as normal” may lead to a bonanza for incompetent or unethical practitioners.
Eric Berne, a psychiatrist who became well known in the 60’s for his popular book “Games People Play”, said that many neurotics who seek psychiatric help did so not to be cured, but to learn how to be a “better neurotic”. A good psychiatrist would want to cure someone’s dysfunctional behavior by fighting what’s in his head, rather than playing along by helping the patient to blame our “racist”, “sexist” society , or whatever his game is.
According to Berne, many patients would tend to leave in search of a psychiatrist who would humor his neurosis. So a good psychiatrist must be skilled in keeping him around long enough to help him.
I forsee an ever growing group of people with “government jobs” aka Disability checks.
“Being normal is a disorder.”
Ain’t that the truth. These days DHS says they are terrorists.
except queers... they are normal according to them
not true... homosexuals will always be considered “normal” by these idiots.
...could devalue the seriousness of mental illness and label almost everyone as having some kind of disorder...
...and in need of prescription drugs.
Hint: Follow the money.
...many people previously seen as perfectly healthy could in future be told they are ill.
Whatever it takes to prevent people from legally keeping and bearing arms, right?
Eric Berne, a psychiatrist who became well known in the 60’s for his popular book “Games People Play”, said that many neurotics who seek psychiatric help did so not to be cured, but to learn how to be a “better neurotic”. A good psychiatrist would want to cure someone’s dysfunctional behavior by fighting what’s in his head, rather than playing along by helping the patient to blame our “racist”, “sexist” society , or whatever his game is.According to Berne, many patients would tend to leave in search of a psychiatrist who would humor his neurosis. So a good psychiatrist must be skilled in keeping him around long enough to help him.
Consider for a moment how self-diagnosis via internet "research" has contributed to reinforcment of the mainstreaming of these artifical "disorders".
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