Posted on 06/13/2011 6:10:37 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
Remember Catch-22: You can’t be crazy if you think you are.
So a woman gets raped, or a guy comes back from combat, and their brain scans are normal but they have all the symptoms of PTSD, which proceeds to destroy their personal relationships with family and friends, cause loss of jobs, and perhaps alcohol and drug abuse and suicide.
What are they then, just losers?
How about a teenager held on the floor at gunpoint by screaming cops who threw grenades into their house and assaulted their parents, only to be told, as their smashed door swings on it's hinges, that they got the wrong house? When they then have perfect brain scans, but increasing trouble in school, then flunk out and spiral into depression, what are they - losers?
Or how about things that are seemingly less traumatic to most, but very traumatic to few - what are they, statistical rejects we don't have to listen to?
Oh but hey, a bunch of shrinks are corrupt, so let's throw out the whole field of psychology.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
:: spit ::
The epidemic is the BIG MEDICAL making up new diseases we all have so that they can “treat” them forever.
What would all the shrinks and docs do if there weren’t ever more new diseases and mental issues to treat?
Hell many shrinks are themselves seeing shrinks.
And of course you don’t know anything about anything if you are not a doctor yourself. Condescending bastards.
This is why you never go see a shrink. Liberal = gun hater = find anything to say you are unstable OR lie and say so ==> no more 2A rights for you
Since psychology went off the tracks (ie pop society consensus) in 1973 caving into homosexuals, there is no frigging way you should trust any of them. Now if you have a problem with homosexuality and are disgusted by it, now they say YOU have a disorder.
Enough for me not to trust anything they’re telling you. Their foundations are not sound.
Mental Illness is hereditary, you get it from your children. hee hee hee
I don’t consider any of those people to be losers. I just think there are other options besides a diagnosis of mental illness.
I read it as situational. A veteran, or anyone who has experienced extreme duress will certainly have “issues” long after the fact, but that isn’t mental illness per say-It’s a natural response to a specific set of events. Mental “illness” is something like schizophrenia which is partly genetic, runs in families, and has no “event” onset.
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