“Shyness, bereavement and eccentric behavior could be classed as a mental illness...”
Well you aren’t shy anyway! But you mind be considered eccentric. I’m glad this is over in the U.K. - but I imagine it is only a matter of time till it makes it here. Like the soilders coming back with PTSD being labelled as such IIRC. :(
Will make it interesting in trying to buy a gun. Can’t try to be too discrete about it as you might be considered “shy”. But can’t be too loud and friendly either as that might be eccentric. And don’t even THINK of showing your sadness and “bereavement” when you realize you can’t afford the new $1200 model that just came it!
Also general population control/social engineering - can't have all the individuals out there can we?
Yeah. It's already there. the topic under discussion is The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association.
While the psychiatrists quoted are British, they are critical of the Manual.
An obvious clue is that no British psychiatrist/psychologist would class eccentricity as a disorder - at most it would receive the evaluation made by the Sunday Times psychological evaluation in 1967 of Robin Knox-Johnston after he announced his intention of being the first man to solo circumnavigate the world non-stop: "Disturbingly normal"
Oh oh. Am I ... mental then?