[OldArmy94]

I don't think we realize the full ramifications of this potential decision. It will provide a circumvention of First Amendment rights in a way that has never been seen before. ANY "undesired" behavior can be made "pathological" and THAT is the beginning of the end.

[gidget7]

You're right, it is very frightening indeed. Because there is no oversight, no system of checks and balances, just a vote by the "APA" and these days, they are a bunch of psychologically impaired homosexuals themselves. The ones that are not, look at any and all disorders that invent, just another money making venture! More meds, more patients to administer those meds too, more appointments with these "patients" in order to monitor the meds. In their minds, it's a one way entrance into their offices, and this is one of the main problems with health care.

There is no one who says to the APA, that it's junk science, that they are a bunch of quacks, there just isn't.

[MillerCreek]

Exactly. I've written about this before, elsewhere on FR...but the goal of "psychiatry" under socialism is to prove "unwell, diseased" anyone or any perspective that does not replicate the social meme. It happened in the Soviet Union, it's happened in Cuba under Castro, it's likely to be happening in South America given Castro's commisserations with Chavez in militarized "health care" (military personnel functioning as "physicians" on "aid" missions among other countries, which Castro prides himself in fostering).

The goal of socialized medicine, unfortunately, eventually seeks to "prescribe socialism" by way of wellness or lack thereof.

Yet another reason to revile Hillary, Howard, Kerry and Kennedy.