Good to see many of the psychiatrists who worked for the KGB have found gainful employment here in the good old USA.
So we will not be relocated to Gulags.
It will be Hospitals for the re-education of the ODD people.
Perhaps we should all get Tee-Shirts that say I am O.D.D. and proud of it.
Jesus Christ, Ghandi, and MLK would all qualify. I do so love being in good company.
One O.D.D. Gunner
The DSM-IV does not say that anyone who questions or disobeys authority figures is mentally ill.
It regards a pathological attitude in which an individual only acknowledges authority if the authority rules in that person's favor and ignores or attacks authority figures if they are ruled against.
There is an enormous difference between the mind that disobeys an illegal order or an unjust law as a reasoned act of civil engagement, and the mind that believes that no laws or rules apply to him and that he is free to disobey any authority or break any law if he feels he is being personally inconvenienced.
A normal person realizes that sometimes a law can be beneficial to the community and to himself as a whole, but can simultaneously be onerous or burdensome to him at this particular point in time.