Abnormal Is the New Normal: Why will half of the U.S. population have a diagnosable mental disorder?

Slate ^ | April 12, 2013 | Robin S. Rosenberg

[nomad]

You got it, the commies used mental illness as a catchall to arrest,imprison or otherwise harass nonconformist entities.

OBozo and his ass-clown circus are simply laying the ground work.

[Mr. K]

A: So we can take their guns away

[VRW Conspirator]

If you want a gun you are, by definition, insane.

Yep. Some university will come out with a study that "shows" that if you desire a gun you are certifiable. They will come up with a new name like hoplifile and will start labeling and lumping criminals and good citizen together. Studies by experts will show that this is a looming problem, dontchaknow.

[Mr. K]

"You can’t have a gun if you are insane. If you want a gun you are, by definition, insane. "

DING~! DING~! DING~! We have a winner!!

[DannyTN]

Don’t forget pot use as a likely cause.

Pot’s been sold by hollywood as mostly harmless. Meanwhile MIT researches demonstrated long term pot use damages the brain in the same area that schizophrenics and bipolar people are damaged.

[kabar]

The half who didn’t vote for Obama will be diagnosed as mentally ill. Similar to what the Soviets did, political opponents of the regime will be institutionalized in mental hospitals.

[puppypusher]

Maybe it’s because the democrats are driving us crazy.They are taking away all of our civil rights and there’s nothing we can do about it,other than fight the next big civil war.

At this stage No one really wants to step over that line yet,but its coming soon.The people have no where else to go the political system and judiciary are damaged beyond repair.So who do you take your complaint to?

[sodpoodle]

****political opponents of the regime will be institutionalized in mental hospitals.****

Not exactly - they will be sent to factories and farms to produce for the leeches (the real loony ones).

[george123]

Simple. Half the country is liberal and liberalism is a mental disorder.

[Scrambler Bob]

“Yep, everyone who has ever gone to a doctor must have some sort of mental disorder, “

And anyone who hasn’t, is in denial (a different mental disorder).

The new Catch .223

[Pharmboy]

Catch 9mm

[Lancey Howard]

A caller to Rush last week brought up the very interesting theory that one reason 75% of the kids in government schools are diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, autism, etc., and placed on psycho-active drugs like Ritalin (among many other drugs, including anti-depressants) is so that one day the government can deny them, as grown-ups, “permission” to purchase firearms based on “mental health” issues.

So the reason for all the drugging of kids in the schools may go way beyond merely making life more convenient for lazy parents and lazy teachers - - it may be a long-range setup for dismantling Second Amendment rights for most people. Once that’s accomplished, those who are left with government “permission” to own firearms can be dealt with in other ways.

[sodpoodle]

By the 2016 elections we are all going to be insane;)

[rlmorel]

"...many more—more than a quarter each year—will have some diagnosable mental disorder..."

This is an easy one. The people who are creating these standards have a vested interest in increasing the population of people who might require treatment.

Secondarily, this also opens up large swaths of the entitlement population to government largesse.

Basically, more people with disabling mental conditions who can get disability or other benefits.

Note that I am not saying there should not be people who are eligible for some kind of help if they have a mental condition that really needs it. I am saying this is an intentional broadening of the definition of who needs it.

[steve86]

almost half will have a diagnosable mental illness in their lifetimes

Maybe those of us with multiple diagnosable mental disorders are skewing the statistics. lol

[Lancey Howard]

[Lancey Howard]

See post #32.

[longtermmemmory]

is is all about the record keeping and the taking of rights via “medical need”.

There is no “judicial determination” requirement.

Drs. already have a “god” complex.

[rlmorel]

I have long thought they moved the goal posts to diagnose ADHD in kids, broadening it to the point of making nearly any kid eligible for that diagnosis.

I have always thought that if I grew up today, there is 100% no doubt they would have me on some kind of behavioral medication.

I look at all my report cards (yes, I have them...my parents saved them all for me) and a recurring theme from kindergarden into high school was a “inability to exercise self control in class”. I wasn’t being a jerk (well, except for that time I lit a firecracker in French class and threw it under the chair of the kid in front of me) but I would generally not do what the teacher wanted me to do, which was sit there and absorb.

I would ask questions, make comments, sometimes talk to the kid next to me (which caused me to get paddled on two separate occasions) or not pay attention, so when I got called on, I had no idea what was going on a lot of the time. In spanish class in seventh grade, I got paddled after class for bursting out with the trademark Speedy Gonzales line “¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!”

I was just a goofy kid, I guess. And I hated Spanish class.

Nowadays, I am sure they would have me on Ritalin or something like that. (shudder)

[BitWielder1]

Lower the bar for mental illness.
Raise the bar for owning a gun.
When they meet, nobody can own a gun. That's the plan.
Except of course members of the ruling elite and their hand picked minions.