Posted on 05/23/2013 8:50:54 AM PDT by Old Sarge
Entirely correct.
This is exactly why people who genuinely need help avoid seeking it or making themselves known. This includes military personnel and civilians Ive encountered.
My advice especially if you value your job or your professional esteem is: Dont see a therapist; dont mention your psychology to your doctor one innocent comment is all it takes before a medical professional takes it upon himself to recommend a specialist or treatment for a problem fabricated by pseudo-academics and lucky-dipped straight from the DSM.
If you are tolerant of the prospect of our country assimilating and propagating totalitarian values, then let your doctor direct and control your approach to your own health. You are at liberty to give away your power - but dont be surprised when you find yourself devoid of liberties.
the DSM is no longer a valid work of science. (has not for so some time)
It has crossed the rubicon into junk science.
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Correct. Thanks for a voice of sanity, and very good examples given to make the distinction.
I recommend people staying away from the shtf site -- sensational garbage like a worse version of National Enquirer.
Unless you encounter a psychiatrist version of Lois Lerner -- and there surely are a few -- ordinary mental health professionals are not going to be using the new DSM guidelines against patients, conservative or otherwise. The bad apples would have done it even with the old guidelines.
There is a simple cure for all this-—just put mortal fear in your friendly neighborhood shrink.
This is the only thing that I have read that explains the polls regarding satisfaction with obama. Unfortunately, the lunatics ARE running the asylum.
50 percent is believable.
40 something percent voted for Obama, which you have to be insane to do....
Is half the population crazy? Well, if it weren’t, we wouldn’t be in the crap heap we are in....
Sorry but hate is a sign of mental illness. Turn yourself in for re-grooving. I will join you because I hate them too.
Most psychs dont take the thorough approach that you do and this is exactly why people who genuinely need help avoid seeking it or making themselves known.
(Including military personnel and civilians in service whom Ive encountered.)
This is why people are so worried -and theyve a right to be.
For example, for those with ptsd, accepting a diagnosis is much more than facing yourself. It is essentially the prospect of giving away your capacity as a citizen; in court and in society. For many, this is loosing the freedom you fought for.
If you think you might be a danger to others, it is your responsibility to hand yourself to professional care; but what you do with yourself is your own business.
To everyone else: If you are tolerant of the prospect of our country assimilating and propagating totalitarian values, then let your therapist/psych direct and control your approach to your own health. You are at liberty to give away your power - but dont be surprised when you find yourself devoid of liberties.
Is homosexuality a listed mental disorder? I think at one time it was.
Thanks, Steve. My mother was afflicted with this in the last years of her life - there was no remedy. I used the time that she was in the hospital to clear out the rubbish. I used 40 huge black garbage bags just on the bedroom.
We can share a room!
That is...if you don’t mind living with a bass playing biker. LOL.
I wouldn’t be surprised if somewhere in the manual is a diagnosis that disapproval of homosexuality is a mental illness.
Don’t worry. Once there’s a Republican president again, distrust of the government will be instantly removed from the crazy books and put back on the Cool Kids list.
Or you will simply hide your guns.
Sure, guns are planned to be on the list, but the ultimate goal is Christianity. Islam will be OK/exempt, but outlawing Christianity is what they really want.
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