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  • Money and Madness

    06/14/2002 1:37:47 PM PDT · by rapsux · 8 replies · 283+ views
    Insight Magazine ^ | June 3, 2002 | Kelly Patricia O'Meara
    A child who doesn't like doing math homework may be diagnosed with the mental illness developmental-arithmetic disorder (No.315.4). A child who argues with her parents may be diagnosed as having a mental illness called oppositional-defiant disorder (No.313.8). And people critical of the legislation now snaking through Congress that purports to "end discrimination against patients seeking treatment for mental illness" may find themselves labeled as being in denial and diagnosed with the mental illness called noncompliance-with-treatment disorder (No.15.81). The psychiatric diagnoses suggested above are no joke. They represent a few of the more than 350 "mental disorders" listed in the American...