 'Dozens of mental disorders don't exist' As World Mental Health Day approaches this week, he argues that, thanks to the DSM, "countless millions" are hooked on powerful antidepressants to cure a mythical "chemical imbalance", while rates of mental disorders in children, including autism, bipolarCommentsview comments in forum You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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You're an asshole. Sorry can't help it, I have Assholes syndrome and taking medical pot to fix it.
Once that sinks in they'll have to change their approach.
Anyone who hasn't been there or gone through it but has the arrogant gall to tell someone who has to "tough it out" deserves to have their fucking face slapped off their goddamn skull.
Yeah, the entire field of psychology and psychiatry is in the Dark Ages. Most neuroscience these days points to the fact that humans have no free will, so that immediately obliterates the line between "choosing" to do something and "having a compulsion" to do something.
Once that sinks in they'll have to change their approach.
You would think it would also have to sink in to the justice system. What do we do about mens rea if there's no free will involved. I'm guessing the situation is more complicated than you make it seem here.
How about anyone who feels like telling someone with depression to "tough it out" without their medication goes and says the same thing to a diabetic about taking their insulin. Or a cancer patient with their chemo. Or an AIDS patient with their AZT. Or a person without COPD with their oxygen. Or a person in the range to be killed by a massive heart attack to not take their nitroglycerin, and have their arterial stent taken out because, y'know, only wimps need those silly things.
Anyone who hasn't been there or gone through it but has the arrogant gall to tell someone who has to "tough it out" deserves to have their fucking face slapped off their goddamn skull.
I don't think that is what the article is really about though.
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homosexuality was listed as a "sociopathic personality disorder" when the DSM was first published in 1952, and remained so until 1973. "Doctors were paid to treat it, scientists to search for its causes and cures," he writes in The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry. "Gay people themselves underwent countless therapies including electric shocks, years on the couch, behaviour modification and surrogate sex."
This sort of thing is.
That's just crazy!
You just had to know that big pharmaceutical would be involved.
In some cases I'm inclined to agree with this assumption but in others not so much.
Example. Alot of kids would be better off with a swat on the ass rather than a lifetime prescription of Ritalin that turns them into the living dead but, because a lot of the medical community have swayed by promises of quick cures and minimum cost for the health care system they've become accomplices in turning our mental health issues into big business and we're becoming over medicated in a lot of cases, which is just downright scary.
How about anyone who feels like telling someone with depression to "tough it out" without their medication goes and says the same thing to a diabetic about taking their insulin. Or a cancer patient with their chemo. Or an AIDS patient with their AZT. Or a person without COPD with their oxygen. Or a person in the range to be killed by a massive heart attack to not take their nitroglycerin, and have their arterial stent taken out because, y'know, only wimps need those silly things.
Anyone who hasn't been there or gone through it but has the arrogant gall to tell someone who has to "tough it out" deserves to have their fucking face slapped off their goddamn skull.
Same thing could be said about medicinal cannabis, but most around here would say otherwise.
How about anyone who feels like telling someone with depression to "tough it out" without their medication goes and says the same thing to a diabetic about taking their insulin. Or a cancer patient with their chemo. Or an AIDS patient with their AZT. Or a person without COPD with their oxygen. Or a person in the range to be killed by a massive heart attack to not take their nitroglycerin, and have their arterial stent taken out because, y'know, only wimps need those silly things.
Anyone who hasn't been there or gone through it but has the arrogant gall to tell someone who has to "tough it out" deserves to have their fucking face slapped off their goddamn skull.
Same thing could be said about medicinal cannabis, but most around here would say otherwise.
I don't think it's most. There's a few vocal opponents around here who don't seem to have any idea why they are opposed. Some of them even support outright legalization, but argue against it anyway.
OTI is the only one around here who is adamantly against it. But even he at times claims to be for legalization.
You would think it would also have to sink in to the justice system. What do we do about mens rea if there's no free will involved. I'm guessing the situation is more complicated than you make it seem here.
In a sense, it is built into our justice system, in that it is ostensibly designed to rehabilitate, not punish.