Psychiatrists have been working on the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and, in it, they hope to add a whole slew of new psychiatric disorders. Unfortunately, many of these disorders are merely differences in personality and behavior among people.
The new edition may include "disorders" like "oppositional defiant disorder", which includes people who have a pattern of "negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures." Some of the "symptoms" of this disorder including losing one's temper, annoying people and being "touchy".'
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So, having an independent opinion and not following the crowd is now seen as a mental disorder....LOL
ReplyDeleteI suppose the authors of the report themselves have a mental disorder of wanting to be in control and rule over people. The problem these days is that there are too many damn nosey people who want to dictate how people should live their lives, telling us what to eat, watch, wear and so on.
Long live independent thinking. I mean who wants to be a robot? How boring would that be?
Besides, losing your temper is a natural emotion just like laughing is.
So, if someone gets on your nerves and winds you up on purpose, I suppose you have to keep quiet for fear of being labelled as a nutter.
What these layabouts really want to concentrate on is the chemicals in the foods that cause these so called mental problems in the first place. So many people are dying of cancer nowadays. A man I met on my travels a few months ago told me that his nephew's son who was 7 years old died of cancer a few months ago.
Twenty yers ago and longer, it was virtually unheard of for a child to die of cancer, tumours etc.