[That means anyone who resists government policies could be classified as insane, imprisoned in psychiatric institutions, and drugged against their will.]
Natural News 2010 May 17(NaturalNews) 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".
Other "disorders" being considered include personality
flaws like antisocial behavior, arrogance, cynicism or narcissism. Thereare even categories for people who binge eat and children who have temper tantrums.
Children are already over-diagnosed for
allegedly being bipolar or having attention-deficit disorder (ADD),
which results in their being prescribed dangerous antipsychotic drugs.
To categorize even more childhood behaviors as psychiatric disorders will only further increase the number of children who will be needlessly prescribed antipsychotic drugs.
Each new revision of DSM has
included controversial new additions, and this newest version is no exception. In fact, the manual has increased considerably in size over the years. What is most disturbing about the current proposed revisions is the blatantly brave, new way in which so-called medical professionals are viewing individual characteristics.
Children who exhibit
unique eccentricities in accordance with their unique personalities, in general, would be categorized as having a mental illness. If this criteria had been used in past centuries to diagnose illness, there may have never been people like Mozart or Einstein who ventured outside the norm and came up with new or unique ideas.
A
Washington Post
article captured the essence of this concept perfectly in the following quote:
"If seven-year-old Mozart tried composing his concertos
today, he might be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and medicated into barren normality."
The perception
that character differences are somehow a psychic illnesses not only absolves individuals of personal responsibility, but it takes away their unique personhood. It reduces people into subjects that cannot think for themselves, but rather have to be controlled through drugs.
Which
brings us to perhaps the biggest thrust behind the DSM revisions: the drug companies. Pharmaceutical companies stand to gain a lot for having virtually every person categorized as mentally ill and in need of drugs.
A
more accurate approach to the situation is to assess the psychiatrists and drug lords who are contriving such nonsense as being the true possessors of mental illness. Perhaps these people are the ones that need to be institutionalized.
Sources for this story include:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...
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