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The DSM, an instrument to identify and help heal disorders of the mind, it has morphed as to both form and function. Too often, psychiatrists wield the DSM-IV-TR like a blunt instrument, desperate in their drive to assign names to supposed "mental conditions" and thus to be able to assign numbers to these "conditions." Discover a new widely inclusive "condition," give it a name and number and you have a winner: One more brick in the wall of "sicknesses".
LIFE is Not a Mental Disorder
Seeded on Tue Jul 13, 2010 3:49 PM EDT
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In its entirety, all 952 pages, there is no "No Disorder" option. Therefore, everyone is seen by DSM-IV-TR as sick, the only question being from which sickness(es) they suffer.
And it isn't because they actually think people are "sick".
These "diseases" are purely and simply various ways to make money from observed and categorized common behaviors in people. Some worse than others, arguably and some may have a more dramatic effect on people but they AREN'T scientifically identifiable as pathology.
BEHAVIOR(S) CAN'T BE A DISEASE.
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