"If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill", Report Finds

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-21/if-you-question-authority-you-are-mentally-ill-report-finds

Only the Sheeple Are Sane

This post is about an issue that is by now a bit dated (though the topic as such certainly isn’t), but we have only just become aware of it and it seemed to us worth rescuing it from the memory hole. In late 2013, the then newest issue of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM for short) defined a new mental illness, the so-called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD.

As TheMindUnleashed.org informs us, the definition of this new mental illness essentially amounts to declaring any non-conformity and questioning of authority as a form of insanity. According to the manual, ODD is defined as:

[…] an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.

In short, as Natural News put it: According to US psychiatrists, only the sheeple are sane.

Every time a new issue of the DSM appears, the number of mental disorders grows – and this growth is exponential. A century ago there were essentially 7 disorders, 80 years ago there were 59, 50 years ago there were 130, and by 2010 there were 374 (77 of which were “found” in just seven years). A prominent critic of this over-diagnosing (and the associated over-medication trend) is psychologist Dr. Paula Caplan. Here is an interview with her:

The article goes on to make points about how similar this is to psychiatry in the Soviet Union, the connection between money/profit and diagnosis, and makes the point that Einstein could likely have been labeled with ADD and "Oppositional-Defiant Disorder" and medicated in the modern world, which could have destroyed his ability to ever make his contributions.

However, it is important to realize that the sciences dealing with the human mind are thymological in nature and cannot make claims based on objectively measurable physical quantities. And yet, the field has turned into a “growth industry” in every respect; the number of behaviors regarded as “abnormal”, as well as the number of medications prescribed for treating such behaviors has grown exponentially. This is a dangerous development and the fact that almost every quirky personality trait is suddenly deemed a sign of disease is certainly giving one pause (it is dangerous in several respects: consider for instance the great number of mass murderers who were prescribed psychotropic drugs. Correlation is not always causation of course, but still…)

The psychopathologizing of anti-authoritarian behavior is yet another step on what looks like an increasingly slippery slope and it strikes us as especially harmful. As Dr. Levine inter alia points out: “It has been my experience that many anti-authoritarians labeled with psychiatric diagnoses usually don’t reject all authorities, simply those they’ve assessed to be illegitimate ones.”

In other words, the term “anti-authoritarian” does not necessarily stand for a blanket rejection of all authorities, but rather a healthy questioning of the legitimacy of existing authorities. This seems all the more necessary today, when governments in the name of providing all-encompassing security (a task at which they are predictably failing) are seeing fit to let individual liberty die a death of a thousand cuts.

 

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-21/if-you-question-authority-you-are-mentally-ill-report-finds

Only the Sheeple Are Sane

This post is about an issue that is by now a bit dated (though the topic as such certainly isn’t), but we have only just become aware of it and it seemed to us worth rescuing it from the memory hole. In late 2013, the then newest issue of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM for short) defined a new mental illness, the so-called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD.

As TheMindUnleashed.org informs us, the definition of this new mental illness essentially amounts to declaring any non-conformity and questioning of authority as a form of insanity. According to the manual, ODD is defined as:

[…] an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.

In short, as Natural News put it: According to US psychiatrists, only the sheeple are sane.

I had to laugh at the title, "if-you-question-authority-you-are-mentally-ill," because just the opposite seems to be true, especially today in the good ole US. Lol. Who comes up with this stuff? ODD... Give me a break.

 

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I had to laugh at the title, "if-you-question-authority-you-are-mentally-ill," because just the opposite seems to be true, especially today in the good ole US. Lol. Who comes up with this stuff? ODD... Give me a break.

Yes, it is ridiculous to even come up with such an idea, but then when you see most people accepting it or not taking notice of it, which amounts to the same, then that's a problem. It's one of those ptb's pieces for laying the groundwork for their witch hunts, and this time, on a global scale.

They "defined" the "new mental disorder" already in 2013 (and the plans for it have probably been in the oven much longer), so it's all been about incrementally establishing a "lawful" foundation for unlawfully detaining, medicating, experimenting on, and killing - even more - people. When it's "officially declared" nobody can say anything anymore, right (most of all, the authoritarians won't). Personally, I can't laugh about it, it has serious implications. It brings to mind something in Haffner's Defying Hitler, where a certain part of the population wouldn't even take Hitler and his potential for evil seriously, wouldn't even consider him worthy of attention, and instead ridiculed him. They thoroughly underestimated what he'd be capable of and then were caught napping and completely overtaken by what came to pass.

Implementations like this are of the "need-for-a-collective-outcry" actually, but, it just doesn't happen, there don't seem enough people who care, or those who recognize the inherent implications.