Natural News – by Jonathan Benson
Modern psychiatry has become a hotbed of corruption, particularly the kind that seeks to demonize and declare mentally ill anyone who deviates from what is regarded as the norm. This is abundantly evident in the latest installment of the industry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, which dubs people who do not conform to what those in charge declare to be normal as mentally insane.
The so-called “condition” for why a person might choose to resist conformity has been labeled by the psychiatric profession as “oppositional defiant disorder,” or ODD. The new DSM defines this made-up disease as an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” and also lumps it in alongside attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, another made-up condition whose creator, Dr. Leon Eisenberg, admitted it to be phony on his death bed.
As you might suspect from this type of open-ended description, almost any personal behavior perceived by someone else to be undesirable or strange might be categorized as symptomatic of ODD. Children who throw temper tantrums or fight with their siblings, for instance, might be declared to have this supposed mental illness, as might children who express disagreement with their parents or teachers.
Disobedience and defiance are common behaviors among young children, and parents have long dealt with such behaviors by exercising proper discipline. At the same time, not all forms of disobedience and defiance are wrong, depending on the authority involved and the action petitioned. A child who is told by his teacher to keep his unpopular opinions to himself, for instance, and who resists this order might simply be exercising his freedom to express disagreement.
But that’s the problem with categorizing conditions like ODD so loosely, as virtually any uncommon behavior can be declared to be oppositional or defiant simply because it bucks the status quo. Famous minds of the past like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, for instance, whose unconventional ideas might have seemed crazy in their day, are the types of folks who today might be declared to have ODD or some other type of mental disease.
An even greater danger to using this subjective approach in the diagnosis of mental illness is that it threatens to curtail freedom of speech and political dissent. The federal government has already tried to declare those who oppose its tyrannical policies, or who simply question them, as having “political paranoia,” a type of mental illness.
Characterizing non-conformity as ‘mental illness’ a hallmark of totalitarian government
Such outlandish abuse of the medical system for controlling popular thought is nothing new. Many authoritarian governments, including the former USSR, implemented similar mental health programs that categorized dissenters as having chemical imbalances in need of a remedy. Today, that remedy is often mind-altering, psychotropic drugs with devastating side effects.
“Psychiatric incarceration of mentally healthy people is uniformly understood to be a particularly pernicious form of repression, because it uses the powerful modalities of medicine as tools of punishment, and it compounds a deep affront to human rights with deception and fraud,” explains a 2002 analysis and commentary on the abuse of psychiatry in both the Soviet Union and China that was published in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
“Doctors who allow themselves to be used in this way… betray the trust of society and breach their most basic ethical obligations as professionals.”
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Bahaahahaha! The government insanity continues with their “Resistance is futile” propaganda.
KISS MY ASS!!! I WILL NOT CONFORM, YOU COMMUNIST BASTARDS!!! It’s my God-given Right not to and I’ll fight to the end to make sure it stays that way!
I call my land and house and the surrounding wilderness my “sane asylum” for a reason. As for the DSM nonsense (and the DSM IS nonsense!), when I was getting my BA in Psychology I once came to the conclusion in a “group therapy” class that the professions of psychology and psychiatry was in fact designed to keep people mentally ill. My professor said, “Yes.”
So now you know the truth: psychology and psychiatry are run by PSYCHOPATHS! And it is also true that these professions are indeed trying to turn us into Psychiatric Ward patients like they did (and maybe still do) in what was once the Soviet Union.
A relative of mine worked in the psychiatry profession for 30 years, and she told me it was BS too.
Maybe it’s time to round up the psychiatrists and throw them all in a psychiatric hospital, and let the schizophrenics decide what their treatment should be.
The social sciences are all about “helping” the individual function in society. The problem lies in the fact that they cannot recognize it is not the individual that is maladjusted, society is so thoroughly corrupt, misinformed, ego centric, and confused that o conform to it is to suffer mental illness.
Pay no attention to any of them, doctors, lawyers, politicians, msm, and their sycophants are not in touch with reality and they are trying to get you to go along so their little plans succeed.
They can all go to their final resting place.
Leave it to the insane to define sanity.