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CENSURA tramite gli PSICHIATRI! la storia si ripete
CENSURA tramite gli PSICHIATRI! la storia si ripete non più in URSS ma in USA
ma l'America è diventata una nazione nazista? oddio... hanno una marea di campi di concentramento FEMA... adesso utilizzano gli psichiatri per portare all'obbedienza il popolo... Quanto vieteranno le elezioni?
Criticare il Governo? Si, e subito dopo in Ospedale psichiatrico.
’American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) è considerata la Bibbia della psichiatria, ma soltanto nel mondo Occidentale. Gran parte delle sue classificazioni non sono accettate nel resto del mondo.
Non tanto per il grosso delle patologie, quali le sindromi duali oppure la schizofrenia, ma per alcune prese di posizione che il resto del mondo non considera scientificamente comprovate, ma frutto di applicazione di dettami ideologici.
Alcuni esempi potrebbero essere l’uso di droghe ovvero le pratiche sessuali contro natura.
Di recente, gli psichiatri americani hanno codificato una “nuova” malattia psichiatrica, denominandola “oppositional defiant disorde (ODD)“.
Seguiamo la vicenda.
Badate bene: la cosa Vi tocca in prima persona. Se infatti finiste in un Ospedale psichiatrico perché avete criticato il Governo, ebbene, lì nessuno vi starebbe a sentire.
Il primo articolo di interesse su rivista internazionale che siamo riusciti ad identificare sarebbe il seguente:
Russell A. Barkley, Gwenyth Edwards, Margaret Laneri, Kenneth Fletcher,and Lori Metevia.
Executive Functioning, Temporal Discounting, and Sense of Time in Adolescents With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD).
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 29: 541-556, 2001.
Si noti come la rivista internazionale sia di “psicologia“, non di “psichiatria“. È solo negli ultimi trent’anni che gli psicologi, di matrice culturale umanistica, sono stati cooptati nell’Occidente al rango di psichiatri, che hanno invece seguito il corso di laurea in medicina e chirurgia e la specializzazione in psichiatria. A voler essere carucci carucci sarebbe come cooptare nel novero dei fisici nucleari degli imbianchini, degnissimi nella loro arte, ma digiuni di fisica.
Si noti onoltre come il lavoro inerisca gli adolescenti.
Dopo molte peripezie, si arriva a dare dell’Odd una qualche definizione.
Ancora un po’ di tempo e l’Odd è accolto nel DSM-5: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
Utilizzo pratico.
Una volta detto che gli psicologi sono come gli psichiatri, diventa facile dire che la psicologia è psichiatria.
Il gioco è fatto. L’Odd è diventato un “disordine mentale”.
A tappe successive, come un verme che si scava le gallerie nelle ciliegie, l’élite dominante si è costruita un’ulteriore arma, molto potente. Non ha bisogno di utilizzare vie politiche, ed adesso quasi nemmeno quelle amministrative.
Tizio critica il governo? Che diamine! Quello è pazzo da legare: ha un «atteggiamento continuo di ostilità, disobbedienza e comportamento ribelle». Non è un caso politico: è un caso clinico da trattare, magari con la lobectomia.
CENSURA tramite gli PSICHIATRI! la storia si ripete non più in URSS ma in USA
ma l'America è diventata una nazione nazista? oddio... hanno una marea di campi di concentramento FEMA... adesso utilizzano gli psichiatri per portare all'obbedienza il popolo... Quanto vieteranno le elezioni?
Criticare il Governo? Si, e subito dopo in Ospedale psichiatrico.
Giuseppe Sandro Mela.
2015-01-23.
’American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) è considerata la Bibbia della psichiatria, ma soltanto nel mondo Occidentale. Gran parte delle sue classificazioni non sono accettate nel resto del mondo.
Non tanto per il grosso delle patologie, quali le sindromi duali oppure la schizofrenia, ma per alcune prese di posizione che il resto del mondo non considera scientificamente comprovate, ma frutto di applicazione di dettami ideologici.
Alcuni esempi potrebbero essere l’uso di droghe ovvero le pratiche sessuali contro natura.
Di recente, gli psichiatri americani hanno codificato una “nuova” malattia psichiatrica, denominandola “oppositional defiant disorde (ODD)“.
Seguiamo la vicenda.
Badate bene: la cosa Vi tocca in prima persona. Se infatti finiste in un Ospedale psichiatrico perché avete criticato il Governo, ebbene, lì nessuno vi starebbe a sentire.
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Tappa numero 1.Il primo articolo di interesse su rivista internazionale che siamo riusciti ad identificare sarebbe il seguente:
Russell A. Barkley, Gwenyth Edwards, Margaret Laneri, Kenneth Fletcher,and Lori Metevia.
Executive Functioning, Temporal Discounting, and Sense of Time in Adolescents With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD).
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 29: 541-556, 2001.
Si noti come la rivista internazionale sia di “psicologia“, non di “psichiatria“. È solo negli ultimi trent’anni che gli psicologi, di matrice culturale umanistica, sono stati cooptati nell’Occidente al rango di psichiatri, che hanno invece seguito il corso di laurea in medicina e chirurgia e la specializzazione in psichiatria. A voler essere carucci carucci sarebbe come cooptare nel novero dei fisici nucleari degli imbianchini, degnissimi nella loro arte, ma digiuni di fisica.
Si noti onoltre come il lavoro inerisca gli adolescenti.
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Tappa numero 2.Dopo molte peripezie, si arriva a dare dell’Odd una qualche definizione.
«Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is defined by the DSM-5 as a pattern of angry/irritable behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least 6 months, and is exhibited during interaction with at least one individual that is not a sibling. Individuals must display four symptoms from one of the following categories: angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness. Unlike children with conduct disorder (CD), children with oppositional defiant disorder are not aggressive towards people or animals, do not destroy property, and do not show a pattern of theft or deceit. A diagnosis of ODD cannot be given if the child presents with conduct disorder». [Fonte. Non citiamo fonti tecniche per non appesantire troppo il discorso].
Si noti come si parli dapprima in senso lato senza menzionare l’età di insorgenza, quindi si restringa il campo ai soli bambini, come letteratura avrebbe indicato.
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Tappa numero 3.Ancora un po’ di tempo e l’Odd è accolto nel DSM-5: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.
«Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders.
The chapter on disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders is new to DSM-5. It brings together disorders that were previously included in the chapter “Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence” (i.e., oppositional defiant disorder; conduct disorder; and disruptive behavior disorder not otherwise specified, now categorized as other specified and unspecified disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders) and the chapter “Impulse-Control Disorders Not Otherwise Specified” (i.e., intermittent explosive disorder, pyromania, and kleptomania). These disorders are all characterized by problems in emotional and behavioral self-control. Because of its close association with conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder has dual listing in this chapter and in the chapter on personality disorders. Of note, ADHD is frequently comorbid with the disorders in this chapter but is listed with the neurodevelopmental disorders.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
Four refinements have been made to the criteria for oppositional defiant disorder. First, symptoms are now grouped into three types: angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, and vindictiveness. This change highlights that the disorder reflects both emotional and behavioral symptomatology. Second, the exclusion criterion for conduct disorder has been removed. Third, given that many behaviors associated with symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder occur commonly in normally developing children and adolescents, a note has been added to the criteria to provide guidance on the frequency typically needed for a behavior to be considered symptomatic of the disorder. Fourth, a severity rating has been added to the criteria to reflect research showing that the degree of pervasiveness of symptoms across settings is an important indicator of severity.» [Fonte].
The chapter on disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders is new to DSM-5. It brings together disorders that were previously included in the chapter “Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence” (i.e., oppositional defiant disorder; conduct disorder; and disruptive behavior disorder not otherwise specified, now categorized as other specified and unspecified disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders) and the chapter “Impulse-Control Disorders Not Otherwise Specified” (i.e., intermittent explosive disorder, pyromania, and kleptomania). These disorders are all characterized by problems in emotional and behavioral self-control. Because of its close association with conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder has dual listing in this chapter and in the chapter on personality disorders. Of note, ADHD is frequently comorbid with the disorders in this chapter but is listed with the neurodevelopmental disorders.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
Four refinements have been made to the criteria for oppositional defiant disorder. First, symptoms are now grouped into three types: angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, and vindictiveness. This change highlights that the disorder reflects both emotional and behavioral symptomatology. Second, the exclusion criterion for conduct disorder has been removed. Third, given that many behaviors associated with symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder occur commonly in normally developing children and adolescents, a note has been added to the criteria to provide guidance on the frequency typically needed for a behavior to be considered symptomatic of the disorder. Fourth, a severity rating has been added to the criteria to reflect research showing that the degree of pervasiveness of symptoms across settings is an important indicator of severity.» [Fonte].
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Tappa numero 4.Utilizzo pratico.
Una volta detto che gli psicologi sono come gli psichiatri, diventa facile dire che la psicologia è psichiatria.
Il gioco è fatto. L’Odd è diventato un “disordine mentale”.
«E’ nata una nuova malattia mentale. E’ quella che porta i cittadini a interrogarsi sull’operato delle autorità.».
«Ma è invece la nuova realtà della psichiatria ufficiale. O meglio, un deja vu, dal momento che l’Unione sovietica utilizzava la “malattia mentale” per la repressione politica; tanto che chi non accettava il credo del Partito Comunista veniva curato a forza, isolato, sottoposto a terapia repressiva al fine di riportarlo a una condizione di “sanità mentale”».
«Il disordine mentale viene descritto come un “atteggiamento continuo di ostilità, disobbedienza e comportamento ribelle”, e i sintomi includono per l’appunto ribellione, negatività, contestare l’autorità, e essere polemici.».
«Ma è invece la nuova realtà della psichiatria ufficiale. O meglio, un deja vu, dal momento che l’Unione sovietica utilizzava la “malattia mentale” per la repressione politica; tanto che chi non accettava il credo del Partito Comunista veniva curato a forza, isolato, sottoposto a terapia repressiva al fine di riportarlo a una condizione di “sanità mentale”».
«Il disordine mentale viene descritto come un “atteggiamento continuo di ostilità, disobbedienza e comportamento ribelle”, e i sintomi includono per l’appunto ribellione, negatività, contestare l’autorità, e essere polemici.».
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Conclusioni.A tappe successive, come un verme che si scava le gallerie nelle ciliegie, l’élite dominante si è costruita un’ulteriore arma, molto potente. Non ha bisogno di utilizzare vie politiche, ed adesso quasi nemmeno quelle amministrative.
Tizio critica il governo? Che diamine! Quello è pazzo da legare: ha un «atteggiamento continuo di ostilità, disobbedienza e comportamento ribelle». Non è un caso politico: è un caso clinico da trattare, magari con la lobectomia.
→ WSI. 2015-01-22. Come nell’Unione Sovietica. “Se metti in dubbio l’autorità, sei malato di mente”
L’ufficiale Manuale di disordini psichiatrici ha coniato una nuova malattia: “oppositional defiant disorde (ODD)”.
ROMA (WSI) – E’ nata una nuova malattia mentale. E’ quella che porta i cittadini a interrogarsi sull’operato delle autorità. Sembra il film “Equilibrium”, che descrive una civiltà in cui le passioni sono morte, al fine di far funzionare l’ordine e garantire, appunto, l’equilibrio alla società. Ma è invece la nuova realtà della psichiatria ufficiale. O meglio, un deja vu, dal momento che l’Unione sovietica utilizzava la “malattia mentale” per la repressione politica; tanto che chi non accettava il credo del Partito Comunista veniva curato a forza, isolato, sottoposto a terapia repressiva al fine di riportarlo a una condizione di “sanità mentale”.
Nell’American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), considerata la Bibbia della psichiatria, entra a far parte un nuovo malessere, definito “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. E’ quanto riporta il sito themindunileashed.org, che fa riferimento all’ultima edizione del manuale DSM-IV. Il disordine mentale viene descritto come un “atteggiamento continuo di ostilità, disobbedienza e comportamento ribelle”, e i sintomi includono per l’appunto ribellione, negatività, contestare l’autorità, e essere polemici.
Certo, sembra che il manuale in ogni sua edizione vada a caccia di nuove malattie mentali. Gli autori del DSM-IV spiegano il fenomeno con la maggiore capacità degli esperti di identificare nuovi disagi mentali. Ma i critici affermano che la verità è che gli psichiatri hanno troppo tempo da sprecare. Basti pensare che tra le nuove malattie mentali vengono inclusi l’arroganza, il narcisismo, la creatività al di sopra della norma, il cinismo e il comportamento anti-sociale, che in passato venivano considerati semplicemente “tratti delle personalità”. E ci sono oggi anche cure disponibili.
L’ufficiale Manuale di disordini psichiatrici ha coniato una nuova malattia: “oppositional defiant disorde (ODD)”.
ROMA (WSI) – E’ nata una nuova malattia mentale. E’ quella che porta i cittadini a interrogarsi sull’operato delle autorità. Sembra il film “Equilibrium”, che descrive una civiltà in cui le passioni sono morte, al fine di far funzionare l’ordine e garantire, appunto, l’equilibrio alla società. Ma è invece la nuova realtà della psichiatria ufficiale. O meglio, un deja vu, dal momento che l’Unione sovietica utilizzava la “malattia mentale” per la repressione politica; tanto che chi non accettava il credo del Partito Comunista veniva curato a forza, isolato, sottoposto a terapia repressiva al fine di riportarlo a una condizione di “sanità mentale”.
Nell’American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), considerata la Bibbia della psichiatria, entra a far parte un nuovo malessere, definito “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. E’ quanto riporta il sito themindunileashed.org, che fa riferimento all’ultima edizione del manuale DSM-IV. Il disordine mentale viene descritto come un “atteggiamento continuo di ostilità, disobbedienza e comportamento ribelle”, e i sintomi includono per l’appunto ribellione, negatività, contestare l’autorità, e essere polemici.
Certo, sembra che il manuale in ogni sua edizione vada a caccia di nuove malattie mentali. Gli autori del DSM-IV spiegano il fenomeno con la maggiore capacità degli esperti di identificare nuovi disagi mentali. Ma i critici affermano che la verità è che gli psichiatri hanno troppo tempo da sprecare. Basti pensare che tra le nuove malattie mentali vengono inclusi l’arroganza, il narcisismo, la creatività al di sopra della norma, il cinismo e il comportamento anti-sociale, che in passato venivano considerati semplicemente “tratti delle personalità”. E ci sono oggi anche cure disponibili.
→ Themindunleashed. 2014-11-16. Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Considered Mental Illnesses.
Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. Defined as an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.
The DSM-IV is the manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose mental illnesses and, with each new edition, there are scores of new mental illnesses. Are we becoming sicker? Is it getting harder to be mentally healthy? Authors of the DSM-IV say that it’s because they’re better able to identify these illnesses today. Critics charge that it’s because they have too much time on their hands.
New mental illnesses identified by the DSM-IV include arrogance, narcissism, above-average creativity, cynicism, and antisocial behavior. In the past, these were called “personality traits,” but now they’re diseases. And there are treatments available.
All of this is a symptom of our over-diagnosing and overmedicating culture. In the last 50 years, the DSM-IV has gone from 130 to 357 mental illnesses. A majority of these illnesses afflict children. Although the manual is an important diagnostic tool for the psychiatric industry, it has also been responsible for social changes. The rise in ADD, bipolar disorder, and depression in children has been largely because of the manual’s identifying certain behaviors as symptoms. A Washington Post article observed that, if Mozart were born today, he would be diagnosed with ADD and “medicated into barren normality.”
According to the DSM-IV, the diagnosis guidelines for identifying oppositional defiant disorder are for children, but adults can just as easily suffer from the disease. This should give any freethinking American reason for worry. The Soviet Union used new “mental illnesses” for political repression. People who didn’t accept the beliefs of the Communist Party developed a new type of schizophrenia. They suffered from the delusion of believing communism was wrong. They were isolated, forcefully medicated, and put through repressive “therapy” to bring them back to sanity.
When the last edition of the DSM-IV was published, identifying the symptoms of various mental illnesses in children, there was a jump in the diagnosis and medication of children. Some states have laws that allow protective agencies to forcibly medicate, and even make it a punishable crime to withhold medication. This paints a chilling picture for those of us who are nonconformists. Although the authors of the manual claim no ulterior motives but simply better diagnostic practices, the labeling of freethinking and nonconformity as mental illnesses has a lot of potential for abuse. It can easily become a weapon in the arsenal of a repressive state.
→ Naturalnews. 2014-04-25. Psychiatrists now say non-conformity is a mental illness: only the sheeple are ‘sane’.
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.”
Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. Defined as an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.
The DSM-IV is the manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose mental illnesses and, with each new edition, there are scores of new mental illnesses. Are we becoming sicker? Is it getting harder to be mentally healthy? Authors of the DSM-IV say that it’s because they’re better able to identify these illnesses today. Critics charge that it’s because they have too much time on their hands.
New mental illnesses identified by the DSM-IV include arrogance, narcissism, above-average creativity, cynicism, and antisocial behavior. In the past, these were called “personality traits,” but now they’re diseases. And there are treatments available.
All of this is a symptom of our over-diagnosing and overmedicating culture. In the last 50 years, the DSM-IV has gone from 130 to 357 mental illnesses. A majority of these illnesses afflict children. Although the manual is an important diagnostic tool for the psychiatric industry, it has also been responsible for social changes. The rise in ADD, bipolar disorder, and depression in children has been largely because of the manual’s identifying certain behaviors as symptoms. A Washington Post article observed that, if Mozart were born today, he would be diagnosed with ADD and “medicated into barren normality.”
According to the DSM-IV, the diagnosis guidelines for identifying oppositional defiant disorder are for children, but adults can just as easily suffer from the disease. This should give any freethinking American reason for worry. The Soviet Union used new “mental illnesses” for political repression. People who didn’t accept the beliefs of the Communist Party developed a new type of schizophrenia. They suffered from the delusion of believing communism was wrong. They were isolated, forcefully medicated, and put through repressive “therapy” to bring them back to sanity.
When the last edition of the DSM-IV was published, identifying the symptoms of various mental illnesses in children, there was a jump in the diagnosis and medication of children. Some states have laws that allow protective agencies to forcibly medicate, and even make it a punishable crime to withhold medication. This paints a chilling picture for those of us who are nonconformists. Although the authors of the manual claim no ulterior motives but simply better diagnostic practices, the labeling of freethinking and nonconformity as mental illnesses has a lot of potential for abuse. It can easily become a weapon in the arsenal of a repressive state.
→ Naturalnews. 2014-04-25. Psychiatrists now say non-conformity is a mental illness: only the sheeple are ‘sane’.
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.”
Bonnie RJ. Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union and in China. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 30:136–44, 2001
