Post #274,606
12/2/06 11:42:50 AM
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Mental health professionals - "Liberalism" mental disorder
[link|http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/05/movement_to_cla.html|Bush Derangement Sydrome is bad for you]
Excerpt:
NEW YORK, NY - When Zacharia Goodman recently sought out the help of a therapist, it was no mystery as to what was ailing him. The 27-year-old copy editor was so consumed by his belief that President George W. Bush stole the 2004 election that he was having trouble sleeping, completing rudimentary tasks at work, and carrying on conversations about topics not related to politics.
The therapist he consulted wrote Goodman a prescription for the social anxiety drug Paxil and encouraged him to spend less time reading left-wing Web logs and listening to Air America.
This particular story has a happy ending; Goodman admits that he's already far less irritating to be around than he was just a few weeks ago. But countless paranoids just like him may be going untreated, say mental health professionals. The reason: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM presently excludes political paranoia from its 933 pages of symptoms, diagnoses and treatment recommendations.
Now a group of Republican lawmakers is hoping that they can do something about the problem. Early this summer, Senator Bill Frist, the first practicing physician elected to the Senate since 1928, plans to file a bill that would define "political paranoia" as a mental disorder, paving the way for individuals who suffer from paranoid delusions regarding voter fraud, political persecution and FBI surveillance to receive Medicare reimbursement for any psychiatric treatment they receive.
I say:
Well, this explains all those 9-11 conspiracy theories and antisemitic rants. Yep, they're freaking nuts.
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Post #274,609
12/2/06 11:53:14 AM
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Just another hack at personal liberties and . . .
. . political dissent. If they can get "Political Paranoia" legeslated as a mental disorder they can lock up anyone who speaks against their position without any threat of due process whatever.
Of course, as the Right continues to fall out of power, they may be the first victims of any such abuses they manage to push through.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #274,611
12/2/06 11:56:42 AM
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Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk. It's (poor) satire. It's from 2005.
Is there some reason why you posted it in "Science"?
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #274,612
12/2/06 12:10:05 PM
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Goes in which forum?
Matthew Greet
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
- Mark Renton, Trainspotting.
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Post #274,618
12/2/06 2:01:47 PM
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hows that iraqi thing going?
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
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Post #274,637
12/2/06 10:03:48 PM
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That the best you can do?
Bush and the Neocons' behaviour has driven some over the edge so all liberals are 'freaking nuts'?
By that measure, since some Republicans are pedophiles and abuse their mistresses, ALL Republicans are pedophiles and abuse their mistresses.
Go away.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #274,642
12/3/06 12:36:46 AM
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Right back at you - Psychotics prefer Bush
[link|http://www.ctnow.com/custom/nmm/newhavenadvocate/hce-nha-1123-nh48bushbash48.artnov23,0,1695911.story|http://www.ctnow.com...3,0,1695911.story]
Lohse\ufffds study, backed by SCSU Psychology professor Jaak Rakfeldt and statistician Misty Ginacola, found a correlation between the severity of a person\ufffds psychosis and their preferences for president: The more psychotic the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush.
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Not really news, though, is it.
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Post #274,644
12/3/06 1:23:00 AM
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How could you be so mean . . .
. . as to point a finger at the psychological challenges our dear Marlowe faces every day - as if he didn't have enough problems already without your broadcasting it to the world.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #274,673
12/3/06 1:38:00 PM
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People who throw mud
must be ready to get muddy.
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Post #274,720
12/3/06 9:41:34 PM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #274719 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=274719|ICLRPD]
"Don't give up!"
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Post #274,648
12/3/06 4:15:15 AM
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Right-eous-ness cha cha cha.
(You don't rate even a 'YPB' for your ongoing afflictions, Mr. Anonymous-coward - not until you apologize for n+100 character slurs, spewed at every healthy/functioning person here during the most virulent stages of your continuing addiction to Certainty-in-all-things.)
Gehabt, Kinder.
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Post #274,655
12/3/06 6:18:05 AM
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Like all satire, this highlights some truth (new thread)
Created as new thread #274654 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=274654|Like all satire, this highlights some truth]
Matthew Greet
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
- Mark Renton, Trainspotting.
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