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OK, I am accepting bets, where am I detained? :).

I'd have no way of knowing that. But you sure as hell sound like a mental patient.

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Oh dear God... are you really going to compare Steve Job's cancer with someone with schizophrenia?

You're not helping yourself, here.

I am sorry, you are the one who brought into the discussion the idea of people renouncing standard cancer treatment for "magical thinking" and how people wouldn't be as understanding :).

 

I brought you a real life case of somebody who indeed, did just that and people didn't go to the streets demanding that he be treated against his will. You should read Walter Isaacson's bio who explicitly used the word "magical thinking" to describe how Steve Jobs decided not to follow standard cancer treatment for months after his diagnosis.

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I think you are the only one arguing the scientific concept theory. I'm just telling you that these things which you have labeled as "urban legends" do in fact exist in patients. I could give a rat's azz if they're scientific or not.

What exists?

 

To speak of a chemical "imbalance" one has to first determine what is a "normal balance" via objective tests, as we do with cholesterol or blood sugar. No such thing has ever done for any of the DSM labels.

 

If you say that people who refuse to accept a DSM label suffer from an actual neurological lesion, as it happens with genuine "anosognosia", you'd have to establish that on a scientific manner. Again, nothing of the sort has ever been done.

 

Which is not to say that people do not have extreme mental experiences or that refuse to see psychs, but that's different from "chemical imbalances" or "anosognosia".

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I am sorry, you are the one who brought into the discussion the idea of people renouncing standard cancer treatment for "magical thinking" and how people wouldn't be as understanding :).

I brought you a real life case of somebody who indeed, did just that and people didn't go to the streets demanding that he be treated against his will. You should read Walter Isaacson's bio who explicitly used the word "magical thinking" to describe how Steve Jobs decided not to follow standard cancer treatment for months after his diagnosis.

You're analogy sucks donkey balls.

 

If a cancer patient decides to forgo treatment it affects very few. If a schizophrenic person decides to forgo treatment, they can wreak havoc on a whole community.

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If a schizophrenic person decides to forgo treatment, they can wreak havoc on a whole community.

Which is probably exactly what was happening with CuckooForCocoaPuffs. Until they finally admitted him to the psych ward.

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You're analogy sucks donkey balls.

If a cancer patient decides to forgo treatment it affects very few. If a schizophrenic person decides to forgo treatment, they can wreak havoc on a whole community.

Or really, you mean like Apple's shareholders in the case of Steve Jobs.

 

I have a better example,

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688320/

 

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm312210.htm

 

That provides enough empirical evidence, of an order of magnitude higher than the junk science NAMI/TAC produce to justify their demands for power, that a policy that would,

 

- Require everybody to be tested of HIV.

- Require everybody who is tested POSITIVE to take HAART drugs.

- Require high risk groups (like gay men, IV drug users and prostitutes to be put on Truvada for life).

 

If the result were to be equal as the Cuban experience, we could save half of all HIV transmissions that happen each year in the US as well as half of all AIDS related deaths.

 

Yet, I am sure people like you are not about to go to the streets demanding coercive HIV treatment. Even by the TAC own exaggerated estimates, at most 1000 people are killed each year by a so called "untreated seriously mentally ill" person.

 

By the CDC estimates, 15000 people die each year of preventable AIDS. Adopting a coercive HIV policy would save 7500 lives a year.

 

Isn't a dead body, a dead body? Why should we accept that people die of AIDS when it can be avoided with coercive policies as Cuba does with its citizens?

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I'm starting to think his "forced" committal wasn't long enough. I don't think he got the help needed. He is wreaking havoc in the geek club community.

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Or really, you mean like Apple's shareholders in the case of Steve Jobs.

 

 

Are you on permanent disability?

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I am a "former mental patient", I already explained that. I identify myself with the psychiatric survivor movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_survivors_movement, thus my nickname "psychsurvivor" :).

 

 

So you're nuking futs. How did you find this fine place?

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What exists?

To speak of a chemical "imbalance" one has to first determine what is a "normal balance" via objective tests, as we do with cholesterol or blood sugar. No such thing has ever done for any of the DSM labels.

If you say that people who refuse to accept a DSM label suffer from an actual neurological lesion, as it happens with genuine "anosognosia", you'd have to establish that on a scientific manner. Again, nothing of the sort has ever been done.

Which is not to say that people do not have extreme mental experiences or that refuse to see psychs, but that's different from "chemical imbalances" or "anosognosia".

You're so hung up on these labels and needing scientific "proof" that you refuse to see what's right in front of your face.

 

My mother, when on medication was perfectly normal. Except if you tried to bring up her mental illness. She would claim that she was in the hospital for "stomach problems". When you would question why she would be in a mental facility, for stomach problems, she would say that she was moved there because of "overcrowding" at the regular hospital.

 

When she was off her meds, she would stay up all night, never get out of her nightgown, talk and scream at the walls, start calling my grandfather by his middle name, and have feelings of persecution. She would insist on calling herself "Mommy" even after my sister and myself were adults. Some of her delusions centered around a local lawyer, and she would call and go to his office and make a nuisance of herself- spouting things that didn't make sense. She would come to my school and cause disruptions saying my grandfather was trying to kill me. She also once drove her car through construction on a local bridge and nearly killed herself.

 

She would then be institutionalized, and would eventually comply for awhile. She would be discharged, and but it usually was just a matter of time before she would stop the medication. Rinse and repeat... We finally got her to agree to be medicated through injections. It was then that we learned that it was possible for the dopamine levels to fluctuate enough, that she could still get sick, if the dosage was not right. So there is obviously some chemical component to the illness.

 

You arguing that we should have just left her to her own devices, is just flabbergasting.

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Oh c'mon Old Maid, your mom was just havin' a little fun at others' expense. If she really wanted to she could've just willed herself to act as our bigoted society expects her to act

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Are you on permanent disability?

Dammit! It happened again. Why do posters skedaddle anytime I ask them a direct question?

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Dammit! It happened again. Why do posters skedaddle anytime I ask them a direct question?

 

It's time for Arts and Crafts? :dunno:

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That's the point. Do I think that DSM labels are made up and not been shown to correspond to actual brain diseases? Sure, but that's what psychiatry's leaders like Insel, Allen Frances or David Kupfer believe too.

 

 

Strategy 1.4 of the NIMH Strategic Plan calls for the development, for research purposes, of new ways of classifying psychopathology based on dimensions of observable behavior and neurobiological measures. The Research Domain Criteria project (RDoC) has been launched by NIMH to implement this strategy. In brief, the effort is to define basic dimensions of functioning (such as fear circuitry or working memory) to be studied across multiple units of analysis, from genes to neural circuits to behaviors, cutting across disorders as traditionally defined. The intent is to translate rapid progress in basic neurobiological and behavioral research to an improved integrative understanding of psychopathology and the development of new and/or optimally matched treatments for mental disorders.

 

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/research-priorities/rdoc/index.shtml?utm_source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govdelivery

 

Leaders like Insel think mental disorders are very real, have a biological basis, and are working to improve diagnostic classification rather than do away with it altogether.

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stay up all night, talk and scream at the walls, and have feelings of persecution, spouting things that didn't make sense.

I'll guess Bunny?

 

Sorry to hear about your mom. My college roommate's mother was schizophrenic. I only had the chance to speak on the phone with her once or twice, and when I did my roomie was very apologetic about it. Almost embarrassed. She was lucid enough....my roomie explained it was one of her good nights....but the thing that struck me was her affect. Just nothing behind that voice. Very distant.

 

There were times when she'd call 6-7 times a night. Just couldn't leave her son alone. Couple times he'd get off the phone with her all red eyed. Upset about something that had been said....or maybe just upset that it was so difficult to have a relationship with her.

 

Not sure if he had to endure some of the same things you did. Regardless, having a family member with schizophrenia is very tough. It's not something you deal with by saying.....I respect your extreme mental state and your civil liberties, do whatever you want. :wacko:

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I'll guess Bunny?

Sorry to hear about your mom. My college roommate's mother was schizophrenic. I only had the chance to speak on the phone with her once or twice, and when I did my roomie was very apologetic about it. Almost embarrassed. She was lucid enough....my roomie explained it was one of her good nights....but the thing that struck me was her affect. Just nothing behind that voice. Very distant.

There were times when she'd call 6-7 times a night. Just couldn't leave her son alone. Couple times he'd get off the phone with her all red eyed. Upset about something that had been said....or maybe just upset that it was so difficult to have a relationship with her.

Not sure if he had to endure some of the same things you did. Regardless, having a family member with schizophrenia is very tough. It's not something you deal with by saying.....I respect your extreme mental state and your civil liberties, do whatever you want. :wacko:

Thank you!

 

It's not something I usually talk about...

 

But to hear what this guy is spouting, is really getting under my skin. He has no idea how traumatic and disruptive, living with someone like that can be. I was hoping that maybe my experiences could help shed some light, but it seems to be falling on deaf ears.

 

I'm just glad someone gets it. :cheers:

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Don't forget he also does not like binary arguments unless they are his...nor does he like namecalling unless he is doing it.

why not forget?

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http://www.nimh.nih.gov/research-priorities/rdoc/index.shtml?utm_source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govdelivery

Leaders like Insel think mental disorders are very real, have a biological basis, and are working to improve diagnostic classification rather than do away with it altogether.

They "believe" they are biological but they haven't shown that they are. Big difference. Psychiatrist Samuel Cartwright in the XIX-th century also "believed" that some blacks unwillingness to be slaves was due to a mental illness called "drapetomania". It never occurred to him that maybe those blacks aspired to live free as much as whites :).

 

More recently, 40% of those psychiatrists who voted in the 1974 APA referendum that removed homosexuality from the DSM also "believed" that homosexuality was a very real mental illness. It never occurred to those people that some people are genuinely attracted to people of the same sex.

 

You get the idea. None of the DSM labels has been shown to be scientific. That is a statement of fact. Whether Insel "believes" that his new system will have more success than the DSM is to me as uninteresting as whether he believes in unicorns, frankly. Neither is about science.

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Thank you!

It's not something I usually talk about...

But to hear what this guy is spouting, is really getting under my skin. He has no idea how traumatic and disruptive, living with someone like that can be. I was hoping that maybe my experiences could help shed some light, but it seems to be falling on deaf ears.

I'm just glad someone gets it. :cheers:

Well, it seems to me that you don't care fore the lives of those 7500 whose deaths could be prevented each year if the US were to adopt a coercive HIV policy.

 

The above summarizes your position better than NAMI nonsense. You want to have your mother under control (from whatever odd behavior she displays) so that she doesn't shame you in public. Of course, drugging her accomplishes that goal. I understand. But that says nothing about the scientific nature of so called "mental illness" nor that children like you deserve to have legal control over their odd behaving family members.

 

If you don't like how your mother behaves and she doesn't want to take drugs, let me give you an option: disown your mother. I am sure she will appreciate. I have disowned my own ex-family for having abused me so viciously by way of an unwarranted civil commitment. I wish that instead of forcing the quackery of psychiatry on me they had disowned me instead. I would have my civil rights intact. Instead, I have now to live with this http://www.antipsychiatry.org/stigma.htm , which has very real life consequences, both socially and professionally.

 

People like you are disgusting. CS Lewis said "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive". Surely he had people like you or my ex-family in mind when he wrote that :).

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Well, it seems to me that you don't care fore the lives of those 7500 whose deaths could be prevented each year if the US were to adopt a coercive HIV policy.

The above resumes your position better than NAMI nonsense. You want to have your mother under control (from whatever odd behavior she displays) so that she doesn't shame you in public. Of course, drugging her accomplishes that goal. I understand. But that says nothing about the scientific nature of so called "mental illness" nor that children like you deserve to have legal control over their odd behaving family members.

If you don't like how your mother behaves and she doesn't want to take drugs, let me give you an option: disown your mother. I am sure she will appreciate. I have disowned my own ex-family for having abused me so viciously by way of an unwarranted civil commitment. I wish that instead of forcing the quackery of psychiatry on me they had disowned me instead. I would have my civil rights intact. Instead, I have now to live with this http://www.antipsychiatry.org/stigma.htm , which has very real life consequences, both socially and professionally.

People like you are disgusting. CS Lewis said "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive". Surely he had people like you or my ex-family in mind when he wrote that :).

Yes... because locking one's children in the basement to protect them from some unknown "harm" should be considered an odd behavior.

 

Please for the love of God go live with a schizophrenic person for the next 18 yrs of your life. Then get back to me on now much you enjoyed spending time with someone with these "odd behaviors" :rolleyes:

 

If you're not willing to do that, then please STFU and stop spouting your nonsense. It's clear to everyone that you haven't the slightest idea WTF you are talking about. It's also becoming increasing clear you aren't sane.

 

Or maybe we'll get lucky and the Dr's will finally lobotomize you.

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Yes... because locking one's children in the basement to protect them from some unknown "harm" should be considered an odd behavior.

Please for the love of God go live with a schizophrenic person for the next 18 yrs of your life. Then get back to me on now much you enjoyed spending time with someone with these "odd behaviors" :rolleyes:

If you're not willing to do that, then please STFU and stop spouting your nonsense. It's clear to everyone that you haven't the slightest idea WTF you are talking about. It's also becoming increasing clear you aren't sane.

Or maybe we'll get lucky and the Dr's will finally lobotomize you.

Believe it or not, psychosurgery is now a fad for so called "treatment" of OCD http://www.livescience.com/37120-psychosurgery-ocd.html . Thanks God involuntary psychosurgery is illegal in the US per federal law :).

 

Now seriously, I don't know what those 18 years are (0 to 18, as an adult, ?). In any case, NOBODY forces you to take care of your mother. Legally speaking the obligation is for parents to take care of their offspring until they become adults, not of children to be guardians of their parents. So if your mother bothered you at any time after you became an adult, the solution that would satisfy you and respect your mother's civil rights is simple: part ways.

 

As I said, I wish my ex-parents had done the same with yours truly. We ended up estranged for life anyway. So I see what happened to me as a gratuitous and vicious violation of my civil rights by sadistic people. I am sure your mother feels the same towards you :).

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Believe it or not, psychosurgery is now a fad for so called "treatment" of OCD http://www.livescience.com/37120-psychosurgery-ocd.html . Thanks God involuntary psychosurgery is illegal in the US per federal law :).

Now seriously, I don't know what those 18 years are (0 to 18, as an adult, ?). In any case, NOBODY forces you to take care of your mother. Legally speaking the obligation is for parents to take care of their offspring until they become adults, not of children to be guardians of their parents. So if your mother bothered you at any time after you became an adult, the solution that would satisfy you and respect your mother's civil rights is simple: part ways.

As I said, I wish my ex-parents had done the same with yours truly. We ended up estranged for life anyway. So I see what happened to me as a gratuitous and vicious violation of my civil rights by sadistic people. I am sure your mother feels the same towards you :).

At no time were my mother's civil liberties ever violated. That's where you are wrong. We didn't have any legal contol over her. Her involuntary committals were done the legal way. She was either picked up by law enforcement or was under court order.

 

Turning our back on her would have sentenced her to homelessness. No matter how hard living with her could get, I would never wish that for her. It's not like it's her fault she was sick.

 

I'm sorry you don't seem to grasp any of these concepts. You must really suck at life.

 

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At no time were my mother's civil liberties ever violated. That's where you are wrong. We didn't have any legal contol over her. Her involuntary committals were done the legal way. She was either picked up by law enforcement or was under court order.

Turning our back on her would have sentenced her to homelessness. No matter how hard living with her could get, I would never wish that for her. It's not like it's her fault she is sick.

I'm sorry you don't seem to grasp any of these concepts. You must really suck at life.

:wave:

Unless she was picked by the police because she had committed a crime, indeed, her civil rights were violated. All civil commitment statutes in the US, even though they have a higher standard than those in Europe, speak of what the committed person "might do", not what "they did". This is a key difference between an arrest for the commission of a crime (where there needs to be probable cause that a crime HAS BEEN COMMITTED) and an involuntary commitment where the deal is about what the person MIGHT DO IN THE FUTURE. Even though, as Allen Frances said, psychiatrists cannot predict who is likely to become violent and when. So all involuntary commitments are civil rights violations. No different from when it was legal to lock up somebody for being a black using whites' bathrooms.

 

With respect with you taking care of your mother, again, nobody forced you to do so. As they say, put up of shut the f$#%$%# up!

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This post is hidden because you have chosen to ignore posts by psychsurvivor. View it anyway?

 

I'm done putting up with your sh!t and lunatic rantings.

 

Congrats! You've officially been involuntarily committed at the Geek Club.

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I'm done putting up with your sh!t and lunatic rantings.

Congrats! You've officially been involuntarily committed at the Geek Club.

Not sure what you mean. In any case, it has become patently clear that you see psychiatry as a mechanism to control your mother. Which again, it is precisely what I said several posts ago. Psychiatry is not science or medicine, it is a mechanism of social control by MD degree holders for the benefit of people like you (and of course, the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the drugs required to assault people's brains chemically) :).

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Again, false conclusion. I'd say that they introduce a "chemical imbalance" rather than addressing one. Take people who are naturally shy. You give them a couple of beers and most of them suddenly become more chatty. Does alcohol address a "chemical imbalance" for these people or rather introduces one that causes them to become more disinhibited? And why is being "shy" not "normal", just because DSM quacks say so? And should we treat "shy" people by turning them into alcoholics by force if necessary? That is what people like you want to do to people like me with psychiatric poisons!

 

With respect to the comment on lobotomy, it says more about you than about me. You are so bought into the idea that the notion of "behavioral normality" that comes out of the DSM needs to be enforced at all costs that you don't spare means. If not drugs, you suggest lobotomy. What about NOT ENFORCEMENT AT ALL and leave behavioral control where it belongs, the criminal justice system not self appointed unaccountable MD holders mind guardians? Is that something that a self appointed god like you is willing to consider as a possibility?

Psychic surgery, not psychosurgery. As seems to be your habit, you misinterpreted my words to fuel your agenda. I'd say try again, but you've won the war of attrition - I'm tired of running in faux logic circles with you.

 

But you haven't changed anyone's mind. Indeed, some people who were interested in your ant-psych drivel have been turned off by your style. :mellow:

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Psychic surgery, not psychosurgery. As seems to be your habit, you misinterpreted my words to fuel your agenda. I'd say try again, but you've won the war of attrition - I'm tired of running in faux logic circles with you.

 

But you haven't changed anyone's mind. Indeed, some people who were interested in your ant-psych drivel have been turned off by your style. :mellow:

He's a nutjob, insane, dooshbag. Anyone that would suggest abandoning your own mentally ill mother, so she can fix her illness on her own, is focking crazy. I can see why he was admitted to a mental institution now. I hope he uses google to find his way out of here now.

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But you haven't changed anyone's mind. Indeed, some people who were interested in your ant-psych drivel have been turned off by your style. :mellow:

 

I disagree with that statement. Surely, I have been at the receiving end of a few insults, but I don't care. Those people you mention now know,

 

- DSM labels are not scientific (unlike what people like you had been preaching to them earlier).

 

- The "chemical imbalance" was an urban legend which, according to Ron Pies, was used as a marketing device to sell more psychiatric drugs.

 

- Many so called "prominent" psychiatrists, like Harvard's Joseph Bierderman, were involved in scandals by which they were promoting their pet, invented diseases on the payroll of pharmaceutical companies (in Biederman's case Johnson & Johnson) for which the "treatment" was a drug produced by said company. Since you have shown an interest in my videos, here is a satirical version of this phenomenon, known as disease mongering, based on a real case, that pervades psychiatry to this day,

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoppJOtRLe4

 

The real case is that indeed, on April's fools day 2006, Ray Moynihan wrote a satirical article for the British Medical Journal's news section on "Motivational Deficiency Disorder" and it was reported by the so called "objective press" as if it was real, as they had done in the past :).

 

Then of course, there will be some who will live in denial for a while, who refuse to accept that this scam has been going on for such a long time and affecting so many people, but that's how all matters regarding civil liberties go. Take the issue of civil rights for blacks. People forget that for around 60-70 years after the passage of the XIV-th amendment, "separate but equal" was a perfectly accepted way of treating blacks. It is only after several decades that people were able to look back in horror and ask "how was that possible"?

 

Similarly, now that the psychiatric scam is unraveling, people in 20-30 years will ask how is that so many children were given Ritalin or Risperdal with the approval of society at large? Well, because of people like you ! :).

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He's a nutjob, insane, dooshbag. Anyone that would suggest abandoning your own mentally ill mother, so she can fix her illness on her own, is focking crazy. I can see why he was admitted to a mental institution now. I hope he uses google to find his way out of here now.

Whatever. I respect OldMaid's mother civil rights more than she does. That's the "inconvenient truth" that people like you or her are unwilling to accept :).

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A very recent example of demonstrated use of psychiatry to suppress a whistle-blower,

 

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/court-releases-whistleblower-gustl-mollath-from-psychiatric-ward-a-915240.html

 

Mollath, a 56-year-old former restorer of vintage cars, was committed against his will in 2006 after a court found him a danger to society. Prosecutors alleged he had attacked his wife and slashed the tires of several cars -- charges of which he was never convicted. Instead, the court found he was not responsible for his actions because he was mentally ill.

 

Mollath has long denied the allegations levied against him and said he was being unjustly persecuted for blowing the whistle on tax evasion at HypoVereinsbank, where his wife (they have since divorced) was an employee. The tax evasion scheme described by Mollath was used as evidence that he suffered from paranoid delusions. But it was later found out to be partially true.

 

Mollath's release on Tuesday was based on the court's finding that a key medical report used by prosecutors was invalid -- or, in the court's exact words, a "fictitious document." The report was written by a Nuremburg doctor and documents the alleged abuse of Mollath's wife. It was eventually revealed that the doctor had never examined the wife in the first place.

 

The guy spent 7 years civilly committed!!!

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They "believe" they are biological but they haven't shown that they are. Big difference. Psychiatrist Samuel Cartwright in the XIX-th century also "believed" that some blacks unwillingness to be slaves was due to a mental illness called "drapetomania". It never occurred to him that maybe those blacks aspired to live free as much as whites :).

More recently, 40% of those psychiatrists who voted in the 1974 APA referendum that removed homosexuality from the DSM also "believed" that homosexuality was a very real mental illness. It never occurred to those people that some people are genuinely attracted to people of the same sex.

You get the idea. None of the DSM labels has been shown to be scientific. That is a statement of fact. Whether Insel "believes" that his new system will have more success than the DSM is to me as uninteresting as whether he believes in unicorns, frankly. Neither is about science.

Disorders like Depression, Schizophrenia, and Bipolar have shown to have a biological component. If you want to argue they don't, then address the science behind the findings that say they do. There has been enough research to delineate the genes, neurotransmitters, and neural circuitry involved with these disorders that someone with your smarts and rigorous training ought to be able to take apart a few experiments pretty easily. Instead you wanna talk about slaves and homos....which makes you sound kinda kinky.....and really unscientific. Either address the data that link our biology with mental disorders or just admit you're scientifically illiterate like most extremists these days are.

 

Nature vs. Nurture. Human Beings are not totally biologically driven. We're products of our environments too. Which is why some people with the genes don't develop a disorder because they haven't been exposed to an environmental trigger. And certain folks who are exposed to a stressor might not develop a disorder because of their genotype. It's the combination that creates the possibility of a disorder.

 

It's a little more nuanced than your concrete thinking will allow. :(

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I see dead people

Good that you see dead people. I see people at the Democratic Underground mobilizing to #freejustina,

 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024816943

 

And I also see that http://www.mindfreedom.org/ has chosen #freejustina as their theme for the annual demonstration at the APA convention, which will take place this year on May 4th in NYC,

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153984862255462&set=gm.624609384288226

 

Say hello to my hero Ronald Reagan :).

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Disorders like Depression, Schizophrenia, and Bipolar have shown to have a biological component. If you want to argue they don't, then address the science behind the findings that say they do. There has been enough research to delineate the genes, neurotransmitters, and neural circuitry involved with these disorders that someone with your smarts and rigorous training ought to be able to take apart a few experiments pretty easily. Instead you wanna talk about slaves and homos....which makes you sound kinda kinky.....and really unscientific. Either address the data that link our biology with mental disorders or just admit you're scientifically illiterate like most extremists these days are.

Nature vs. Nurture. Human Beings are not totally biologically driven. We're products of our environments too. Which is why some people with the genes don't develop a disorder because they haven't been exposed to an environmental trigger. And certain folks who are exposed to a stressor might not develop a disorder because of their genotype. It's the combination that creates the possibility of a disorder.

It's a little more nuanced than your concrete thinking will allow. :(

Again, you are confusing "correlation with causation". By your own logic, homos should go back to the DSM since,

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080617151845.htm

 

"Swedish researchers have found that some physical attributes of the homosexual brain resemble those found in the opposite sex, according to an article published online (June 16) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

 

I explained this with the hardware/software analogy. You can find hardware correlates for genuine software problems like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak but "memory leaks" are not caused by the underlying hardware. Similarly, fMRI correlates with human behavioral patters say nothing about said patterns being a "brain disease". Genuine brain diseases are CDJ and Alzheimer's. This might be a bit too challenging for you intellectually, but you are in good company with many pro psychiatry zealots around here :).

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