tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post1382776004659900197..comments2023-08-20T04:55:39.436-07:00Comments on Ars Psychiatrica: On Psychiatric OverdiagnosisNovalishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-21760785194499461112008-12-07T07:07:00.000-08:002008-12-07T07:07:00.000-08:00My State Health Department is getting around all t...My State Health Department is getting around all this by changing the language, as usual. Disorder, pathology, mental illness is so 1990s, the goal today is "behavioral health." They've changed the name of community mental health clinics to behavioral health, and the term is used as a chant in speeches, bills and policy papers. <BR/><BR/>Of course the term "behavioral health" is indefinable, which lets it mean everything, and opens all doors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-33742108194739597072008-12-03T22:35:00.000-08:002008-12-03T22:35:00.000-08:00College students overusing/abusing drugs and alcoh...College students overusing/abusing drugs and alcohol? What's society coming to?! This behaviour should definitely be psychiatrically treated; hell, why don't we treat the entire disorder that, up until now, has politically correctly (but incorrectly) been referred to as 'being a teenager' and all the attendant psychodramas that it entails? Those pesky teens and all that rebellion, I mean really...<BR/><BR/>If you look hard enough you can find almost anything. Even the occasional flying pig; especially if you happen to be a Flying Pig Specialist.<BR/><BR/>I envisage a utopia where a uniform mental topography throbs painlessly in the shadow of a beige rainbow....ahh bliss, so much of it that we no longer feel it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-79672713652205630142008-12-03T15:10:00.000-08:002008-12-03T15:10:00.000-08:00Something about this study makes me think of somet...Something about this study makes me think of something there was much hue and cry about more than 20 years ago -- fibrocystic breast disease. Then it turned out to be both benign and very common and ceased to be the disease du jour.<BR/><BR/>My cynical self says to follow the money -- who benefits from having so many people "suffering" from so many diagnoses? Oops, maybe cynicism is the next new DSM disorder?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com