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Originally Posted by Mathgod
You don't know anything about me, yet that hasn't stopped you from making assumptions about me.
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You're social media tracks are pretty easy to follow and they paint quite the picture. I know that you have no expertise nor competencies in what you are talking about. You like to use circular references and closed information loops, just like all the self-produced non-peer reviewed videos you've dropped on this site.
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The fact is that I have seen, heard, and been through a whole bunch of things that have informed me on the topic. I've spoken to people in the know, and they largely agree with my assessment, which is that clinical depression is wildly overdiagnosed, and the vast majority of people who've been diagnosed actually don't have anything wrong with them.
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Wow, do you know who you sound like? "I've spoken to people in the know. They've been talking. They've been saying. They largely agree with me! The experts don't understand any of this like I do!" Let me guess, vaccinations cause autism too? People are talking. They're saying...
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Most of the people in the psychiatry and psychology professions get their marching orders from the top, from the DSM, which is controlled by a tight-knit group of people. Never underestimate ulterior motives that these people might have. Think about it, what if you had the power to label anyone crazy that you wanted to silence. You could label anyone who passionately disagrees with your political views as mentally ill.
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Really? People in psychiatry and psychology get their marching order from the DSM? Bwaaaaaaaahahahahahaha!!!
The DSM [sic] is a reference manual. More accurately known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and identified by the edition - we are using DSM-5. The manual is a reference to confirm or validate diagnosis assumptions. The American Psychiatric Association is the publisher and the content is developed by working groups of hundreds of experts in their fields of study, which is then vetted through the peer review process. Anything that ends up in the DSM has been fully vetted through multiple clinical trials and using an independent test-retest methodology. No marching orders. A very cooperative process for making updates where SMEs are the ones who determine the content, then have that content tested and retested to come to reliable and repeatable conclusions. Then that is vetted through the peer review process. So yeah, really driven by a small tight-nit cabal of "people."
I shared your little conspiracy theory with a circle of my psychologist cohorts and we all thank you for the laugh. We have all pulled out our copies of the DSM-5 and are awaiting our marching orders.
