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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.
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.
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.
Disagree on all of these assertions.
There's no "massive change" being sought after here. Just an unlocking of a piece of human nature that already exists. Have you seen the film The Day The Earth Stood Still... it gets the point across rather well.
Does this prove that we're ultra competitive by nature? Or does it prove that a small percentage of people are complete psychos and are very good at conning and manipulating the rest of us? Perhaps the system is largely a reflection of those people, not of the population as a whole.
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Do you understand how the DSM works? it is completely useless as a tool to 'silence' people, it's not a list of people they have decided are nuts, each condition it diagnoses has a list of symptoms or indicators, 7 or more, and to be diagnosed a patient has to exhibit 5 or so of the indicators (I stand to be corrected on the numbers here) it is literally designed to reduce the ability of a psychiatrists to misdiagnose due to personal bias, there are many issues with it, its tendancy to look for conditions to diagnose, mission creep if you will, is a concern but the last thing it could be used for is to silence an individual