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Ales2:
Just an article for general reading:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46329572/ns/health/

Best to everyone.

A.
 

BonesMS:
Interesting.......

I fear that the DSM-5 will turn out to be a nightmare for everyone.  People who need the diagnosis of Asperger's won't be able to get one, pedophiles will get a "Get Out of Jail Free card" and continue to rape again, and others who are naturally shy, are artistically eccentric, or grieve normally are labeled "mentally ill".  THAT SUCKS!!!!   :P

Bones

sKePTiKal:

--- Quote --- ...  "oppositional defiant disorder" - a condition in which a child "actively refuses to comply with majority's requests" and "performs deliberate actions to annoy others."
"That basically means children who say 'no' to their parents more than a certain number of times," Kinderman said. "On that criteria, many of us would have to say our children are mentally ill."
--- End quote ---

and what happens when an adult uses the "no" of boundary-speak? or anyone in the vicinity is annoyed by actions of another - who is just being themselves?


tsk-tsk.... I think I agree with the guy who said we don't need any more labels to be able to adequately help people. When systems and processes grow too large; too complex... the natural phenomenon Entropy sets in - and the system or process ceases to work at all.

JustKathy:
This is just terrible. Under these new guidelines, an N mother is perfectly normal, while the child who tries to defend him/herself will be diagnosed as having "oppositional defiant disorder."

Ales2:
I agree with all of you - Bones, Phoenix and Kathy!

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