Psychiatry is expanding to meet our needs...

[Kevin B. Murphy]

There is a famous quote about government which goes... the bureaucracy is
expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy... in fact, that is
the main reason why we can't have a military takeover of the civilian
government... the civilian government manages our countries bureaucracy and
the military wants it to stay that way... Anyways, nobody can tell me shit
about psychiatry... Psychiatry is always going to expand... to meet our
needs for an expanded need for psychiatry... (shrug)... I don't suppose we
should care but if you don't know what I'm talking about then don't respond
to this posting with: 'I don't know what you are talking about.' because it
just brands you as being stupid... You know, I'm willing to bet that Islam
doesn't actually care that they are theologically transparent to me
because... Islam embraces a minimalist need for psychiatry... so good luck
trying to change that, America's government, as we continue our military
adventures in the Islamic world. I must be psycho because.... I'm a
tangible threat to psychiatry's continued future expansion.... so what are
we going to call that illness?

--
Denial of Free Will makes the Knowledge of Order Absolute.

[Immortalist]

Sounds like a little of many style of controlled thinking;

1. ALL-OR-NOTHING THINKING: You see things in black-and-white
categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see your
self as a total failure.

2. OVERGENERALIZATION: You see a single negative event as a never-
ending pattern of defeat.

3. MENTAL FILTER: You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on
it exclusively so that your vision of all reality becomes darkened,
like the drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water.

4. DISQUALIFYING THE POSITIVE: You reject positive experiences by
insisting they "don't count" for some reason or other. In this way you
can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday
experiences.

5. JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS: You make a negative interpretation even
though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your
conclusion.

6. MIND READING: You arbitrarily conclude that someone is reacting
negatively to you, and you don't bother to check this out

7. THE FORTUNETELLER ERROR: you can anticipate that things will turn
out badly, and you feel convinced that your prediction is an already-
established fact.

8. MAGNIFICATION (CATASTROPHIZING) OR MINIMIZATION: You exaggerate the
importance of things (such as your goof-up or someone else's
achievement), or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear
tiny (your own desirable qualities or other fellow's imperfections).
This is also called the binocular trick."

9. EMOTIONAL REASONING: You assume that your negative emotions
necessarily reflect the way things really are: "I feel it, therefore
it must be true."

10. SHOULD STATEMENTS: You try to motivate yourself with should and
shouldn't, as if you had to be whipped and punished before you could
be expected to do anything. "Musts" and "oughts" are also offenders.
The emotional consequences are guilt. When you direct should
statements toward others, you feel anger, frustration, and resentment.

11. LABELING AND MISLABELING: This is an extreme form of
overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a
negative label to yourself. "I'm a loser." When someone else's
behavior rubs you the wrong way, you attach a negative label to him"
"He's a Goddamn louse." Mislabeling involves describing an event with
language that is highly colored and emotionally loaded.

12. PERSONALIZATION: You see your self as the cause of some negative
external event, which in fact you were not primarily responsible for.

http://tinyurl.com/68sm

[Kevin B. Murphy]

Does all this apply to me? You know, the only thing that I've ever had a
real need to have more control over was sarcasm. Mostly, I'm just typing
words into the computer to see how the computer reacts to the words that I'm
typing into it... I don't think I need all these rules that you're trying to
lay on me... Also, I don't really understand some of your definitions... The
'thought experiment' of being psychic necessarily implys what? Well, it
means that I must know something about existentialism when I know nothing
about it and need a really good reason to find it interesting. Actually, I
am psychic... I can 'smell' what people are thinking... It was very
disconcerting to me at first but I think I've finally gotten used to the
idea... It's not like 'The Mentalist' and body language or anything like
that.