NYT; A Nerdless Breakdown
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: NYT; A Nerdless Breakdown
Date: Jun 1, 2010 10:57 AM
TWO ARTICLES ABOUT THE LACK OF NERDS
TO HELP US BREAKDOWN THE NATIONAL MENTAL
ILLNESSES.
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1) No Nerds (AKA Whistleblowers or others are
presecuted by the Bigs for their innovation):
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/opinion/01herbert.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
and
2) Nobody smart enough to breakdown
the the West's Paradigm of Inversed Human
Nature: "Blame-The-Victim"
("unable to handle life's stresses")
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/health/01mind.html?hpw
To defeat this psychiatric nonsense, one
only needs to discover there is nothing
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAIN_PERMANENT.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAINDAMAGE.htm
scientific or morally sound to any of
its dogma, and that it is those who
*can* deal with the 1) No-Nerds Allowed/sad
State of American-Self-Centeredness-and-Greed
Affairs who are mentally ill; those who
are happy to ignore injustice and blame
their own good luck on Divine Entitlement.
:)))
These two publications are a Boomeranger in
diagnostics certainly not designed to be run
together in the same day by the Gray Lady whose
Death Becomes Her NYT, although inevitable.
We have no Nerds to save the country from
1) its physical and econothermodynamic disasters
[the 9/11 and Trillion$ for No-Oil Stunt]
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/msg/8591b95e0ece47f7?dmode=source
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/msg/e066f6566802741e?dmode=source
2) and the New York Times runs psychiatric
garbage as if it were real and scientific,
despite the article itself revealing how
dumbjective is this nonsense and how dumbjective
it has been over the long term. In other words,
this brainscramble, psychiatry, never gets anything
right because its essential fulcrum is in the
wrong place:
"SELFISH" is not "normal." It may be common.
It may be frequent. But their own studies
have shown that even babies have compassion
and a sense of justice, and that "as useful as
hypocrisy can be, in your heart you know you're
wrong"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01tier.html
The Times never ran any of the sci-med
stories of the Month of May and probably
the DECADE:
1)"NIH's New Rules on Conflicts of Interest:"
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/303/20/2058?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=spin&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
2)"Fully *Half* (36/72) of the 'Controlled Studies'
are Scientific GARBAGE:"
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/303/20/2058
3)JAMA tells the CDC "We are *DONE* WHICHYOO"
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/303/20/2080
over the antibiotic resistance and bogus
vaccines hysteria perpetrated by the ID
Society of Israel, who has now admitted
defeat over this very skit:
http://www.idsociety.org/10x20.htm
after the WHO and the EU slammed them:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=link&linkname=pubmed_pubmed&uid=19375159
Where is the brainiac psychiatrist who
can tell us how to plug the spill, revive
the collapse honeybee colonies, resuscitate
the nearly extinct bats.... ?
What do we do about the fact that when
gp120-LYMErix docks with TLR4, it changes shape?
http://www.actionlyme.org/PAM3CYS_IMMUNE_SUPPRESSION.htm
Today is NYT's Science Tuesday, I remind.
:)))
- - -
The Victims ("nervous breakdown") of the National
Tardery can't focus their anger at its source,
this psychiatric Western Linguistobastardy by
the Bigs... because the Gray Lady won't allow it.
She runs on that juice, too, ya know - that Fountain
of Youth known as the Petrodollar. 'Something one
carries around in one's head as an imaginary symbol
of power and prestige but is the Deliverer
of Carnage in the Middle East. 'The Deliverer
of the world's largest economy *to* China
as a reward for the millions of lies and lives
they took in the last 40 years... in its Almighty
Name.
The truth will set you free.
There *are* no experts;
no Nerds are allowed.
Everyone suffers except those who enjoy
other peoples' misery.
The Truth does to modern capitalism
what Mr. Iceberg did to Miss Titanic
on their first date, but Miss Gray
Lady Times ain't goin down widdout
drowning all the survivors in the
lifeboats along with her.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/opinion/01herbert.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
May 31, 2010
Our Epic Foolishness
By BOB HERBERT
If a bank is too big to fail, it’s way too big to exist. If an oil
well is too far beneath the sea to be plugged when something goes
wrong, it’s too deep to be drilled in the first place.
When are we going to stop behaving so stupidly? We nearly wrecked the
economy and we’re all but buried in debt. But we can’t break up the
biggest banks, and we can’t raise taxes. Now we’re fouling the
magnificent Gulf of Mexico and ruining entire communities along the
southern Louisiana Coast.
And, by the way, we’re still fighting a futile war in Afghanistan that
we’ve been fighting with nonstop futility for nearly a decade. (I’m
sure the troops saddled with this thankless task were thrilled to see
fans and teams demonstrating their undying support for their efforts
by wearing fancy baseball caps on Memorial Day.)
For a nation that can’t stop bragging about how great and powerful it
is, we’ve become shockingly helpless in the face of the many
challenges confronting us. Our can-do spirit was put on hold many
moons ago, and here we are now unable to defeat the Taliban, or rein
in the likes of BP and the biggest banks, or stop the oil gushing
furiously from the bowels of earth like a warning from Hades about the
hubris and ignorance that is threatening to destroy us.
BP and the Obama administration have been equally clueless about
halting the millions of gallons of oil that have flowed into the gulf
since the Deepwater Horizon explosion more than a month ago. President
Obama’s top adviser on energy policy, Carol Browner, unintentionally
underscored the monumental futility of the response in a comment she
made on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
“This is obviously a difficult situation,” said Ms. Browner, “but it’s
important for people to understand that from the beginning, the
government has been in charge.”
Got that? No one has been able to bring the crisis under control, and
no one expects it to be brought under control soon, but the important
thing for us to know is that the government has been in charge of this
epic failure all along.
However and whenever the well gets capped, what we really need is
leadership that calls on the American public to begin coping in a
serious and sustained way with an energy crisis that we’ve been warned
about for decades. If the worst environmental disaster in the
country’s history is not enough to bring about a reversal of our epic
foolishness on the energy front, then nothing will.
The first thing we can do is conserve more. That’s the low-hanging
fruit in any clean-energy strategy.
It’s fast, cheap and easy. It’s something that all Americans, young
and old, can be asked to participate in immediately. In that sense,
it’s a way of combating the pervasive feelings of helplessness that
have become so demoralizing and so destructive to our long-term
interests.
People have talked about energy conservation for the longest time. But
we have dawdled on making vehicles more fuel-efficient and
weatherizing our homes and insisting that commercial buildings be more
energy efficient, and so on. Turn those thermostats down a couple of
degrees in the winter and up in the summer. Figure out ways to have a
little fun while doing it.
We also need a carbon tax. The current crisis is the perfect
opportunity for our political leaders to explain to the public why
this is so important and what benefits would come from it.
Above all, I’d like to see the creation of a second Manhattan Project
that would lead us in a few years to an environment in which
alternative fuels are abundant, effective and affordable. We are a
pathetically weak player in that game right now.
Instead of staring mesmerized at the tragedy in the gulf, like
spectators at a train wreck, we should be trying to regain that
innovative can-do spirit that made America the greatest of nations.
All around us is the wreckage of our failure to master the challenges
confronting us. We see it in the many millions of Americans who remain
out of work and whose hopes are not rising despite all the talk of
economic recovery. We see it in the schools where teachers are walking
the plank by the scores of thousands because of state and local budget
problems.
We see it in the shrinking middle class and in the black community
where depressionlike conditions are fostering not just a sense of
helplessness, but despair.
What’s needed is dynamic leadership (it doesn’t have to come from the
top) to reinvigorate the spirit of America and turn that sense of
helplessness around.
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May 31, 2010
On the Verge of ‘Vital Exhaustion’?
By BENEDICT CAREY
Decades ago modern medicine all but stamped out the nervous breakdown,
hitting it with a combination of new diagnoses, new psychiatric drugs
and a strong dose of professional scorn. The phrase was overused and
near meaningless, a self-serving term from an era unwilling to talk
about mental distress openly.
But like a stubborn virus, the phrase has mutated.
In recent years, psychiatrists in Europe have been diagnosing what
they call “burnout syndrome,” the signs of which include “vital
exhaustion.” A paper published last year defined three types:
“frenetic,” “underchallenged,” and “worn out” (“exasperated” and
“bitter” did not make the cut).
This is the latest umbrella term for the kind of emotional collapses
that have plagued humanity for ages, stemming at times from severe
mental difficulties and more often from mild ones. There have been
plenty of others. In the early decades of the 20th century, many
people simply referred to a crackup, including “The Crack-Up,” F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s 1936 collection of essays describing his own. And
before that there was neurasthenia, a widely diagnosed and undefined
nerve affliction causing just about any symptom people cared to add.
Yet medical historians say that, for versatility and descriptive
power, it may be hard to improve upon the “nervous breakdown.” Coined
around 1900, the phrase peaked in usage during the middle of the 20th
century and echoes still. One recent study found that 26 percent of
respondents to a national survey in 1996 reported that they had
experienced an “impending nervous breakdown,” compared with 19 percent
from the same survey in 1957.
“ ‘Nervous breakdown’ is one of those sturdy old terms, like
‘melancholia’ and ‘nervous illness,’ that haven’t really been
surpassed, although they sound antiquated,” the historian Edward
Shorter, co-author with Max Fink of the book “Endocrine Psychiatry:
Solving the Riddle of Melancholia,” said in an e-mail message.
Never a proper psychiatric diagnosis, the phrase always struck most
doctors as inexact, pseudoscientific and often misleading. But those
were precisely the qualities that gave it such a lasting place in the
popular culture, some scholars say. “It had just enough medical
sanction to be useful, but did not depend on medical sanction to be
used,” said Peter N. Stearns, a historian at George Mason University
near Washington, D.C.
A nervous breakdown was no small thing in the 1950s or ’60s, at least
by the time a person arrived at a doctor’s office. Psychiatrists today
say that, most often, it was code for an episode of severe depression
— or psychosis, the delusions that often signal schizophrenia.
“I don’t remember people who got that label ever using it as their own
complaint — it was very much stigmatized,” said Dr. Nada L. Stotland,
a former president of the American Psychiatric Association and a
professor at Rush Medical College in Chicago, who began practicing in
the 1960s. “Whether it was ‘nervous exhaustion’ or ‘nervous
breakdown,’ anything that sounded psychiatric was stigmatized at that
time. It was shameful, humiliating.”
The vagueness of the phrase made it impossible to survey the
prevalence of any specific mental problem: It could mean anything from
depression to mania or drunkenness; it might be the cause of a bitter
divorce or the result of a split. And glossing over those details left
people who suffered from what are now well-known afflictions, like
postpartum depression, entirely in the dark, wondering if they were
alone in their misery.
But that same imprecision allowed the speaker, not medical
professionals, to control its meaning. People might be on the verge
of, or close to, a nervous breakdown; and it was common enough to have
had “something like” a nervous breakdown, or a mild one. The phrase
allowed a person to disclose as much, or as little, detail about a
“crackup” as he or she saw fit. Vagueness preserves privacy.
Dr. Shorter said that the term “nervous” has traditionally been a
“weasel word” for mental troubles, implying that the cause was
something physical beyond the person’s control — their damaged nerves,
not their mind. And a breakdown, after all, is something that happens
to cars. It’s a temporary problem; or at least, not necessarily
chronic.
Through the ages, every generation has attributed its own catchall
diagnosis to larger cultural changes. Industrialization.
Modernization. The digital age. The 19th-century philosopher William
James reportedly called neurasthenia, from which he claimed to suffer
himself, “Americanitis,” in part the result of the accelerating pace
of American life. So it was with breakdowns. The causes were largely
external — and recovery a matter of better managing life’s demands.
“People accepted the notion of nervous breakdown often because it was
construed as a category that could handled without professional help,”
concluded a 2000 analysis by Dr. Stearns, Megan Barke and Rebecca
Fribush. The popularity of the phrase, they wrote, revealed “a
longstanding need to keep some distance from purely professional
diagnoses and treatments.”
Many did just that, and returned to work and family. Others did not.
They needed a more specific diagnosis, and targeted treatment. By the
1970s, more psychiatric drugs were available, and doctors directly
attacked the idea that people could effectively manage breakdowns on
their own.
Psychiatrists proceeded to slice problems like depression and anxiety
into dozens of categories, and public perceptions shifted, too. In
1976, 26 percent of people admitted seeking professional help, up from
14 percent in 1947, according to Dr. Stearns’s analysis. And “nervous
breakdown” began to fade from use.
The same fate may or may not await “burnout syndrome,” which for now
has backing from some doctors and medical researchers. But it has
another 30 years to outlast the classic “breakdown.”
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci