Submit to the new DSM
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Subject: Submit to the new DSM
Date: Apr 16, 2010 10:24 AM
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Thank you.
Here are my submissions:
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
DSM Formulary- New Additions:
THE SIXTH AXIS
Phariseeism: The hypocrisy of silence on child sexual abuse caused by
the epidemic of sexual perversions and sexual addictions associated
with psychiatry and pornography. Is highly linked to misogyny and
with the proponents of the symbolism of females as both subjects and
objects of male sexual aggression. The only distinction between
Phariseeism and the evil of the Personality Disorders (Narcissism,
Psychopathy, Sociopathy) is that the Pharisees have not in the past,
included themselves in their own DSM. Therefore, the disincludement
of the authors of the DSM in their own diabolical Blame-the-
Victimology is the distinguishing feature of the disorder.
Pharisical Tourette’s: The inability of the Pharisees to refrain
from compounding their own perjury when the entire Pharisical (fa-riss-
ik-əl) DSM Game is noticeably under threat by the DSM rule that one is
supposed to rule-out medical problems before making a diagnosis of
“crazy.” It’s like a compounded or a Double-Tourette’s, because while
the likes of Yale has a PANDA (pediatric neuroimmune disorders
associated with Group A streptococcus) agenda, and an Autism clinic,
no one with Pharisical Tourette’s can overcome this mental disorder
and state in a courtroom, that indeed, medical problems affect
thinking. When a person makes a crabby-face on a TV commercial for a
headache treatment, the sufferers of this specific kind of Tourette’s
are unable to distinguish the association between pain and frown.
Pharisical Tourette’s Disorder has parallels to Asperger’s in that
regard.
Dietz’ Psychosis: Similar to Pharisical Tourettes, self proclaimed
psychiatric experts who diagnose psychosis in others, have again, an
Aspergery-like blind side when they commit the same. This
nomenclature is based on the Andrea Yates case, where Park Dietz was
not charged with either perjury or psychosis for inventing the theory
that Yates had seen an episode of “Law and Order” that not only was
never produced, but was never conceived. Associated with the
Personality Disorders, within these Axis 6 disorder, there is a lack
of empathy or compassion despite the “MD” degree.
Zemelial Murder: This is a kind of Psychosis/PD usually demonstrated
by self-alleged pediatricians who know that Lyme Borreliosis is
associated with the production of all the Great Imitator outcomes (it
has been long known that syphilis or other spirochetal infection
results in Lupus), but who, when under threat of exposure hits out at
the most innocent of victims – pediatric immigrants whose parents
would not know how to defend against the Orwellian Child “Protective
Services” - engages the CPS to execute the murders.
Sexual Hospitalers: This is a condition wherein the perpetrators,
becoming so confused, depressed, and demented over their own crimes
and perversions, go so far as to recommend that since salutary broads
cure all diseases, any new hospital should advertise itself as a
brothel. They claim that sex cures alcoholism as well as all the New
Great Imitators, despite the lack of evidence for such a hypothesis
(much less the scientifically valid proof), and the evidence that sex,
in fact, causes more diseases than it has ever cured. Yale University
routinely assigns the proponents of such mechanisms of cure with an
“MD” degree. This is despite the FDA holding ground rules on what is
a drug and how to qualify them.
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http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-abuse/psychiatric-labels/dsm-5/allen-frances-v-dsm
It's not too late to save 'normal': Psychiatry's latest DSM goes too
far in creating new mental disorders.
Date Published: 2010-03-01 00:00
Author: Allen Frances, MD
Source: Los Angeles Times
As chairman of the task force that created the current Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), which came out in
1994, I learned from painful experience how small changes in the
definition of mental disorders can create huge, unintended
consequences.
Our panel tried hard to be conservative and careful but inadvertently
contributed to three false "epidemics" -- attention deficit disorder,
autism and childhood bipolar disorder. Clearly, our net was cast too
wide and captured many "patients" who might have been far better off
never entering the mental health system.
The first draft of the next edition of the DSM, posted for comment
with much fanfare last month, is filled with suggestions that would
multiply our mistakes and extend the reach of psychiatry dramatically
deeper into the ever-shrinking domain of the normal. This wholesale
medical imperialization of normality could potentially create tens of
millions of innocent bystanders who would be mislabeled as having a
mental disorder. The pharmaceutical industry would have a field day --
despite the lack of solid evidence of any effective treatments for
these newly proposed diagnoses.
The manual, prepared by the American Psychiatric Assn., is
psychiatry's only official way of deciding who has a "mental disorder"
and who is "normal." The quotes are necessary because this distinction
is very hard to make at the fuzzy boundary between the two. If
requirements for diagnosing a mental disorder are too stringent, some
who need help will be left out; but if they are too loose, normal
people will receive unnecessary, expensive and sometimes quite harmful
treatment.
Where the DSM-versus-normality boundary is drawn also influences
insurance coverage, eligibility for disability and services, and legal
status -- to say nothing of stigma and the individual's sense of
personal control and responsibility. What are some of the most
egregious invasions of normality suggested for DSM-V? "Binge eating
disorder" is defined as one eating binge per week for three months.
(Full disclosure: I, along with more than 6% of the population, would
qualify.) "Minor neurocognitive disorder" would capture many people
with no more than the expected memory problems of aging. Grieving
after the loss of a loved one could frequently be misread as "major
depression." "Mixed anxiety depression" is defined by commonplace
symptoms difficult to distinguish from the emotional pains of everyday
life.
The recklessly expansive suggestions go on and on. "Attention deficit
disorder" would become much more prevalent in adults, encouraging the
already rampant use of stimulants for performance enhancement. The
"psychosis risk syndrome" would use the presence of strange thinking
to predict who would later have a full-blown psychotic episode. But
the prediction would be wrong at least three or four times for every
time it is correct -- and many misidentified teenagers would receive
medications that can cause enormous weight gain, diabetes and
shortened life expectancy.
A new category for temper problems could wind up capturing kids with
normal tantrums. "Autistic spectrum disorder" probably would expand to
encompass every eccentricity. Binge drinkers would be labeled addicts
and "behavioral addiction" would be recognized. (If we have
"pathological gambling," can addiction to the Internet be far behind?)
The sexual disorders section is particularly adventurous.
"Hypersexuality disorder" would bring great comfort to philanderers
wishing to hide the motivation for their exploits behind a psychiatric
excuse. "Paraphilic coercive disorder" introduces the novel and
dangerous idea that rapists merit a diagnosis of mental disorder if
they get special sexual excitement from raping.
Defining the elusive line between mental disorder and normality is not
simply a scientific question that can be left in the hands of the
experts. The scientific literature is usually limited, never easy to
generalize to the real world and always subject to differing
interpretations.
Experts have an almost universal tendency to expand their own favorite
disorders: Not, as alleged, because of conflicts of interest -- for
example, to help drug companies, create new customers or increase
research funding -- but rather from a genuine desire to avoid missing
suitable patients who might benefit. Unfortunately, this therapeutic
zeal creates an enormous blind spot to the great risks that come with
overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment. This is a societal issue that
transcends psychiatry. It is not too late to save normality from DSM-V
if the greater public interest is factored into the necessary risk/
benefit analyses.
Allen Frances is professor emeritus and former chairman of the
department of psychiatry at Duke University.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci