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We are, officially, all mad and should be locked up

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday June 18, 2003 11:47author by Dr. Freud

The psychiatric associations of Europe and America, along with the World Health Organisation (WHO I hear you say...) have managed to classify the actions of most who use this, and similar, sites as being mad and worthy of treatment such as boot camp (US) shock therapy (Eu) and other forms of drugging deemed useful in breaking down the upstarts who think that there is something wrong with the world today.

Do you suffer from Antisocial Personality Disorder? Or maybe Oppositional Defiant Disorder? If you're not sure go to your nearest "I'll make you feel normal" shrink and they'll give you diognosis.

Here is a do it yourself:

Antisocial Personality disorder (© 1992 by World Health Organization), usually coming to attention because of a gross disparity between behaviour and the prevailing social norms, and characterized by at least 3 of the following:

(a) callous unconcern for the feelings of others;
(b) gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules and obligations;
(c) incapacity to maintain enduring relationships, though having no difficulty in establishing them;
(d) very low tolerance to frustration and a low threshold for discharge of aggression, including violence;
(e) incapacity to experience guilt and to profit from experience, particularly punishment;
(f) marked proneness to blame others, or to offer plausible rationalizations, for the behaviour that has brought the patient into conflict with society.

There may also be persistent irritability as an associated feature. Conduct disorder during childhood and adolescence, though not invariably present, may further support the diagnosis.

Do you suffer from three of the above? Then be sure to go to a hospital immeadiatley for proper treatment.

If not, read on:

Diagnostic Criteria
A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months, during which four (or more) of the following are present:
often loses temper
often argues with adults
often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules
often deliberately annoys people
often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
is often touchy or easily annoyed by others
is often angry and resentful
is often spiteful or vindictive
Note: Consider a criterion met only if the behavior occurs more frequently than is typically observed in individuals of comparable age and developmental level.

The disturbance in behavior causes clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning.
The behaviors do not occur exclusively during the course of a Psychotic or Mood Disorder.
Criteria are not met for Conduct Disorder, and, if the individual is age 18 years or older, criteria are not met for Antisocial Personality Disorder.


Again, can you match your personality from any of the above?

Here is a story of someone who was diagnosed as having ODD:
Just call them crazy, by Stevphen Shukaitis, WireTap
Alex Asch probably never thought he would be
forced by police,
private security, his parents, and the weight of
the law to leave his
choice of studies for a Mormon boot camp -- but
on August 10,
2002 that's exactly what happened.

Alex was attending the Institute for Social
Ecology, a radically
inclined institution of higher education located
in Plainfield, Vermont. It was the last day of
summer classes when his parents hired two
juvenile transport officers to remove him from
the Institute. After removing him from the school
he was forced to go to Turnabout
Stillwater, a juvenile rehabilitation program
located in Utah affiliated with the Mormon
church. There he will be held against his will
until his 18th birthday in June 2004.
For more:
http://www.wiretapmag.org/story.html?StoryID=16151

This is basically another tactic in breaking and undermining the youth movement.

But to think that way i must be ODD



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