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a reply to: TheGreatWork
Found this interesting video that talks about the DSM guidebook basically of modern psychology and how it was started.
originally posted by: Speedyone
So you guys don't think ANY of the diagnoses are accurate or valid?
Do any of you think that the behaviors and thought patterns exhibited aren't "illnesses" per se, rather they are ONLY deviations from an accepted norm?
So how would you describe a person who is compelled to wash their hands 100 times a day because they fear germs, or someone who is compelled to only take even numbers of steps?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is very real, I assure you.
I could accept someone saying that it's "a neurological aberration resulting in repetitive behaviors" INSTEAD of calling it an "illness."
However, to claim that ALL psychiatric diagnoses, even those present in people with organic (ie, structural,) and verifiable evidence is just a "deviation from the norm" is incredibly ignorant.
originally posted by: TheGreatWork
Found this interesting video that talks about the DSM guidebook basically of modern psychology and how it was started. It goes into diagnosis's being completely made up and fabricated, and the history of how and why they do it. This guy's channel Jerry Marzinsky also has some other good videos and truth drops of the world of psychiatry, psychology, etc, including some supernatural explanations.
originally posted by: TheGreatWork
It goes into diagnosis's being completely made up and fabricated, and the history of how and why they do it.
originally posted by: TheGreatWork
truth drops of the world of psychiatry, psychology, etc, including some supernatural explanations.