Tag Archives: mental disorder

The Australian: Psychiatry’s alarming medicalization of human behavior for their “bible of mental disorders” the DSM

MEDICAL advances can take your breath away. Over the past decade, medical experts have started decoding the human genome to provide genetically-personalised medicine. The experts behind these advances are geniuses. Perhaps in the same vein, the psychiatric profession imagines that their new bible of mental disorders — more than 10 years in the making — will be hailed as milestone of medical achievement. If so, they’d be wrong.

Number of Prescriptions Written in UK for Antidepressants Nearly Equals Entire Population

Writing in the Guardian, Ed Halliwell examines the reason for this trend, noting that antidepressant prescriptions have increased more than threefold since the beginning of the 1990s, far outstripping the increase in the percentage of the population classified with a “common mental disorder.”

Study in journal Science: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is an actual virus/infectious disease not a “mental disorder”

Dr. Judy A. Mikovits, the lead author of the paper published online Thursday in the journal Science, which found that 68 of 101 patients with the syndrome, or 67 percent, were infected with an infectious virus, said, “I think this establishes what had always been considered a psychiatric disease as an infectious disease.”

Push to pathologize Internet use as a ‘mental disorder’ for inclusion in psychiatry’s billing bible-the DSM

As psychiatrists start to organize the next edition of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a debate has started on whether to include Internet addiction among our newest afflictions.

Teen Screen, Cynical Deception, Dangerous Illusion

As human beings we have a strong natural impulse to protect our kids from harm. As a society we create norms, laws and institutions to protect, educate and nurture our young.