Is Free Thinking a mental illness? Wait for details, please?

Wait for details, please! prisonplanet.com/is-free-thinking-a-ment... do you think? Or do you think?

Be careful...it might get you into trouble! Asked by childof1truegod 17 months ago Similar Questions: Free Thinking mental illness Wait details Recent Questions About: Free Thinking mental illness Wait details Society.

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For starters, author of the article seems unaware of the fact that the DSM-IV has been out since 1994. The new DSM is the DSM-V. This is not a good sign that the author is doing a lot of thinking.

It's not a typo; it's done several times. Further, had the author actually read the definition of ODD, it would not that it includes:A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months, during which four (or more) of the following are present: (1) often loses temper (2) often argues with adults (3) often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules (4) often deliberately annoys people (5) often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior (6) is often touchy or easily annoyed by others (7) is often angry and resentful (8) is often spiteful or vindictive "Free thinking" does not connote hostility, temper, anger, or deliberately annoying people, and these are necessary to the diagnosis. It sounds to me as if the author gets told "no" a lot and responds with hostility, and imagines that it's because he's a "free thinker" rather than ODD.

Or perhaps just a jackass. In fact, I am unable to distinguish between the criteria for ODD and the state of being a jackass. The author's underlying point, buried, is that maybe we are over-medicalizing psychiatric conditions.

That's entirely possible. As I just pointed out, the author might be diagnosed with ODD when I suspect he really is a hostile imbecile who imagines himself oppressed. The author also seems to feel that the expansion of the DSM is some sort of plot.

In reality, psychiatry is an extremely young field, continually and rapidly evolving. The new DSM is also full of faults, and the DSM-VI will be radically different. The author will, however, most likely remain dim-witted and paranoid, whatever terms the DSM decides to apply in future versions.

Whether those are treatable disorders or just unfortunate facts of life will be up to future generations of psychiatrists.

Hmmm...interesting reply, thanks. Childof1truegod 17 months ago .

Thanks for your thoughts. Childof1truegod 17 months ago .

Well, if you're a global warming denier or a Obama hater,, you're obviously mentally ill and should be locked up! They did something like this is Russia. Off to the gulags with you if you don't agree with the government!

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LOL! I definetely disagree with the current administrations policies so I might be in danger of being defiant! ;~P childof1truegod 17 months ago .

I guess it all in how you use the term. Do you really believe that people who don't follow YOUR religious beliefs are insane? Or that everyone who is a free thinker is a conspiracy theorist?

If one does then maybe they need a shrink.

LOL! No, I really was kind of looking at it from the other end of the spectrum, I was thinking that I often get grief from people who think I am insane/less intelligent/delusional because I don't agree with THEIR ideologies and beliefs. Childof1truegod 17 months ago .

Nah. Evil? Yes.

I'm going to burn in eternal hellfire for reading scriptures and finding the conflicting texts, the holes. For remembering the reality of the Bush years and what happened during that time. For not hating those who are hated by the new funded in-crowd.

For being repulsed by KKK types and John Birchers hiding behind a new moniker. I'm bonkers and need to be lynched.

I bet not everything.... childof1truegod 17 months ago .

This guy is obviously seeking to justify bias utilizing misinformation and skewered facts. He is drawing a simple-minded conclusion, attaching a sensationalized title and what you have is crap. What is the 'healthy' kind of thinking if free thinking is a disease, (LOL), 'imprisoned thinking, bound thinking or conformist thinking?

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Just a guess...I'm not good at conforming, you see! ;~) childof1truegod 17 months ago .

Good for you. Conforming creates copies. We are all unique.

I'm a little intrigued at how the psychiatrists have turned their supposedly "medical" tome into a cultural touchstone. When being a homosexual became too popular to set aside, it stopped being a "mental illness. " Now that we've all these "ADD" and "ADHD" and "acting out" in our face, being the kind of person who left home, traveled 9,000 miles, and set up a home in a new land now IS a "mental illness.

" I can only think of how a (near) future government will find ways to use this one. “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” . .

. Doesn't that sound like some of the recent political protests? .

That is the like of thought that I was wandering along....my thoughts and actions recently (last five years or so) would definetely qualify me for this defiant "disease. Childof1truegod 17 months ago .

Actually, the DSM-IV is still in use. It was updated in 2000. The DSM-V is still in development and is not scheduled for publication until 2013.

http://www.psych.org/MainMenu/Research/DSMIV/DSMIVTR.aspxhttp://www.psych.org/MainMenu/Research/DSMIV/DSMV.aspx .

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