XPost: ba.politics, alt.politics.libertarian, soc.culture.british   
   XPost: soc.culture.usa, alt.psychology, alt.support.depression.manic   
   From: telstra5@tpg.com.au   
      
   xyz@hotmail.com wrote in   
   news:3jcof2hmll8jf772v3s8i4idlo6aiehaho@4ax.com:   
      
   > On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:58:48 GMT, "Goldcoastbeeper"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>so you're working under the idea that it would be better campain to   
   >>cut the funding rather than campain to reform the services and made   
   >>them more effective?   
   >   
   > Sure. Overfunding is a major cause of people wanting to "expand" their   
   > organizational powers into frivolous areas so that the gravy train can   
   > continue. Happens all over.   
   >   
   > The DSM IV itself has many of these frivolous classifications also.   
   > All signs of a bloated discipline that needs to have its funding cut   
   > so it can get rid of the deadwood and concentrate on things it does   
   > best (that is, assuming that there is something that it actually does   
   > well). Once "coffee nerves" has made it into the DSM (whic it has;   
   > Sec. 305.90, as well as the inability to sleep after drinking too much   
   > coffee, Sec. 292.89) along with shyness (299.80), and being clumsy   
   > (315.4), I think that it is time that the whole profession underwent a   
   > major re-structuring and downsizing. It is quite obvious there are too   
   > many of them with not enough important things to do.   
   >   
   > XYZ   
   >   
   >>"pig"  wrote in message   
   >>news:Xns983433CB5F00whatsgoingdownclown@203.26.24.228...   
   >>> crack baby  wrote in news:t%HDg.12184$gY6.10585   
   >>> @newssvr11.news.prodigy.com:   
   >>>   
   >>>>  and as a result just about every annoying behavior   
   >>>> humans might exhibit is re-defined as "antisocial behaviour" and   
   >>>> the offender sentenced to counseling or therapy in a re-education   
   >>>> centre.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> i know hey, its very bad like this in australia, where you have   
   >>> people being locked up for every reason too. If a teenager rebels   
   >>> from his over strict controlling parents he is easily locked up   
   >>> involuntarily...   
   >>>   
   >>> very sad, i have always argued that the problem is not that its   
   >>> under funded contrary to popular beleif. You are right, the greedy   
   >>> fucks have too   
   >>> much cash and they are wasting it and not treating those who have   
   >>> real problems.   
   >>   
   >   
      
   the history of the DSM and the politics behind why and when "mental   
   illness'" were added, deleted or re-added is rather entertaining. Once   
   you browse through a DSM you realise there is not one sane person on the   
   planet according to this book. LOL. they actually sit around and vote on   
   which mental illness to include. like an old boys club. rather funny.   
      
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