DSACDAD Part one
think I might have DSACDAD. I took the quiz on this site and scored a 48.
What is your professional opinion?
http://havidol.com/
KC
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My take on DSACDAD: Just because someone creates a name, doesn't make it real. I do not like the Website AT ALL. "Good, better, best" suggests that even if you feel like you're okay, you can feel even better. "More than 50% of the population have DSACAD" is an unrealistic assumption that half the population should be taking a psychotropic drug - that can't be a good idea. I went away from the Website thinking Havidol is better than meth, and that you take either one for the same reasons.
A few years ago, there was much debate in the medical community about how pharmaceutical companies will get FDA approval for a drug to treat some disease, then how they go out and MAKE a huge population of people who have that disease. For example, they create "grass roots" campaigns to "increase awareness" and sponsor .org websites and charity organizations. One step further, is making up a brand new disease as pointed out in this article in the British Medical Journal in 2003: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/45 . There is much professional commentary published elsewhere on this whole topic.
To make the behavioral disease conspiracy stronger, coverage of mental health by government and private insurers is federally mandated:
http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/newsroom/fsmhparity.html. The 1996 Federal law basically says mental health has to be covered as part as health insurance. Many states have made additional laws that say mental health coverage has to at the SAME level as medical health coverage.
There is money to be made on treating "mental health disorders" for sure.
The branch of mainstream medicine that is least based on science (evidence-based medicine) is behavioral health. There are essentially no lab tests, no x-rays, no distinct physical signs or symptoms that can pinpoint a mental health disorder. Many times, the difference between having a mental health disorder and not having one boils down to how a mental health professional judges you against descriptive, and very subjective criteria. See: http://psyweb.com/Mdisord/DSM_IV/jsp/dsm_iv.jsp Criteria are sometimes based on little more than a society's expectation of what "normal" mental status is.
The risk is then that we have millions of children who have patterns of subjective misbehavior on psychotropic medication. Or worse, "disease" being used to control social dissonance http://www.aapsonline.org/nod/newsofday339.php. Or, we have people like you and me thinking we are deranged because we answered "yes" to few questions on an On-line mental health quiz.
Okay, rest assured, there is such thing as mental health disease. Read the recent domestic news, and you're convinced. And, rest assured, psychotropic drugs have changed our society for the better. We no longer have vast insane asylums, and we will all have times in our lives when a psychotropic medication will probably be beneficial to help us through. I think the average persons mental health capacity is challenged more intensely today than say compared to 20 or 30-years ago. We have more expectations on us and our world has much more in it and moves much faster than then. Either that, or we're better able to recognize that medicine can help versus the attitudes of a generation ago. (By the way, this observation carries over to children, see: http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/add/nimh/treatment_study_children.htm )
A good litmus test for yourself, better than some On-line quiz, is to recognize when an irrational behavior, or a state-of-mind leads you to irrational behavior that seriously interferes with you living your life, like sleep, work, school, or relationships. Watch out, sometimes it takes another person to point out that your behavior is truly irrational.
What is your professional opinion?
http://havidol.com/
KC
Reply>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
My take on DSACDAD: Just because someone creates a name, doesn't make it real. I do not like the Website AT ALL. "Good, better, best" suggests that even if you feel like you're okay, you can feel even better. "More than 50% of the population have DSACAD" is an unrealistic assumption that half the population should be taking a psychotropic drug - that can't be a good idea. I went away from the Website thinking Havidol is better than meth, and that you take either one for the same reasons.
A few years ago, there was much debate in the medical community about how pharmaceutical companies will get FDA approval for a drug to treat some disease, then how they go out and MAKE a huge population of people who have that disease. For example, they create "grass roots" campaigns to "increase awareness" and sponsor .org websites and charity organizations. One step further, is making up a brand new disease as pointed out in this article in the British Medical Journal in 2003: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/45 . There is much professional commentary published elsewhere on this whole topic.
To make the behavioral disease conspiracy stronger, coverage of mental health by government and private insurers is federally mandated:
http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/newsroom/fsmhparity.html. The 1996 Federal law basically says mental health has to be covered as part as health insurance. Many states have made additional laws that say mental health coverage has to at the SAME level as medical health coverage.
There is money to be made on treating "mental health disorders" for sure.
The branch of mainstream medicine that is least based on science (evidence-based medicine) is behavioral health. There are essentially no lab tests, no x-rays, no distinct physical signs or symptoms that can pinpoint a mental health disorder. Many times, the difference between having a mental health disorder and not having one boils down to how a mental health professional judges you against descriptive, and very subjective criteria. See: http://psyweb.com/Mdisord/DSM_IV/jsp/dsm_iv.jsp Criteria are sometimes based on little more than a society's expectation of what "normal" mental status is.
The risk is then that we have millions of children who have patterns of subjective misbehavior on psychotropic medication. Or worse, "disease" being used to control social dissonance http://www.aapsonline.org/nod/newsofday339.php. Or, we have people like you and me thinking we are deranged because we answered "yes" to few questions on an On-line mental health quiz.
Okay, rest assured, there is such thing as mental health disease. Read the recent domestic news, and you're convinced. And, rest assured, psychotropic drugs have changed our society for the better. We no longer have vast insane asylums, and we will all have times in our lives when a psychotropic medication will probably be beneficial to help us through. I think the average persons mental health capacity is challenged more intensely today than say compared to 20 or 30-years ago. We have more expectations on us and our world has much more in it and moves much faster than then. Either that, or we're better able to recognize that medicine can help versus the attitudes of a generation ago. (By the way, this observation carries over to children, see: http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/add/nimh/treatment_study_children.htm )
A good litmus test for yourself, better than some On-line quiz, is to recognize when an irrational behavior, or a state-of-mind leads you to irrational behavior that seriously interferes with you living your life, like sleep, work, school, or relationships. Watch out, sometimes it takes another person to point out that your behavior is truly irrational.
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