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Psychiatric �Illness�
From the first Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) which named 112 mental
disorders, to the latest edition that now includes 374 such disorders,
the criteria used for psychiatric diagnoses are a parody of science-based
illnesses.
Used by psychiatrists to
bilk hospitals, governments and insurance, they give medicine a bad name. The
billable list includes: Caffeine-Related Disorder DSM Page 212, Conduct
Disorder DSM Page 85, Expressive Language Disorder DSM Page 55,
Mathematics Disorder DSM Page 50 and Disorder of Written Expression DSM
Page 51.
By inventing more and more mental illnesses for inclusion in the DSM
and initiating expansion campaigns to increase market penetration, psychiatry
has garnered millions in book sales alone and far more in government appropriations
� with no commensurate benefit to society.
Psychiatrists� techniques
are no more scientific today than 200 years ago when they used bumps on the
skull to decide a person�s character.
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