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life can be a real adventure hot fast
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slower sad maybe sometimes even filled
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with ups and downs but according to
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psychiatrists any part of life can be
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labeled a mental illness really like
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what let's say you're upset after a bad
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breakup well that could be labeled
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depression what if you're nervous before
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speaking in public anxiety disorder or
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being really talkative and super active
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manic that sounds a little crazy
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it does but how much does this really
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happen let's go ask how many people do
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you know that I've been diagnosed with a
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mental disorder diagnosed with a mental
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that got off the top of my head maybe
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one person that I know who's been
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diagnosed with a mental disorder
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probably just one so yeah maybe two or
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three people maybe in the three or four
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range or four or five maybe five six
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people in the household six seven ten
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dozen or so about 20 but 30 would
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definitely be in the hundreds in short
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the total number of people that I know
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in mind and my lifetime has been
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diagnosed with a mental disorder
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probably all around the range of 100 to
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150 and I'm 23 years old
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Wow where are these disorders all coming
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from from psychiatry's Diagnostic and
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Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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its 943 pages long and covers everything
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from depression and anxiety to
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stuttering cigarette addiction fear of
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spiders nightmares problems with math
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and even disorder of infancy all
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reinterpreted and many falsely labeled
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as a brain disease but people do have
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serious problems in life absolutely
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but psychiatrists reduce them down to
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something wrong with your brain so let
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me get this straight
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psychiatrists have a book of life
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problems reinterpreted as mental
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disorders that's right Wow then it must
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be backed up by a lot of science you
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think so but it isn't psychiatrists at
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one of their recent conventions admitted
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to it
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listen to this the SM is made up by
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Committees of men who have political
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opinion and women too who have biases
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and political opinions and so there
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isn't nearly as much science in DSM as
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there ought to be like in the previous
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one people had a meeting in the bathroom
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and they decided that something should
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be in there and then they would go and
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propose it to the whole committee have
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this kind of lumping together several of
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several observations and when you get
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enough of them in one tent you got a
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diagnosis DSM system it's not your real
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system of diagnosis a lot of the
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disorders that are in there haven't
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necessarily been rigorously validated
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it's just the best tool that we have
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available but it is not perfect it's so
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useless that if you give me a patient
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and the DSM I'll make at least 20
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diagnosis on the same patient you have
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to take it with a grain
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it's actually getting more and more
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complicated we're left with diagnosing
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things in the basis of checklists and
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questionnaires which leaves us sort of
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out of as you said the rest of Medicine
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because we don't have a biological test
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amazing the lack of science in the dsm
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is actually an open secret here's what
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some professionals have to say about it
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the DSM is a sham it's been described as
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a house of cards why because the
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diagnoses are theoretical they're not
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based on scientific measurements it's
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sort of a shaky level built on another
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shaky level built on another shaky level
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it is flimsy and that it is easily
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collapsible under the scrutiny of
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critical thinking if you just pull one
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little fragment of the reasoning aside
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and questioning thoroughly you'll find
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it doesn't stand up and then that means
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that the whole organism collapses
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because you've got some wrong premises
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in there somewhere and that they're all
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over the person it is indeed house of
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cards because it's predicated on not a
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solid structure it is built to create an
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apparently legitimate edifice which
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results in a diagnosis but any serious
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inquiry
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was shown to be eligible now in school
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authorities tell a mother as you already
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heard that her son is sick and needs to
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be on drugs how in the world is she to
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know that that is simply alive how is
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she to recognize that what experts now
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call attention deficit hyperactivity
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disorder is simply not a disease now
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such a mother is not an expert in the
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history of psychiatry she does not know
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that psychiatrists have for hundreds of
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years use diagnostic terms so called
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diagnostic terms to stigmatize and
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control people I will only give you a
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few dramatic examples when black slaves
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in the South ran away to freedom it
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wasn't that they wanted to be free they
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suffered from a disease called Repetto
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mania from droopy tees Rena be slave in
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mania I'm not being easy surplice was a
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legitimate diagnosis just like attention
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deficit disorder is women have sure
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population of mankind of course if they
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were foolish enough to rebel against
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domination by men but then they had a
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serious disease called hysteria which
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was due to their wandering room now none
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of those behaviors was ever a disease
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and of course it's not a disease but
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note is attention deficit disorder a
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disease no behavior or misbehavior is a
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disease or can be a disease that's not
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what diseases are so it doesn't matter
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how a child behaves there is nothing to
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examine if he is sick then there must be
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some objective science to it which can
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be diagnosed by physicians and objective
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tests it's very as soon as you go to a
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doctors they take a lot of blood and
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take x-rays they don't want to hear how
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you behave when I'm into medical school
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sixty years ago they were only a handful
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of mental diseases I think there were no
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more than six or seven now there are
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more than 300 and new ones are quotes
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discovered every day labeling a child as
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mentally ill is stigmatization not
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diagnosis giving a child a psychiatric
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drug is poisoning not treatment diseases
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are malfunctions of the human body of
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the heart the liver the kidneys the
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brain and so forth typhoid fever is a
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disease you will know that you don't
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question that spring fever
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what you have to know is English spring
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fever is not a disease now why not
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because we all know that it's a figure
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of speech
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a metaphor a little piece of poetry now
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so our all mental disease this mental
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disease is a metaphor the task we set
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ourselves to combat psychiatric coercion
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is important I think it's important you
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think it's important not enough people
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think it's important it's a noble task a
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task in the pursuit of which we must
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regardless or obstacles persevere our
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conscience commands that we do knowledge
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said to a psychiatrist who saw me again
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for maybe about 15 minutes
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talked to me how I was doing at seven
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years old and I left with the
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prescription for Ritalin
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probably within the first 15 minutes he
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diagnosed me with having anxiety
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disorder and put me on prescription
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medication the amount of time it took
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for the diagnosis was I'd say probably
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within 10 minutes is you know I was
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diagnosed with anxiety with depression
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within 10 minutes of speaking to the
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psychiatrist and I was put on those
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drugs immediately I received numerous
08:33
different diagnoses
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different doctors and each one gave me a
08:39
different drug I didn't have to undergo
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any tests I didn't even have to sit
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there and I did enough to ask any
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questions it was just that's that's what
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got and this is the drug they really
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didn't talk to me they were always
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talking and questioning my mother it was
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all about getting the information from
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her and not from me it don't make sense
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to me I researched it I've done my
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research and I still can't fully
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understand how you can diagnose somebody
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with a short attention span there was
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never an explanation nobody really knew
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what it was or why it was caused or how
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did you get it
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why did anybody have it and what could
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anybody do about it you know just here
09:21
have some medicine and going and I was
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put on I mean a horses dose of an
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antidepressant called effectual 450
09:30
milligrams a day I mean they say if your
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own 300 year comatose it wasn't always
09:35
readily it was went from ritalin to like
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well you trying to concerta
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to adderall I remember asking these
09:43
doctors is there any other way we can do
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this is there any other therapy is there
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something we can do that won't make me
09:48
feel so badly that won't give me all
09:51
these side effects and and just horrible
09:53
sensations to my body 24 hours a day is
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there something else I can do that might
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be not having to do with medications
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doctor said no see what you have is very
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complex you have a chemical and balance
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in your brain that the only thing that
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can correct it is medication
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Wow lots of diagnosis but all you seem
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to get his meds
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no the disorder in the classification
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does not require that there be knowledge
10:19
about its etiology so in other words to
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make a diagnosis you really don't need
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to bother with cause and effect you
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don't need to know what causes the
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condition wait a minute
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if the DSM doesn't tell you what causes
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its mental disorders how does
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psychiatrists discover them in the first
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place the answer may surprise you
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new diseases are being invented all the
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time and I want to emphasize the word
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invented because when it comes to
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psychiatry mental illnesses are not
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discovered they're invented the way the
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system works in terms of diagnosis is
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that every few years a group of
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psychiatrists and psychologists sit
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around in a room and vote on new
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diagnoses this is science
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I can't believe it don't worry you're
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not alone these are voted on
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what do you mean did you say are they
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voted into existence voted as in
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creative oh yeah I think that's kind of
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ridiculous it's crazy that you would
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vote I definitely don't agree I don't
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agree with it at all mental disorders
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should be based on scientific research I
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have been led to believe that it's all
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based on medicine and science so I'm
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kind of shocked to find that out me too
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there's more not only our mental
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disorders voted into the DSM but now and
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then they are also voted out
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take for example homosexuality listed in
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DSM's 1 & 2 as a mental illness this is
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how the editor-in-chief of the DSM 3
11:50
Robert Spitzer explained it I came up
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with the definition in 1973 that made it
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possible to argue that homosexuality was
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not a mental disorder on a vote
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essentially at a conference of the
12:06
American Psychiatric Association it was
12:08
removed now did they discover that
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homosexuality was not a disease through
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scientific processes no it was included
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for political reasons and it was removed
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for political reasons and the end result
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is a has a vote it's done it's a
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supposed democracy so to call it science
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is is a complete fabrication so the DSM
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is actually political not scientific
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right
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I thought psychiatrists wanted to be
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seen as doctors you're right that's why
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they had to make their manual look much
12:54
more scientific which it wasn't so what
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did they do that well they decided the
12:59
DSM next edition was going to be
13:00
completely different it was a decision
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that would change psychiatry forever if
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you roll a clock forward to the 1970s in
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the United States basically that time
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psychiatry was in very poor shape for a
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number of reasons first of all it was
13:18
helping very low regard by other members
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of the medical profession
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so socotra was the sort of thing you did
13:24
if you couldn't succeed in any other
13:26
area of Medicine and people such as
13:28
Robert Spitzer in America made it very
13:31
clear the time had come essentially for
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psychiatrists being doctors of Medicine
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to practice medicine so if the
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psychiatrist was spending a lot of time
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dealing with people who were anxious
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depressed these dilemmas these problems
13:50
in living now essentially had to be
13:53
redefined and they were really found as
13:57
medical conditions the solution to this
13:59
was to come up with a manual which
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defined psychiatric disorders more
14:04
carefully so hence we have DSM 3 which
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is the third edition which is published
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in 1980 under spitzer psychiatrist
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editing the dsm 3 through out Freudian
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psychology and decreed that from now on
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psychiatry's diagnoses were purely
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biological so they finally became
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scientific no actually not at all in
14:27
fact the political bickering over what
14:30
disorders to put in and what to leave
14:32
out of the DSM 3 was even more
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ridiculous here's what one psychiatrist
14:36
had to say about it
14:38
would squeeze into a room which is about
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half the size of this one was much too
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small and Bob would raise a provocative
14:46
question and people would shout out
14:50
their opinions from all sides of the
14:52
room and whoever shouted loudest tended
14:55
to be heard my own impression is more
14:58
like a tobacco auction than the sort of
15:02
conference and this is what another
15:04
member of the DSM decision-making panel
15:06
said the low level of intellectual
15:09
effort was shocking diagnosis were
15:11
developed by majority vote on the level
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we would use to choose a restaurant you
15:16
feel like Italian I feel like Chinese so
15:18
let's go to a cafeteria then it's typed
15:21
into the computer it may replace it our
15:23
naivete but it was our belief that there
15:25
would be an attempt to look at things
15:27
scientifically sounds like they had a
15:31
diagnostic manual that looked more
15:32
scientific but had no more science in it
15:35
than before meanwhile the number of
15:37
mental disorders in the DSM 3 had
15:39
ballooned to 259 but to sell the idea
15:43
that psychiatry was a true medical
15:45
science they had to spin it with a
15:47
really impressive scientific sounding
15:49
theory but with DSM 3 from 1980 on there
15:53
was the progressive medicalization of
15:55
psychiatry
15:57
and the notion of chemical imbalance was
15:59
invented and essentially took hold well
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chemical what chemical imbalance theory
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it was first suggested in 1965 to try to
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explain how depression might be caused
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by an imbalance of certain brain
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chemicals I'd like to hear this Joseph
16:15
shield kraut theorized that because
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psychiatric drugs alter the levels of
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some of these chemicals then mental
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illness must be caused by too much or
16:23
too little of them isn't that backwards
16:26
it sure is it's a little like saying
16:28
that because aspirin stops a headache
16:29
that headaches are caused by the
16:31
deficiency of aspirin I see what you
16:33
mean
16:34
but it was just convincing enough to
16:36
give psychiatry and the DSM 3 the
16:39
superficial aura of science as Robert
16:42
Spitzer put it cigar be felt now cheaper
16:46
more scientific were part of medicine so
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it worked yes and ever since then
16:52
psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical
16:54
industry have relentlessly promoted this
16:57
chemical imbalance theory both to the
16:59
medical field and the public if you are
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one of the millions of people who live
17:03
with uncontrollable worry anxiety and
17:05
several of these symptoms for six months
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or more you could be suffering from
17:08
generalized anxiety disorder and two
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chemical imbalance could be to blame
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pristiq is thought to work by affecting
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the levels of two chemicals in the brain
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it works to correct chemical imbalances
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in the brain which may be related to
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symptoms of social anxiety disorder
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cymbalta works on serotonin and
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norepinephrine hundreds of thousands of
17:26
patients have been prescribed abilify
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ask your doctor if your doctor talk to
17:30
your doctor call your doctor ask your
17:32
about cymbalta pristiq is a key in
17:34
helping to treat my depression ask your
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doctor about pristiq you come to my
17:40
office and I say to you well you you
17:43
describe what's going on in your life
17:44
and and your symptoms and I said well
17:46
it's clear to me that you've got a
17:46
chemical imbalance and we're going to
17:48
write you a prescription for this the
17:49
truth of the matter is there's no such
17:51
thing as a chemical imbalance there's no
17:53
test out there that they can depend on
17:56
that tells you you have a chemical
17:57
imbalance there's actually in fact
17:59
dozens of studies showing that there
18:02
isn't any measurable imbalance so
18:05
psychiatrists will explain to patients
18:07
all the time this is just like diabetes
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and diabetes you have low insulin we
18:12
have to readjust the insulin level in
18:13
depression you have low serotonin we
18:16
have to readjust the serotonin level but
18:19
actually we have already proven that
18:20
there's nothing wrong with serotonin
18:22
levels it's completely a myth disproven
18:25
by our own evidence okay if we apply
18:27
these labels what next and the what next
18:31
tends to be you get a prescription and
18:33
the prescription is for a drug that
18:34
doesn't work very well and is toxic it's
18:36
like a one-two punch the the number one
18:39
of the one-two punch is the diagnostic
18:42
manual you've got all these disorders to
18:44
choose from that the two is the
18:46
treatment so you've got the diagnostic
18:48
manual in place you've got a machinery
18:50
in place and then you've got this
18:52
treatment that is there for the taking
18:55
for everything you can think of that
18:58
might seem to be odd behavior the
19:01
psychiatry field has a name for it and
19:04
then for every name of every diagnosis
19:07
you have there's gonna be pharmacology
19:09
behind it and they have a pill for it
19:12
let me fan it out and pick a card and
19:14
there you go
19:15
here's your label and there's the drug
19:17
give you to go along with that label 98%
19:20
maybe 99% of people will get a diagnosis
19:23
that justifies the use of a medication
19:25
and also a follow-up appointment because
19:29
remember the the business of medicine
19:33
the business of psychiatry is seeing
19:34
patients and the psychiatrist that tells
19:37
a patient they don't have a problem and
19:39
there's no medicine for that problem
19:41
doesn't have a very busy practice and
19:44
that's sort of the purpose of the DSC in
19:45
three four five to provide a diagnosis
19:49
that can be given a drug for their
19:51
patient it's a quick buck you don't need
19:54
to do a physical exam you put it in the
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chart it's done prescribe away lifetime
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patient
