… and while we’re on the subject of health. It’s kind of Amazing that Americans will ignore all kinds of real health dangers, but invent all kinds of diseases that are not real.

A friend sent me an article about the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders which is the psychiatrists bible. If can’t sleep after you drink too much coffee, you are not an idiot, you have
292.89: Caffeine-Induced Sleep Disorder F15.8, and of course there is a mind-altering drug available.

It also turns out that your kid is not a disobedient, ill-mannered brat, but has a combination of 313.81: Oppositional Defiant Disorder F91.3 and 312.8: Conduct Disorder F91. The recommended treatment, of course, is not grounding or a good spanking, but drugs to alter the child’s brain chemistry.

It’s as if life itself has become some kind of medical condition.

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