The Latest Psychiatric Fraud -- Political Attention Deficit Disorder (PADD)

This just in -- the latest in delusional disorders, invented to get us to pay our tax dollars to cover "health care" for things that don't exist. This one is called Political Attention Deficit Disorder and no, I'm afraid it is not a joke (that is to say the joke is on all of us, but these "authorities" are deadly serious!).

"According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic and widespread affliction of Americans be officially declared a psychiatric disorder. It has been named the Political Attention Deficit Disorder (PADD). It is recommended that the disorder be included in a widely used mental illness manual created and published by the American Psychiatric Association. The current manual was published in 1994; the next edition is to be completed in 2012. The benefit to people of an official classification is coverage by health insurance."

For shame. We are not paying enough for health insurance that we have to dream up outrageous, fraudulent "disorders" as this?

Ah, but who's really behind this, do you think? You don't suppose that Big Pharma is ready to "reveal" their latest wonder drug to revitalize our patriotic fervor and get us down to the voting booth, the first Tuesday of November, do you?

And if that weren't hard enough to swallow, check this out: "Reached by phone, Dr. Aaron Gestaltstein, a Council member and psychiatrist with the Michigan Institute for the Study of Individual and Societal Health, said the AMA proposal will help raise awareness and called it 'the right thing to do if the United States is ever to regain effective government and equitable public policies.' 'Sick Americans deserve compassionate treatment if our country is to survive. PADD is no joke,' he added.

OMIGOD! And here I was hoping the whole thing was a troll!

Let's just take a step back and look at this. What can we do to prevent drugging 80% of our population who have been driven down into apathy by inept leadership and lousy education that leaves them unable to adequately participate in their civil responsibilities. (and by the way, I don't for a minute believe these figures of 80%, and I can't imagine how they dreamed it up!).

Here are things we can do to remedy this:L. Ron Hubbard described in the book The Problems of Work in the 1950's. Just take a walk and look around at the environment until you feel extroverted. He explains why and how this works in the book, but all you have to do is get out and walk, even if you feel exhausted (and especially if that's how you feel).

2. Improve your ability to understand political issues by boosting your functional literacy. Functional literacy is the ability to apply what you read. The Scientology Handbook has a chapter on the technology of study. Very easy to read and learn, and when you use it, Voila, you can understand what you are reading much better.

3. Get out and do something to help someone. I recommend checking out the Volunteer Ministers web site, as that's my favorite web volunteer group, but there are so many groups working hard and doing good. Dedicate a bit of your time to providing some unconditional help.

4. Ignore those who would like you to believe that living is a disease. It is most definitely not. It is part of LIFE to experience emotions.

If I've learned anything in Scientology it's that you CAN improve your life and it's not hard to do. And it certainly doesn't require the latest Big Pharma invention (which we later find out has a 70% failure rate so they had to invent a new one.)

It is NOT illogical to feel apathetic about an unresponsive government that thinks it's perfectly okay to ignore a record low 26% approval rating and continue to act with a total disregard of what the public actually needs and wants.

Wait a minute. The AMA/APA were wrong. It's not 80% of use who have PADD yet. It's only 74%. 26% still approve of the way the government is being administered!

posted by: jbasoon at 02:53 | link | comments (1) |

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#1  27 June 2007 - 15:02

 

How do they get away with it? It's up to people to start saying "NO!"

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