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Could ‘Temper Tantrums’ Soon Be Considered Mental Illness? American Psychiatrists to Vote on Major Changes

Dec. 1, 2012 4:24pm Erica Ritz

American Psychiatrists Voting on Changes to Diagnosis Manual: Temper Tantrums Could Become a Mental Disorder

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(TheBlaze/AP) — For the first time in almost two decades the nation’s psychiatrists are changing the guidebook they use to diagnose mental disorders. Among the most controversial proposed changes: Dropping certain familiar terms like Asperger’s disorder and dyslexia and calling frequent, severe temper tantrums a mental illness.

The board of trustees for the American Psychiatric Association voted Saturday in suburban Washington, D.C., on scores of revisions that have been in the works for several years. Details will come next May when the group’s fifth diagnostic manual is published.

The trustees made the final decision on what proposals made the cut; recommendations came from experts in several task force groups assigned to evaluate different mental illnesses.

Board members were tightlipped about the update, but its impact will be huge, affecting millions of children and adults worldwide.

The manual “defines what constellations of symptoms health care professionals recognize as mental disorders and more importantly … shapes who will receive what treatment. Even seemingly subtle changes to the criteria can have substantial effects on patterns of care,” said Dr. Mark Olfson, a Columbia University psychiatry professor who was not involved in the revision process.

The manual also is important for the insurance industry in deciding what treatment to pay for, and it helps schools decide how to allot special education.

The guidebook’s official title is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The new one is the fifth edition, known as the DSM-5. A 2000 edition made minor changes but the last major edition was published in 1994.

The manual “seeks to capture the current state of knowledge of psychiatric disorders. Since 2000 … there have been important advances in our understanding of the nature of psychiatric disorders,” Olfson said.

Expected changes include formally adopting a term for children and adults with autism – “autism spectrum disorder,” encompassing those with severe autism, who often don’t talk or interact, and those with mild forms including Asperger’s. Asperger’s patients often have high intelligence and vast knowledge on quirky subjects but lack social skills.

Some Asperger’s families opposed the change, fearing their kids would lose a diagnosis and no longer be eligible for special services. And some older Asperger’s patients who embrace their quirkiness vowed to continue to use the label.

But experts say the change won’t affect the special services available to this group.

Other proposed changes include:

-A new diagnosis – disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, which critics argued would medicalize kids’ normal temper tantrums, and possibly relieve them of the responsibility of their own actions. Supporters said it would address concerns about children being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and treated with powerful psychiatric drugs. Bipolar disorder involves sharp mood swings from feeling sad and depressed to unusually happy or energetic, and affected children are sometimes irritable or have explosive tantrums. The new diagnosis would be given to children and adults who can’t control their emotions and have frequent temper outbursts in inappropriate situations.

-Eliminating the term “dyslexia,” a reading disorder that causes difficulty understanding letters and recognizing written words. The term would be encompassed in a broader learning disorder category.

-Eliminating the term “gender identity disorder.” It has been used for children or adults who strongly believe that they were born the wrong gender – they dispute their normal biological anatomy. But many activists believe the condition isn’t a disorder and say calling it one is stigmatizing. The term would be replaced with “gender dysphoria,” which means emotional distress over one’s gender. Supporters equated the change with removing homosexuality as a mental illness in the diagnostic manual, which happened decades ago.

What do you think?

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hi
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:13pm
They should add “BDKD-1 Disorder.”

“Brain Damaged Koolaid Drinker-1

Anyone who believes you have to pass the bill to find out what is in the bill.”

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- SUNTZU
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 6:56pm
  What do you think,I think,you think,I”m thinking about when you see me looking at
  you thinking what I’m thinking
  What?
  Now Think about that for a while,then vote
  Psychiatrist=something you take for constipation
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:37pm
  This is what it is all about: “Some Asperger’s families opposed the change, fearing their kids would lose a diagnosis and no longer be eligible for special services.” Money, money, money.
  
  The APA makes decisions based more on political and social biases than on any objective science. They did the same in regards to homosexuality in the 70′s.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 10:14pm
  STOP my beating heart — I actually agree w/Jerk on this one!
  
  The APA at one point almost “came out” for adult-children sex, too. That got put back in a closet.
  
  I think w/this one, they want to drug the kids who spout off w/temper tantrums instead of letting Moms and Dads spank the temper back into control. My Mom’s favorite response to my ill humor was to turn the hose on me if we were outside or haul my noisy **** to the cold shower. Eventually I learned how to control my anger instead of letting it control me. Drugs short circuit that basic human need — to learn how to control one’s own self!
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 11:07pm
  Well said SUNZU, lol & JERK I agree with you $$$, $$$, chaching.
  
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- The Giver
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 11:57pm
  Imagine that… Loonie psychiatrists getting together and calling certain temper tantrums a mental illness. How long before the definition expands to cover many more temper tantrums.
  This smells of the U.N. again. They are trying to control disabled children’s lives. Check it out. They are working big time on disability issues and children’s issues. Give them more mentally ill(disabled) children and wham-o!
  I do believe that this is a back door way of taking the right to bear arms from future generations. Can’t have a gun if you are mentally ill.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 2:00am
  Yep, I’m with the Jerk, also.
  
  I must remember this day…
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 2:35am
  -A new diagnosis – disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, which critics argued would medicalize kids’ normal temper tantrums, and possibly relieve them of the responsibility of their own actions…
  ****
  First they make it “inappropriate” to discipline children so that they all throw temper tantrums when they don’t get their way, next they catalog it as mental illness. Who need to pass further gun control laws. It’s already illegal to own a gun if you suffer from mental illness, we have drones and cameras all over America, they’ll catch every kid born in the country throwing a tantrum at some time in their lives and no one can ever own a gun. (REMEMBER, THEY NOW ARE DIAGNOSING BIPOLAR DISORDER AT 6 MONTHS OF AGE TO MAKE SURE THE INFANT GETS PROPER TREATMENT!)
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 2:44am
  @Elena2010
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 10:14pm
  
  STOP my beating heart — I actually agree w/Jerk on this one!
  
  The APA at one point almost “came out” for adult-children sex, too. That got put back in a closet.
  
  I think w/this one, they want to drug the kids who spout off w/temper tantrums instead of letting Moms and Dads spank the temper back into control. My Mom’s favorite response to my ill humor was to turn the hose on me if we were outside or haul my noisy **** to the cold shower. Eventually I learned how to control my anger instead of letting it control me. Drugs short circuit that basic human need — to learn how to control one’s own self!
  ***
  May God reward your mom! I remember the day I spent hours getting my kids (4) all ready to go someplace dressy, I had them all combed, curled, dressed to the hilt and shoes shining, in the car and went back to make sure something was unplugged, they had a mud fight. I threw all 4 in the shower clothes and all and began scrubbing. I only had to give each one about 2 “mean showers” after that, kids learn. 3 of my 4 were hyperactive, we watched the diets and controlled with discipline, at about 13 the metabolism slowed so they liked naps, and they all learned self discipline! Not easy but it can be done. Number 4 was a genius (literally) and not about to let them outdo him, he’d always think of something.
  
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- rangerskippy
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 6:55am
  tantrums is a parent disorder.
  
  Parents lost their minds, and forgot how to take off a belt, and tear some **** out of the frame.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:55am
  MORE DOLLARS FOR PSYCO-DOCTORS is what it’s all about!!
  
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- AZRACISTBIGOT
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:10pm
  “Spare the rod and spoil the child”
  Everybody is a special victim these days
  I couldn’t have gotten away with throwing any temper tantrums when I was young. After the beating, I would have been diagnosed with “A$$ Burger” syndrome
  
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Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:11pm
Lets see, they want to remove confusion of gender identity as a disorder while labeling every kid that throws a tantrum as a psycho? Yup, that’s the Left at work, demonizing normal behavior while lionizing the deviant.

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- ConstitunalAmerican
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:25pm
  Yep, and what condition should we label the Psychiatric community, since they seem to have a liberal progressive disorder?
  
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- isobamamadd
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:45pm
  Everyone knows Commiefornia started this liberal stuff. But do you kno who started the indoctrination in our schools?
  The “new leaders” in the psychiatric field propose to re-educate the world’s population using psychological procedures to create a new breed of amoral men who will accept a one-world socialistic government. They hold the weapon of commitment to a mental institution over the heads of those “reactionaries” who rebel at accepting the “new social order.”
  The people who have been taught to believe whatever they were told by their parents or their teachers are the people who are the menace to the world. (Speech, Conference on Education, Asilomar, California, September 11, 1954)
  http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/chisholm.htm
  
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- KissMyAmericanFlag
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:47pm
  RE “The manual also is important for the insurance industry in deciding what treatment to pay for, and it helps schools decide how to allot special education.”
  
  Well Go-a-olly! Who’da thunk the insurance industry would join up with the APA with new labels for social deviants who fail to conform to the warped mindset of the ruling liberal elite class…? Evil takes many forms. What’re the odds pharma researchers have sold soul for the _rights_ to develop and promote _the cures_ for newest #ACA ailments, reason and humanity notwithstanding…?
  
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normalmom
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:05pm
The kids with temper tantrums are being placed in special classes where if they throw a fit they get to sit in a padded room. Sometimes these kids will throw a fit just to take a nap. If these pansy shrinks stopped criminalizing spanking you wouldn’t see anywhere near as many kids on medications or throwing a fit in public. Your kid throwing a fit cause you won’t get them the toy they want spank their ****, it will take solve the problem fast. However don’t do it out of anger and don’t paddle a bunch of times most kids one or two is plenty. If they still paddled at schools there wouldn’t be anywhere near the amount of garbage going on now.

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- Robinking
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:01pm
  You are 100% correct! Well written!
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 2:52am
  @normalmom
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:05pm
  
  The kids with temper tantrums are being placed in special classes where if they throw a fit they get to sit in a padded room. Sometimes these kids will throw a fit just to take a nap. If these pansy shrinks stopped criminalizing spanking you wouldn’t see anywhere near as many kids on medications or throwing a fit in public. Your kid throwing a fit cause you won’t get them the toy they want spank their ****, it will take solve the problem fast. However don’t do it out of anger and don’t paddle a bunch of times most kids one or two is plenty. If they still paddled at schools there wouldn’t be anywhere near the amount of garbage going on now.
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  As a 2nd grader my teacher would stand me in the fire escape for getting in trouble, I always got in trouble right before spelling class on Friday! She decided to bring in an old fashioned shoe store mirror and if we got in trouble we had to look in the mirror and slap ourselves in the face 10 times, if not hard enough she’d take our hand and help us do it. The other kids made fun of you, AND it hurt. I learned to be a good speller real quick, and quit getting into trouble.
  
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DZ-015
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:03pm
Who stands to make money off this diagnostic change? Once single payer comes in, the psych-O-logists will simply bill the government.

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- Mil Mom
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 2:57am
  @DZ-015
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:03pm
  
  Who stands to make money off this diagnostic change? Once single payer comes in, the psych-O-logists will simply bill the government
  ***
  Pay attention to how much of hitler’s pathway America has already walked down, then stop and think. The nazi’s decided it was too expensive to have the mentally disabled around so they used them for medical experiments, (along with the Jews) have you read that there’s an shortage of organ donors? Could we be seeing something else develop that we’ll have to watch like hawks?
  
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OldSurfRat
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:01pm
Ok so let me think about this. If you have a temper tantrum you now might be eligible for disability?

SWEET!!! Just from some of my past comments on the blaze alone means I’m eligible.

Where’s my damn check. I WANT IT NOW!!! RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- AmericanStrega
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 7:01pm
  Now, now. Temper, temper.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:26pm
  Thanks for the help Americastrega
  
  That check should be in the mail any day now. LOL
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:37pm
  OLD: Bingo. You got it ! How can the Far Left Democrats drain more from the pocket of the taxpayer and buy more votes from the dysfunctional ? That is their Game Plan. That is one of their many ways to destroy a successful capitalist society and ” change” it into a society comprised of a bunch of needy , easily controlled zombies ?! Oh, Democrat Big Brother is just thrilled with this needy , dumbed down society . Bulls-eye . You got it.
  
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From Virginia
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:00pm
Tantrums aren’t a mental illness – they are a discipline issue which clever parnets can put a quick end to! Mine did!

The psychiatric field went nuts when they allowed themselves to be terrorized by rampaging gays at their meeting way back when. Since then they have churned out nothing but junk science.

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txbigfoot
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:59pm
They are changing these now. Nail biting is now a compulsive disorder.
They are after everyone to pigeonhole them.

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:58pm
Those that write and approve the DSM lost all credibility when they took out homosexuality. What can possibly be more mentally defective than trying to mate with your own sex?

The American Psychiatric Association has been, like so many other institutions, eaten by the cancer called political correctness.

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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 6:37pm
  I heard it called by someone American Psychiatrist Asphyxiation.
  
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- KissMyAmericanFlag
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:49pm
  Hey Flag, There may be a larger, more sinister agenda at work…
  
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- dnewton
  Posted on December 3, 2012 at 11:05am
  Another Goofy thing they do is invent a disorder that gets cured by a birthday. Oppositional Defiant Disorder can only be diagnosed when the patient is under 18. Psychology has been granted science status way too early in its development. You can not really do good science because the experiments would be unethical: Spank a hundred kids for improper behavior and don’t spank a hundred kids ever and test the results. This would not be a legal experiment and I would not trust Liberals to interpret the data. It is OK, however, to create a generation of narcissist by phoney self-esteem pumping by authority figures. I think if you are constantly throwing a fit and getting your way as a result of it, it is just a coping strategy that works.
  
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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:55pm
That’s not the worst of it. Poopy Goldberg is going after Yosemite Sam And The Tasmanian Devil! Soon, she’ll go after Donald Duck too! …oh, the humanity.

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DougHuffman
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:52pm
Temper tantrums in the DSM? Absolutely, right along with “dissent” and hatred of The Jerk O’bummer.

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paulwbrown
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:49pm
I think liberalism defined as a mental illness is much more defensible!

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- longknifed
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:00pm
  Thomas Jefferson and co were mentally disabled? America was built upon a “mental disorder?”
  
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- paulwbrown
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:59pm
  A different liberalism Longknifed. Name remained the same but totally different philosophy. I have to assume you know the difference between classical liberalism and the liberalism of today, at least I hope you do.
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 7:01pm
  “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
  - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
  
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- SacredHonor1776
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 7:48pm
  Longknifed, you obviously have no idea what ‘classical liberalism’ vs. modern liberalism is do you?
  
  Also in Jeffersonian politics he was for castration for ‘sodomy’ (which covered homosexuality), and passed such a law in Virginia…. So don’t expect his policies to be by today’s standards “socially liberal”…
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 12:12pm
  geniuses,
  I’m trying to make a point. All liberty vocabulary has been converted into meaning the literal opposite. Soon “constitutionalism and bill of rights” will equate to bolshevism because you fools will be the first to trot out the new definitions.
  
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ZAP
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:47pm
Show me a psychiatrist that isn’t half nuts…….

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- Mil Mom
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 3:03am
  @ZAP
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:47pm
  
  Show me a psychiatrist that isn’t half nuts…….
  ***
  And I’ll show you an anti-social person who wasn’t paying attention in class. That’s the only way they could survive the contamination!
  
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dosdelgados
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:46pm
Next looting will be medicalized so it’ll be okay for the bottom dwellers to steal your food supply when the welfare checks stop.

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The-Monk
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:44pm
Remember that there is already a law on the books that people with a mental illness are not allowed to own firearms.

It’s not being enforced at present but it will be soon enough with the UN’s help.

All those Children that were forced to take Prozal and/or Ritalin by school officials we be banned from owning firearms in the future.

We will have an entire Nation of unarmed Citizens if you let them do this to your Children !!!!

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- dosdelgados
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:48pm
  That’s why they hand out the PTSD diagnosis like stickers to returning troops. The more unarmed veterans, the better.
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:53pm
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  you took the words right out of my keyboard Monk… i was thinking in those lines as well
  
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- staythecourse
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:04pm
  Monk. worse than that is a study that is currently being done on vets to identify a “genetic link” to PTSD. Once any sort of bogus link is made to a genetic marker they will claim that no one who has this link will be allowed access to guns. As it is now every child born in the US has DNA taken and info about that DNA goes into a data bank (which now is the fed’s). They are planning to do genome mapping on all kids. PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO ALL STUDIES THAT ARE BEING DONE TODAY TO IDENTIFY GENETIC CAUSES OF PROBLEMS. The new one now is that they claim obesity can be identified in infants –before they become obese. The obese will be the first to have to pay for everything because they will be declared to be “free-riders” if they dont…. after all…. the collective is now paying for their health costs. Pay close attention to these new diagnosis codes!
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:14pm
  Hi Monk. That law is being enforced right now, in beautiful Haina Valley (The Wyoming Valley in NE PA. where I live. It’s probably the corruption capital of America. “judge” ciavarella, Mary Jo Kopechne is buried less than 5 miles from me, the whole scranton family (close enough) not to mention it’s bite-me’s birthplace and every magistrate is a corrupt little vizier too.) I had a nervous breakdown at the beginning of May, was only charged with illegal parking (behind the State Police barracks in Salem Twp.) and trespassing & assault (assault was a LIE). In turn, they ‘confiscated’ my brand-new Ruger with no hope of getting it back or them giving me the money for it, either. I’s probably in the possession of some corrupt lib/dem/dirtball, although they told me it was going to be destroyed. I was put in the W-B General Hospital overnight (another JOKE), spent a little time in the Nesbitt Hospital (better treatment) and put in the Luzerne County hoosegow (yet another joke…you have to KNOW SOMEBODY to get hired there) for less than a week. No probation, no parole, NO NOTHING and I’m still paying inflated useless medical bills off. And they still have my pistola. Come visit the Greater Wilkes-Barre Area. It’s a real treat. (Anybody remember the movie ’2000 Maniacs? They’re all here.)
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:32pm
  There’s people being shot and stabbed and beaten and homes invaded nearby, and I can’t even buy a shotgun to keep in my home. Voter fraud was rampant in Pa. too. Nice place to visit…
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:39pm
  Hi dosdelgados,
  
  You got that right !!!
  
  Can’t have the ex-Vet’s have weapons. : (
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 6:18pm
  Hi JACKTHETOAD,
  
  I heard Shiloh, Wyoming was just taken over by Agenda 21 this last week.
  
  Is that true? What have you heard?
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 7:32pm
  @Polarized America and staythecourse,
  
  Yeah, it’s really bad news not just for those diagnosed but, for the rest of us also.
  
  Divided we fall…..
  
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- dosdelgados
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:37pm
  @Monk- Where did you hear this about Shiloh, WY? Implemented in what manner?
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 9:23pm
  Hi Dosdelgados,
  
  Glenn did a piece on it last week during his radio program. Just checked my references and I was wrong. It was CHEYENNE, not Shiloh. Forgive me for the error.
  
  Here’s a link to a non Glenn Beck source to view the story. Let me know what you think please.
  
  http://wyomingnews.com/articles/2012/11/28/news/19local_11-28-12.txt
  
  Here’s a few more interesting links on the subject;
  
  http://www.wyomingwatchdogs.com/page34.html
  
  http://beforeitsnews.com/story/749/344/Video:_Lesbian_Democrat_Rosa_Koire_Speaks_to_Tea_Party_Groups_Against_Agenda_21.html
  
  http://www.icleiusa.org/about-iclei/members/member-list
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul5oQ3wbstQ
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 3:51am
  Hi, Monk. I haven’t heard anything. It’s quite enough for me to hang on in MY undouched slit of America here. The corruption’s so thick here, you could cut it with a knife. Disgusting, really.
  
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- dosdelgados
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 5:30pm
  Wow, Monk! How many citizens don’t know about Agenda 21 and will be unable to recognize its implementation in their hometowns? I’m glad it was discussed in a town hall, but it’s being billed as a good thing. And of course a lot of people aren’t going to do research.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 5:47pm
  staythecourse
  
  I was scanning the comments & was going to move on. but d_amn if you don;t have the scariest comment.
  
  I once read a comment in Marginal Revolutions.com. The poster who is a regular & a friend of the blogger (If I remember correctly), said he didn’t believe that complex behaviour such same sex attraction was genetic. I agree with his assessment. I can’t believe that temper tantrums need to be medicalized. that is just a head strong individual who has gotten their way up to that point. With a number of rebukes by parents or peers they will stop as it doesn’t gain them anything. There is no need for the APA to turn it into a revenue generator. Their might be marker that makes a person slightly more head strong or egotistical. But it is also a product of social status, upbringing & experience. As so many people have pointed out on this page parents use to take care of this but are generally no longer allowed. A person who throws temper tantrums could only be influenced by hens by 33% to 66%. In reality it is much less than that.
  
  People who are intellectuals told us in the 1980s that the concept of Romantic love was a Western concept & that it was absent form other cultures. a decade later they said they were mistaken. A simple survey of literature would have shown them otherwise. The psychologists are drawn from the same crows as the intellectuals who spouted the nonsense about Romantic Love.
  
  How many more tries before they get it righ
  
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longknifed
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:42pm
If there is no revolution over this, then it will never end. These people should be kept as far away from children as any common pedophile. “psychiatrists” are the weakest people alive. How anybody feels the need to talk to one of these clowns about their issues is unbelievable. Just imagine having somebody far weaker than you, drawing circles on a clipboard, looking at the clock every 5 minutes and yawning, telling you how you should live your life. Our laws are written by these fraudsters. One of the founding fathers of the social sciences…..Karl Marx.

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dosdelgados
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:42pm
More excuses to coddle and not hold people responsible for their actions. What age would constitute a “kid” in this diagnosis? 5? 12? Or 27, when their parents are no longer required to insure them?

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:38pm
For kids, no, its part of growing up. For the members of Congress and the Democrats, yes, it makes it easier to remove Obama from office due to being insane – which he is already.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:21pm
  I do think Barry / Barack Soetoro / Obama carries the scars of his childhood: abandonment by his father ; an bohemian / footloose / non-traditional mom / re-marrying an Indonesian man mom; well meaning ,but Lefty and seemingly clueless maternal grandparents who exposed him to angry black male Marxists. That he attended Occidental College, the Moscow of southern California, and then ended up in radical Bill Ayers’ Chicago where he studied the Saul Alinsky Community Organizing / Agitation tactics and hooked up with a black , female -activist mentor, like Michele Robinson in a law firm is really not surprising. Obama is totally explainable. His re-election in a capitalist society is NOT.
  
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DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:37pm
Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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- Mil Mom
  Posted on December 2, 2012 at 3:13am
  @DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:37pm
  
  Liberalism is a mental disorder.
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  Maybe it’s time for some of us non–prog non-liberals to write some of our own manuals. (This could be fun! Someone start a blog and when we’re done we’ll hold a news conference send out some faxes and send it to the Insurance Industry. It worked for the guys who invented the food pyramid!)
  
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thenewhickschick
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:36pm
Lets keep changing the way we word things until the entire population is taking something for whatever gobbledygook the experts throw at us for every behavior imaginable. Some people would like to anesthetise the masses. What does our president call us? “folks?” “little people?”

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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 6:43pm
  Unterdogs.
  
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DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:36pm
Psychiatrists are doing everything possible to tap into Medicaid dollars. Give something a name, add an entry into the DSM and Uncle Sam rewards you.

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- classic.american.therapist
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 8:00pm
  EXACTLY! Regardless of payer source. The APA is trying to medicalize as many normal psychological & behavioral variants as possible so they can charge insurance for their diagnosis & treatment–Dr. visits, psychotherapy, and pharmaceuticals. That should make up for the loss of clients with legitimate but non-PC psych issues. And you think we have too many parents not taking responsibility for their kids’ behavior now, wait til this all becomes official.
  
  No wonder people seem more susceptible to quack medical treatment. The medical establishment keeps doing stuff like this that strips credibility from the medical scientific community….
  
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:34pm
No it shouldn’t be classified as a mental illness as it is kids not getting their way. Well not just kids as it could be any politician by the way they act sometimes.

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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:33pm
“-A new diagnosis – disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, which critics argued would medicalize kids’ normal temper tantrums, and possibly relieve them of the responsibility of their own actions.”

C’mon now… do we have to give the 1 million Mary Johnson voters and the rest of the Obama enabling fringe crowd from the supposed liberty and freedom ranks a NEW excuse for bad behavior and let them off the hook??

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- longknifed
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:38pm
  Is everything political to you? Is everything always the fault of the “irrelevant” libertarians?
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:05pm
  LONG. I guess you didn’t get the humor in my comment (because it applies to you maybe?).
  
  Anyways, in answer to your question / statement.
  
  Yes, that’s why I come to The Blaze. For mostly political commenting / slapping around “irrelevant” morally repugnant libertarians” and other alledged Libertarians. But mostly… Rothbard and Ron Paul islolationist / cowardly Libertarians. Which one are you?
  
  Oh, and how am I doing btw? Lol.
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:21pm
  You keep boxing me into the GJ crowd even though I didn’t vote for him? I think he had more in common with Obamney than RP. I actually think Ron Paul and Rothbart are the exact opposite because one is for the barest government, while the other is for zero government. Anarcho-capitalism are two completely conflicting ideologies because nothing exists in anarchy other than anarchy. I do like reading their critique of government though. You can’t just say everything somebody does is evil. that would be foolish.
  
  btw, you dodged a bullet because I was thinking about relocating to the Tampa area after I thought I found opportunity, but then reality kinda set in. Way too hot for me anyway. you’re welcome.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:38pm
  LONG. Did you vote for Romney retread?
  
  As far as coming to Tampa… you can come visit me in Clearwater for a short vacation (about 3 minutes)… I have something for you. A souvenir. Lol.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:42pm
  Time2 literally only thinks about us….It’s kinda gay, but at least he cares
  
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- longknifed
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 5:54pm
  awwwww are you threatening me? are you taller than me? doubt it. are you bigger than me? doubt it. are you anywhere near me in age? doubt it. You remind me of a much older Clint Eastwood in that terrible army movie Heartbreak Ridge. see, keyboard tough talk is fun!
  
  btw I stayed at Indian shores and loved the heck out of it because it cracked me up with its Jimmy Buffett theme and not taking anything too seriously. But you know what they say about Florida – traveling is not the same as living there. Plus, I enjoy not getting sunburnt when I get the mail.
  
  I left one of my socks there. I guess that should last you about 3 minutes. lol.
  
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Apple Bite
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:31pm
If they vote yes for tantrums being a mental illness, we’ve lost this society. All children will throw a tantrum every once in awhile. the question is more about, how will the parent handle that temper of theirs. Old school moms were the best. They’ll beat their kids in the store if it came down to it. My mom only had to look at me to make me straighten up. todays moms are…..weak in that area. they want to be the child’s friend, and so, the child likely thinks it’s okay to express themselves when there’s something they don’t like.

Funny, I could have replaced “Child” with “Liberal” and it still would have applied….

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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 6:49pm
  That’s because mentally liberals are stunted children. 5 year old mind (behaviorally) in whatever aged body.
  
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KingDork
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:31pm
this explains liberals so much…

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hi
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:31pm
I knew a few psychiatrists in training in college. They were messed up. So, I don’t really put much worth on anything they have to say. Also,their field is driven by the pharmaceutical companies who want everyone to be on drugs.

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- MDECKER
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:40pm
  Absolutely! Just one more excuse for parents to walk away from their responsibilties. What a wonderful block of future voters too!
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 4:51pm
  Many in these fields of… ahem… “medicine” are as Liberal, Progressive, anti-war, and anti-Military as you can get. The sad part is that they are “working” with our Veterans daily and many can’t seem to separate their ideological leanings from the help they are being asked to give. Sorta’ like this country’s educational system. They think it’s an added benefit when they give you their professional AND personal views…
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 1, 2012 at 6:52pm
  Knew some psychiartrists/psychilogists too. All of them were effed up people that studied their (respective) field to “fix” their own problem.
  
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