Comments on: Internet/Email/Text messaging addiction soon to be official http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/18/internetemailtext-messaging-addiction-soon-to-be-official.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:52:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Amy G http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/18/internetemailtext-messaging-addiction-soon-to-be-official.html/comment-page-1/#comment-178367 Amy G Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:05:52 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/18/internetemailtext-messaging-addiction-soon-to-be-official.html#comment-178367 Check out this petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/textmess/petition.html Texting is not a Mental “disorder”! Take Your Mental Disorders and Your Psych Drugs and Your UnScientific Diagnostic & Statistical Manual and Shove Them! Petition to The American Psychiatric Association and Psych Drug Manufacturers. Check out this petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/textmess/petition.html

Texting is not a Mental “disorder”!

Take Your Mental Disorders and Your Psych Drugs and Your UnScientific Diagnostic & Statistical Manual and Shove Them! Petition to The American Psychiatric Association and Psych Drug Manufacturers.

]]> By: Ken http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/18/internetemailtext-messaging-addiction-soon-to-be-official.html/comment-page-1/#comment-176157 Ken Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:35:58 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/18/internetemailtext-messaging-addiction-soon-to-be-official.html#comment-176157 Compartmentalization of behavior into classified categories seems to parallel Communist China's treatment of the internet as a controllable affliction that needs treatment. One could envision China as being on the forefront of this effort and ahead of their American counterparts in the Psychiatric profession. I am glad to see Dr. Jerald Block making an effort to have the American Psychiatric Profession catch up in this area where their Chinese counterparts hold the edge in recognition of this affliction. I submit that the compulsive attempt to classify human behavior into various behavioral disorders itself needs to be included into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Not only can American Psychiatry treat its patients problems, it can also create the problems needed to be treated. This works well in China, as evidenced by the exclusion of upsetting articles related to dissent in Tibet. Shock treatment for internet addiction seems to work well in Asian communist countries.Maybe the USA can get a handle on this horrible affliction too. Compartmentalization of behavior into classified categories seems to parallel Communist China’s treatment of the internet as a controllable affliction that needs treatment. One could envision China as being on the forefront of this effort and ahead of their American counterparts in the Psychiatric profession. I am glad to see Dr. Jerald Block making an effort to have the American Psychiatric Profession catch up in this area where their Chinese counterparts hold the edge in recognition of this affliction.
I submit that the compulsive attempt to classify human behavior into various behavioral disorders itself needs to be included into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Not only can American Psychiatry treat its patients problems, it can also create the problems needed to be treated. This works well in China, as evidenced by the exclusion of upsetting articles related to dissent in Tibet. Shock treatment for internet addiction seems to work well in Asian communist countries.Maybe the USA can get a handle on this horrible affliction too.

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