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The catch is, "Their dietary restrictions commonly cause sufferers to feel proud of their "virtuous" behaviour even if it means that eating becomes so stressful their personal relationships can come under pressure and they become socially isolated."
In their efforts to eat "healthy," these folks go off the deep end. In their search for only foods that meet their standards, they actually end up eating a less healthy diet.
Most people can eat a "healthy" diet and still go to a friend's house to eat dinner and not bring their own food because nothing the host serves is ever on the approved list.
Psychiatry is half pseudoscience, but their penchant for labeling serious fans of different activities as "addicts" or suffers of "disorders" is particularly annoying.
Psychiatry is half pseudoscience, but their penchant for labeling serious fans of different activities as "addicts" or suffers of "disorders" is particularly annoying.
Could you perhaps specify other activities you mean?
It is possible to be a "serious fan" of an activity, but if it takes over your whole life and prevents you from being able to hold a job or interact with friends and family, then to call it an addiction or disorder is appropriate. Keep in mind that for someone to receive such a diagnosis, the person has to end up in the shrink's office. That implies that the person with the disorder (or a family member) has identified a problem with the activity. What about the guy who's brought in by his wife because all his spare time is spent playing online computer games --- no time with wife or kids or friends?
Now, how many hours have I spent on CD lately ......
Any form of OCD is serious. The OP is laughing at something that can be life-altering to people w/the problem. Have you never watched those shows on Discovery about hoarding? That's another form it can tkae.
As Dr. Carlat explains, the ideal combination is therapy plus medication, if indicated. The thing is, the medications do work for properly selected patients. The problem is that psychiatry is one of the most poorly remunerated medical specialties. Insurance companies frequently carve out psychiatry benefits, charge higher copays and deductibles, and insist that the oldest, cheapest drugs be tried first, even if newer meds are more likely to work better with fewer side effects. Since only the shrink can prescribe the medication, many psychiatrists end up seeing the patient for medication, while a psychologist or licensed professional counselor does the talk therapy. In my community, there are too few psychiatrists. I know one who sees twice as many patients as the average shrink, regularly keeps patients waiting for hours, works through lunch, and the patients accept the waiting because he's the best at what he does in this part of the state. He's highly skilled at prescribing the medications, and he has an exceptional grasp of the way the meds work and how they interact with other things the patient is taking.
Note that risk of suicide is very high both in depression and schizophrenia. Both depression and schizophrenia cause high rates of disability and hospitalization. Before the medications came along, many people with severe mental disorders spent their lives in institutions.
Sure, there are patients who milk the system for monetary gain from disability and workman's comp programs, but they are in the minority.
Any form of OCD is serious. The OP is laughing at something that can be life-altering to people w/the problem. Have you never watched those shows on Discovery about hoarding? That's another form it can tkae.
This sounds like "flaming" to me.
My point is OCD is OCD. Treat the original cause of OCD (a simple mineral imbalance) and STOP making up new diseases.
Where did I write that I was laughing at OCD ?????
It's VERY obvious that my opinion is that this NEW so called recognition of this NEW disease is "disgustingly laughable"
DON"T try and twist my words and create a firestorm !
Wouldn't the extreme simply fall under the diagnosis of obsessive/compulsive disorder?
Yeah, but the people who write the diagnosis codes try to make them specific.
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