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When Zacharia Goodman recently sought out the help of a therapist, it was no mystery as to what was ailing him. The 27-year-old copy editor was so consumed by his belief that President George W. Bush stole the 2004 election that he was having trouble sleeping, completing rudimentary tasks at work, and carrying on conversations about topics not related to politics.

The therapist he consulted wrote Goodman a prescription for the social anxiety drug Paxil and encouraged him to spend less time reading left-wing Web logs and listening to Air America.

This particular story has a happy ending; Goodman admits that he's already far less irritating to be around than he was just a few weeks ago. But countless paranoids just like him may be going untreated, say mental health professionals. The reason: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM presently excludes political paranoia from its 933 pages of symptoms, diagnoses and treatment recommendations.

2006-08-01 20:06:13 · 5 answers · asked by Heroic Liberal 1 in Politics & Government Politics

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hahaha... I don't think people that have trouble writing a simple sentence and then copying and pasting a "joke" should be talking about others having a "mental disorder"...

I bet you actually believe that story that you got in an e-mail too... don't you? hahahaa... there is no end to conservative gullibility...

2006-08-01 20:56:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

that's no longer a psychological disease, that's a controversy of bewilderment it particularly is the effect of a number of obfuscation by using activists who attempt to conceal at the back of labels to avert revealing their genuine intentions. working example, you have a badly puzzled definition of your perspectives. right it is why. The words Left and correct have a distinctive definition in Europe than in united states of america. the yank style is this: think of a protracted flat line. interior the middle, place a dot and label it "average". Now shifting to the Left you will discover Liberal/ingenious, then Socialist and ultimately on the extreme Left you will discover Totalitarianism or finished government administration. beginning back interior the middle returned and shifting suitable you come across Conservative, then Libertarian and ultimately on the extreme suitable you come across Anarchy or no government in any respect. so which you're incorrect to contemplate your self a Libertarian/Liberal. that's impossible. What you're describing is a lot greater like center-suitable or what's usually suggested as "average". despite if average and Centrist can span a close by from Liberal to Conservative or as we Conservatives in many cases examine with it, as neither right here nor there. the reason at the back of our disdain for this style of place is that it is illogical and unworkable. working example, your choose to have "the two government-funded hospitals that manage human beings for free of cost, and that i additionally think of there would desire to be inner maximum hospitals." that's no longer conceivable. inner maximum hospitals can not compete with government funded hospitals because of fact government funded hospitals do no longer care approximately expenditures and don't would desire to make a earnings. in the event that they choose funds they only circulate to the wide-unfold public trough and take it. There particularly isn't "government funded" something. the indoors maximum sector pays for it by using taxes. Your style would have inner maximum enterprise competing with publicly funded enterprise with the indoors maximum enterprise investment the two. does not artwork. Drives expenditures up, provider down. *

2016-12-10 19:53:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

QUOTE from Liberal hero "Is the movement to Classify 'Liberalism' as Mental Disorder Gains Steam?"

My question; What language do they speak in your native country and are you here legally?

2006-08-01 20:18:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Only a ultra-conservative with a corn cob up his behind would come up with such a stupid idea, lol.

2006-08-01 20:17:35 · answer #4 · answered by The Nana of Nana's 7 · 0 0

How sad,,,,,,,,,,,, but at the same time very funny. Hmmmmmm..............

2006-08-01 20:14:03 · answer #5 · answered by Huevos Rancheros 6 · 0 0

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