Via a gigantic enema, starting in Washington...Hermit wrote:Using a mental disorder as a metaphor for the state (so to speak) of a nation should be left to poets. As an analytical tool for treating individuals it has more than enough problems already. Tellingly, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, as currently used, is into its fifth revision, and it is only a matter of time for DSM 6 to appear. Apart from psychiatry there are also the fields of psychology and even psycho-analysis to pick from, not to mention the many strands within each of them.
Even as a metaphor mental disorder does not work if you suggest that the cure for the US's "classic schizophrenia" is a metaphoric "big dose of Valium". How would you go about administering it?
Is America mentally ill?
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Large percentages of the USA are already addicted to opiates, ..Because of a private "health-care "system that handed out Oxycontin and percosets etc. The body count is already huge .Hermit wrote:Using a mental disorder as a metaphor for the state (so to speak) of a nation should be left to poets. As an analytical tool for treating individuals it has more than enough problems already. Tellingly, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, as currently used, is into its fifth revision, and it is only a matter of time for DSM 6 to appear. Apart from psychiatry there are also the fields of psychology and even psycho-analysis to pick from, not to mention the many strands within each of them.
Even as a metaphor mental disorder does not work if you suggest that the cure for the US's "classic schizophrenia" is a metaphoric "big dose of Valium". How would you go about administering it?
Do you think the country could cope with the wide spread paradoxical side effects of valium * ? I've lost a few friends to Valium and it is widespread in Scotland .
Coke, Heroin , legal highs , amphetamine, drink...... Nothing is as Irrational as a Valium addict when he gets a new bag of pills .
*Benzodiazepines, a class of psychoactive drugs called the "minor" tranquilizers, have varying hypnotic, sedative, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, and muscle relaxing properties, but they may create the exact opposite effects. Susceptible individuals [or idiots that drop them in quantity or with a drink ] may respond to benzodiazepine treatment with an increase in anxiety, aggressiveness, agitation, confusion, disinhibition, loss of impulse control, talkativeness, violent behavior, and even convulsions. Paradoxical adverse effects may even lead to criminal behaviour. Severe behavioral changes resulting from benzodiazepines have been reported including mania, schizophrenia, anger, impulsivity, and hypomania.
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We're not crazy! We're special. Mommy told us so.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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I don't know. My knowledge of Valium is limited. Someone slipped one or two of them into my drink at a party once. So i was told later anyway. The only noticeable result was that I had a bit of a problem maintaining my physical balance long after the effects of the untypically small amount of alcohol I drank that night had worn off. The other encounter was indirect. A friend of mine got addicted to it. A doctor described them to reduce his anxiety and depression, the causes of which turned out to be the relationship between him and his partner. The moment she moved out, his problems disappeared - except for his addiction, which he beat in a matter of a week or two.Feck wrote:Do you think the country could cope with the wide spread paradoxical side effects of valium * ?
Generally speaking, drugs like Valium don't do anything about causes. They just suppress symptoms, so I don't know why one would dose an entire population with that sort of stuff anyway.
As for the US, there is no medication, no cure. Like all empires before it, it will perish. The moment of death can be delayed or brought nearer. It cannot be avoided. As the situation stands right now, my guess is that China will administer the mercy killing, or as the German equivalent slightly more accurately calls it, Notschlachtung, in about three decades. It can be plausibly argued that the process has already begun via the flight of capital (of which manufacturing plants are just one part). If England is anything to go by, it'll take its inhabitants about a century to get used to it, but get used to it they will.
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As long as they don't react to the end of empire with a petulant burst of nuclear fury...
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Rum wrote:Clearly a country can't actually suffer a mental illness in the strict sense of the term. But let's face it the place is going nuts.
I have long been an apologist for the place, often in the face of ridicule. I believe it's constitution is a wonder of the world. But the victory of stupidity over rationality, prejudice over fair mindedness, ignorance over knowledge, self serving decisions over even a modicum of long sightedness makes me think the symptoms are not that removed from the breakdown of mental structure that goes with classic schizophrenia.
It clearly needs a big dose of Valium right now.
I often talk about societies being "sick". Obviously a concept can't be ill, but it's the same thing you are talking about here. Our societies are messed up, and they cause needless illness, suffering and death of its members. And of course, the US seems to be the sickest, and not surprising the rest of our societies get sicker the more they try and be like the US.
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Compared to western Europe and probably Oz and NZ, probably...pErvin wrote:
And of course, the US seems to be the sickest, and not surprising the rest of our societies get sicker the more they try and be like the US.
But compared to Somalia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, China, Russia and many others?
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Every major psychological drug has a host of weird and often frightening side effects. Most of them never effect any more than a tiny fraction of people. I took a fistful of valium yesterday. Then slept for 11 hours...Feck wrote:Large percentages of the USA are already addicted to opiates, ..Because of a private "health-care "system that handed out Oxycontin and percosets etc. The body count is already huge .Hermit wrote:Using a mental disorder as a metaphor for the state (so to speak) of a nation should be left to poets. As an analytical tool for treating individuals it has more than enough problems already. Tellingly, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, as currently used, is into its fifth revision, and it is only a matter of time for DSM 6 to appear. Apart from psychiatry there are also the fields of psychology and even psycho-analysis to pick from, not to mention the many strands within each of them.
Even as a metaphor mental disorder does not work if you suggest that the cure for the US's "classic schizophrenia" is a metaphoric "big dose of Valium". How would you go about administering it?
Do you think the country could cope with the wide spread paradoxical side effects of valium * ? I've lost a few friends to Valium and it is widespread in Scotland .
Coke, Heroin , legal highs , amphetamine, drink...... Nothing is as Irrational as a Valium addict when he gets a new bag of pills .
*Benzodiazepines, a class of psychoactive drugs called the "minor" tranquilizers, have varying hypnotic, sedative, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, and muscle relaxing properties, but they may create the exact opposite effects. Susceptible individuals [or idiots that drop them in quantity or with a drink ] may respond to benzodiazepine treatment with an increase in anxiety, aggressiveness, agitation, confusion, disinhibition, loss of impulse control, talkativeness, violent behavior, and even convulsions. Paradoxical adverse effects may even lead to criminal behaviour. Severe behavioral changes resulting from benzodiazepines have been reported including mania, schizophrenia, anger, impulsivity, and hypomania.
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If you exclude the properly civilized countries the Usa is probably the best of the rest ...
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When I was growing up I looked up to America. Moonshots, Big Blue Marble, Banana Splits and Dukes of Hazard...they had it all. A true role model of progressive living....via the goggle-box. They put on a good show. But a people are only as good as their times allow I guess and times change.
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And if you believe the papers, the other half is addicted to pain medication.tattuchu wrote:...
But, yes, to answer your question. About half of the U.S. are mentally unwell.
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And the third half believe in Scientology!
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Yeah but we got gunz. That makes up for all the rest.
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If you have a few spare...?pErvin wrote:
Every major psychological drug has a host of weird and often frightening side effects. Most of them never effect any more than a tiny fraction of people. I took a fistful of valium yesterday. Then slept for 11 hours...
My favourite drug. Just as well I don't have access or Id be a frenzied addict!
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