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A Message To The Universe
(Is there anybody out there?!!)
Will you receive this message??
The empire of anxiety
Paranoid much?
By Stephen Marche Esquire.com
September 2013. p.p. 122-124
This is a follow-up to my blog
The President, Politicians, Mass Media and Guns
Feb. 11, 2013
I then urged core focus be on Americans' mass paranoia, not solely on guns...
The foremost "new" in Marche essay lies in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder DSM-5.
DSM 5, the encyclopedia of psychiatric disorders. The most vexing questions it's author faced:
How do we define paranoia in an era when everyone has a reason to be paranoid.
Id p: 123
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"In the latest edition of controversial DSM 5 (released this past spring), the bible for shrinks,
it's author changed the definition of social-anxiety disorder in a small but crucial way.
Phobias used to require is that their suffers know their anxiety to be excessive or unreasonable.
That condition has been removed: instead, the anxiety must be out of proportion to the actual danger of threat
in the situation, after taking cultural contextual factors into account.
American Psychiatry has accepted this old piece of wisdom: You can be paranoid and right at the same"
Id p.124
"Dr" Bob Dylan, on cover of Rolling Stone.com September 12, 2013; told us in circa 1960s:
Because you are paranoid, doesn't mean no one is after you!
Knowing, we are at this point: stiff - still what do about all this massive gun violence.
By: Leon Irby
Dated 10, 2013
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Replies (2)
Thanks for your letter! I finished the transcription for your post. It was quite an interesting read.
God Bless
Maita