Since the American Psychiatric Association is about to release their

updated version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,

I thought I would make a couple videos explaining how this book works and how

mental disorders are created.

Wait? How mental disorders are created?

That sounds a little funny!

Although treatments in psychiatry are biologically and medically based

assessment and diagnosis of mental disorders

is not.

This means that there are no biological markers of mental illness.

There are no physiological tests or any physical test whatsoever

used to diagnose any one of the three hundred mental disorders

listed in this book

and there will be even more mental disorders in the upcoming edition of

this book.

This is because there is actually no known pathology or physiological basis

for any of these "so-called" mental illnesses.

The basic assumption of psychiatry is that you can control or manage people's

behaviors

biologically using physical interventions such as medications

electric shock

and brain operations.

This is why psychiatrists even call it they do "Behavioral Management"

But this is a medical practice that is achieving these changes using

physical interventions.

So the drugs and medications alter your body chemically, and electric shock

or brain operations

alter your body

physically.

But psychiatry is really only half

of a medical practice.

Because the diagnosis of these mental disorders

is not medically based at all.

Without the presence of physical diagnostic markers such as, an infection,

or a genetic abnormality,

abnormal hormone levels or clearly deformed organ structures,

Psychiatry has had to borrow a diagnostic method

from a completely different school of psychology.

And that is the school of "Behavioral Psychology".

And Behavioral Psychology of course studies behaviors.

So the American Psychiatric Association will take a set of related behaviors,

clumping them together and call it a disorder,

Then the psychiatrist attempts to change or "manage" those behaviors

through physically changing your body.

So we have one half of psychiatry, the diagnosis, which is completely

psychological.

These disorders are diagnosed strictly through clinical interview

and then the other half a psychiatry,

which is medical,

the physical interventions such as medications or electric shock therapy.

I'm going to go ahead and give you an example. I think make all of this

abundantly clear.

So let's look at Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

and how it's diagnosed.

Maybe with some kind of physical test or brain scan?

No! I actually have the DSM right here and I'm gonna go ahead and read

the diagnostic criteria

of this mental disorder

Inattention,

one

Often fails to pay close attention to details and makes careless mistakes in

schoolwork work or other activities.

2. Often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities.

3. Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly.

4. Often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish school

work chores or duties in the workplace

not to to oppositional behavior or failure to understand directions.

5. Often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities

6. often avoids dislikes or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require

sustained mental effort such as schoolwork or homework

7. Often loses things necessary for tasks or activities

e.g. toys,

school assignments,

pencils,

books or tools.

8. Is often easily distracted by extraneous stimuli.

and 9. Is often forgetful in daily activities.

Now, I don't know about you guys but that sounds like me some of the time!

And you only have to present

6 of these 9 criteria in order to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit.

Disorder.

And, I just want to point out that there is no physical test listed. There's no

brains scan. There's no blood test. This is simply a list of behaviors and merely

presenting these behaviors

can land you with a diagnosis of this "mental illness".

There are nine more criteria

for the Hyperactivity Impulsivity diagnosis.

And those are,

1) Often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat.

2) Often leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which remain seated

is expected.

3. Often runs about or climbs excessively in situations

in which it is inappropriate

(in adolescents or adults, this may be limited to subjective feelings of

restlessness.

4. Often has difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly

5. Is often "on the go" or

often acts as if "driven by a motor"

6. Often talks excessively

7. Often blurts out answers before questions have been completed.

8. Often has difficulty awaiting turn

And 9 Often interrupts or intrudes on others e.g.

butts in the conversations or games.

Yea! I don't know any kids they act like that!

I mean, climbing on something

when it's inappropriate to be climbing?

Now these are the actual diagnostic criteria for ADHD.

And I just have to point out one more time

there is no brain scan.

There's no testing for viruses, bacteria or parasites.

There's no infection.

There's no abnormal

organ size There's no abnormal hormone levels and there's not even a toxicology

test done

to see if there may be some presence of toxins

causing those behaviors.

So really what we have here in terms of diagnostic criteria

is a list of behaviors which adults find objectionable,

annoying,

disruptive or just plain rude!

Things that your grandma would have called bad manners.

Like not doing your homework, screwing off instead of doing chores,

talking out of turn or fidgeting nervously in your chair.

But these are also behaviors that

really don't bother little johnny very much.

He's a kid.

and if you have lots of energies molested top-ten list of play

certainly rather sit in front of the xbox then do his homework

but these behaviors are bothersome to you the teacher

and a little johnny's parents and maybe even his classmates

so as little johnny is disruptive in class we can get into some drugs to

manage his behavior

and now he's so something out on it overdose of cycle stimulants

that he finally sits down shuts up and starts to behave

but it brings up an interesting question

who is this treatment really helping

are we giving johnnie these drugs for his own benefit

or just to keep him from disrupting the teacher and his class

and you'll see this occur in institutional settings as well

like nursing homes

where if one of the residence is getting out of hand

antipsychotics can be administered as a chemical restraint

i recall seeing a story not too long ago of a man who

kept getting up out of his bullshit

and once this became too annoying for this fast

they actually administered anti-psychotic ps

a

major tranquilizers

in order to keep him in his chair

hopefully

going over the diagnostic criteria for each d made it very clear to you that

eighty eight's diva is diagnosed

based strictly on behaviors and contact

not some biological medical condition this is just about the way that people

are behaving

and if it's not clear enough then let's move on to our next example

mental disorder number three hundred and fourteen point nine

conduct disorder

which is characterized by being aggressive towards people are animals

destruction of property lying stealing

and other serious blow violations like sneaking out of the house

running away from home

or skipping school

so if you brian and so the magnifying glass gideon fights at school scraping

fifty d in anatomy

for steel energy drinks from the seven-eleven

then you have a mental disorder called conduct disorder

and i'm not making this stuff up

these really are the criteria for being diagnosed with this mental helmets

now certainly that is some disorderly conduct

but i just have to reemphasize that we're talking about behavior

in making an assumption about somebody's brain

based solely on for their conduct and behavior

is a little asap words

and i'm sure that some of you can remember when you look back on your

childhood times that you skipped school snuck out of the house lives shoplifted

or shape the whiskers off the cat

and most of us would have called this being naked or getting in trouble

and the biological treatment that most of us thought was a spanking

and this brings up an interesting point

when we punish a child or or arrest an adult

we do so under the pretext that they are responsible for their actions

and so we're teaching that there is some personal responsibility associated with

the things we do

and that some of our behaviors will have certain consequences

but the philosophy of psychiatry is diametrically opposed to this idea of

personal responsibility

once johnnie is diagnosed and labeled

he's no longer responsible for his behavior

his behavior resolved into his mental illness

is somehow because johnnie has a disease even though he has no infection

or that his brain is defective

even though there are no detectable abnormalities

this somehow

not able to control his behavior

and the only way to actually control is behavior

this with psychotropic drugs

parents who have gone down this route where their child receives a diagnosis

often encountered this problem

because children are smart and kind of sneaky about getting out of trouble

or doing nadi things in in finding ways to not get in trouble for them

you might have a situation where the votes johnnie stands up in class

indus

circuit

and tells the teacher and it wasn't me

it was my turn

syndrome

so you have a situation where the mental ellis is being blamed for the behavior

or maybe a little johnny causes cancer that trying to do his homework buddies

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was prevented him from finishing

so psychiatry really is just behavioral management

it's social conformity in the form of the pedal

so you can take square pegs and put them in the round holes

by rounding off it ads is using psychotropic drugs

but it really is the lack of a any biological pathology it will be the

ultimate downfall of psychiatry

because you can't take a diagnostic methods and that is sheerly

psychological and based on the figure

and couple it with a treatment method which is physical

and expect to have it any kind of good results

in this video we talked about you need to do your conduct disorder

and in a future video i'm going to come down the top ten most ridiculous

mental disorders

prettier tell conflicted about something

have you ever felt pouring between two different things

the teacher video we're going to talk about the same college he had inner

conflict

and how you can overcome that inner turmoil

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