* BEFORE YOU READ THIS POST, REALIZE THAT THE APA HAS THE FINAL SAY ON ALL POLICIES IN THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ON ISSUES REGARDING MENTAL ILLNESS. THE AMA IN TURN HAS THE FINAL SAY ON ALL PUBLIC POLICIES REGARDING WHAT IS DONE TO ACCOMODATE THINGS SUCH AS SO-CALLED "TRANSGENDERS" IN PUBLIC PLACES PREVIOUSLY RESERVED FOR WOMEN (OR MEN) ONLY...
THEREFORE, THE APA HAS MORE POWER THAN THE US CONGRESS. AND THIS IS WHY THE CULT OF LGBT SEIZED THE INSTITUTION BACK IN THE 1970S & 80S. THEY KNEW FULL WELL WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND HOW MUCH POWER THE APA HAD/HAS...
I don't consider it mental illness because the APA doesn't.
The APA doesn't consider sex-addiction a mental issue either (got that you folks who are wrecking your lives with a sex addiction? It's all in your head). So the APA using their rag below are actually GASLIGHTING an entire segment of the mentally ill. The APA should not only be censured by the US Congress, they should be immediately dismantled and future organizations to oversee literally all facets of mental illness should be closely monitored for impartiality in empirical studies henceforth.
Sex Addiction: Rejected Yet Again by APA
Over the past 18 months, a debate has raged, but the victors appear to have emerged from the smoke.
The American Psychiatric Association is updating their “Bible” of diagnostic categories of mental
health. Yet again,
the sex addiction industry has been clamoring for creation of a disorder to support their work. And yet again,
the APA has turned them down flat.
This is not a new debate. My book,
The Myth of Sex Addiction, details the history of this controversy, from the days of the first DSM, when nymphomania was included, through the last several revisions, as sex
addiction has been rejected, again and again. Every time the book is revised, the sex addiction industry tries and tries to get their pet concept termed a mental disorder.
Legitimacy would allow them to bill insurance companies, would allow the
pharmaceutical companies to market libido-suppressing drugs as treatment for sex addiction, and would give
some appearance of credibility to those folks who get in trouble for sexual behaviors, and either cry “I’m a sex addict,” or get labeled as one by the media
You know...because we all know sex addiction isn't real and that porn addiction, compulsive anonymous sex hookups (Grindr), divorces, family breakups, STDs that kill, unwanted pregnancies and so on from sex addictions are all just figments of society's collective imagination.
They're calling those who would seek to help sex addicts "an industry" while their chop the dick off to pretend a dude is gal sanctioned "medicine" isn't an industry???? They're doing those prescriptions and surgeries for free are they? Guess what kind of drugs they prescribe to kids to commit child abuse softening their minds and forever altering their bodies in "transgender kids" BS? Hormones that soften the normal libido of their actual gender. How about that for a double-standard? It seems the APA is addicted to sex so that it functions as the ultimate denial machine, keeping treatment for themselves and all they have ultimate control over (all of us) from seeing sexual extremes as unhealthy. Ya think?
Here's another "revision" of psychology they tried not too long ago:
Dallam - Science or Propaganda? An Examination of Rind, Tromovitch & Bauserman 1998
An article, "A Meta-analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples," published in the July 1998 edition of the Psychological Bulletin resulted in an unprecedented amount of media attention and became the first scientific article to be formally denounced by the United States House of Representatives.
concluded that mental health researchers have greatly overstated CSA's harmful potential. They recommended that a willing encounter with positive reactions no longer be considered to be sexual abuse; instead, it would simply be labeled adult-child sex . The study's conclusions and recommendations spawned a debate in both the popular and scholarly press. A number of commentators suggested that the study is pedophile propaganda masquerading as science. Others claimed that the authors are victims of a moralistic witch-hunt and that scientific freedom is being threatened. After a careful examination of the evidence, it is concluded that Rind et al. can best be described as an advocacy article that inappropriately uses science in an attempt to legitimize its findings.
And speaking of inappropriately using science in an attempt to legitimize findings.... I'll refer you once again to this OP:
Federal Gay-Activist Judges Aren't to Blame: They Rely on "Science"..
Here's the problem & mechanics of how the APA is coming to what they advertise are "emperical conclusions" while they are nothing but voodoo backed by the pressure of a group, a preference to "words over numbers" and if you fail to fall in line with the APA/LGBT guard? Like Scientology...you will be audited... You can't make this shit up. Mook's Mafia has been busy for a long, long time...
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You know what Consensual Qualitative Research stands for? Disregarding
Quantitative Analysis & Instead, Conforming To Group-Think.... Or Else.... Forgive me if I don't worship at the APA altar like you do Joe. If you go back and read the heading to this post, you realize that the APA is a cult that is dictating policy to ALL US Citizens from a sequestered compound. It's time to shine the light on them and dismantle the organization, or fall to your knees, whichever your preference.