"In May of this year the APA (American Psychiatric Association) will release its fifth edition of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)... These manuals are essentially the yardstick for
what is and what is not 'mental illness' in America.
Now, while the APA is the premier psychiatric association in America... in recent years it has been accused of being more
agenda-driven than representing hard, scientific and medical assessments of mental disorders....
"In the January 17, 2013 edition of
Psychology Today, Toni Bernhard, a former law professor at University of California at Davis, penned
Your Physical Illness May Now Be Labeled a Mental Disorder, which discusses the APA’s reclassification of a myriad of physical ailments as psychological disorders. It is a chilling insight into how this insidious process could work.
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...in the former Soviet Union and other totalitarian states, one of the pretexts often used to do away with political dissidents and those otherwise deemed to be threats to national security was to
label them as mentally ill and ship them off to an asylum. Sometimes they returned; often they did not, but they were
out of the way for as long as was necessary in the capricious mind of the regime, and the citizenry was duly warned that the same could happen to them should they likewise pose such a
'threat.'
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In the case of those who pose the most dire threat to Obama’s designs – Christians – these will certainly be targeted. After all, who more demonstrably epitomizes mental instability in the eyes of the Marxist atheist than those who commune with and rely upon that which is unseen?
To the Marxist, God is no more real than Elwood’s
'Harvey,' and even more antiquated than the Constitution."
