Americans
critical of government could have their Second Amendment rights
restricted if psychologists diagnose them with “Oppositional Defiant
Disorder” or a similar diagnosis as a result of Obama’s new gun control
executive action.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders: Fifth Edition (DSM-5), which the American Psychiatric
Association uses for psychiatric diagnosis, defines “oppositional
defiant disorder” as a “recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant,
disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures” which
typically begins at a young age but can survive into adulthood.
“[Adults with Oppositional Defiant Disorder] feel misunderstood and disliked, hemmed in and pushed around,” according to Russell Barkley, Ph.D.. “Some feel like mavericks or rebels.”
In other words, an Obama-supporting
psychologist could potentially diagnose conservatives and libertarians
with “Oppositional Defiant Disorder” due to their criticism of
authority, particularly the federal government, and then report them to
the FBI as too “mentally unfit” to purchase a gun.
But even scarier, the newest version of
the DSM-5 is so broad that almost every form of human behavior could be
considered some type of mental illness.
In fact, over the past 50 years, the number of mental illnesses defined by sequential editions of the DSM have grown from 130 to over 350.
The rise in children diagnosed with
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ADD), for example, is
mainly due to the newest DSM editions reclassifying certain, normal
behaviors as “symptoms.”
“If 7-year-old Mozart tried composing his concertos today, he might be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and medicated into barren normality,” George F. Will with the Washington Post lamented.
And looking back at the Soviet Union, the
communist regime routinely diagnosed those critical of the government
as “mentally ill.”
“People who didn’t accept the beliefs of the Communist Party developed a ‘new type’ of schizophrenia,” the popular blog site The Mind Unleasedpointed out. “They suffered from the ‘delusion’ of believing communism was wrong.”
“They were isolated, forcefully medicated, and put through repressive ‘therapy’ to bring them back to sanity.”
And Obama’s latest gun control executive order is heading in the same direction.
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