Senator Rand Paul believes mental health is a hoax; legislation pending

[applegrove]

Senator Rand Paul believes mental health is a hoax; legislation pending

http://kevinjayheldman.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/senator-rand-paul-believes-mental-health-is-a-hoax-legislation-pending-3/

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Paul seems to view psychiatrists and the mental health field in the same way he views big, over-reaching government and the power of a threatening government administration – – they’ll take away your freedom and liberty, they’ll try to control you, they must not have any power over you, they can’t be trusted, they’re innately ineffective and dangerous.

He in fact questions the very legitimacy and authority of psychiatrists (“it is all too easy for a psychiatrist to label a person’s disagreement with the psychiatrist’s political beliefs a mental disorder”).

Paul’s legislation, chock full of ellipses between quotes and citations dating from 1998 and 1999 introduces legislation that demands that “No federal funds may be used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socio-emotional screening program.”

He goes further: Rand calls into question the actual legitimacy of mental health (“serious conflicts in the medical literature regarding the definitions of mental health and mental illness…what it means to be mentally healthy is subject to many different interpretations that are rooted in value judgments that may vary across cultures). He continues, “further research is necessary to firmly establish ADHD as a brain disorder. This is not unique to ADHD, but applies as well to most psychiatric disorders, including disabling diseases such as schizophrenia.”


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[Cha]

1. Oh dear, that's irony for you.

thanks applegrove

[applegrove]

2. Psychiatry isn't perfect but a tool. But a very important tool. You know who

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else is against psychiatry? Cults like Scientology. You know why? Because cults and their sociopathic leaders require fucked up young adults they can 'save' and thus control. People they can give a narrative to that the followers can then march to. Where are they going to get their flock if people are as healthy and actualized as they can be? How's a sociopath supposed to get adulation and loyalty to the ends of the world without the lost? How is Rand Paul going to get followers?

[BlueStreak]

3. This from a doctor who himeslf is not board certified

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/14/rand-paul-not-board-certi_n_611018.html

[okaawhatever]

4. Are you griggin' kidding me? At least all these full on psychos are starting to let people know what

they really think. They kind of kept their plans and beliefs quite during election time. Most don't see them for the danger they are. Keep it up, the more you talk the shorter your career in politics becomes.

[Autumn]

5. That boy just ain't right in the head

his Daddy probably dropped him one too many times.

[longship]

6. Uh-Oh! Ayn Rand Paul has been talking to Tom Cruise again.

Maybe he can convince Tom to take up Aqua Buddha and they can start their own religion. Call it Crank-O-Woo.

They should keep the Xenu part simply because powerful alien overlords always make the best science fiction. Throw in a few dinosaurs to get the eight year olds and you've got it made.

[Deep13]

7. I suggest he tries it before he knocks it. nt

[liberal N proud]

8. Denial is one of the first steps to seekig help.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

9. Psychiatry doesn't offer anything a good head stomping won't also cure

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/25/rand-paul-supporter-stomps-head_n_773857.html

[niyad]

10. he's channeling tom cruise again

[dlwickham]

11. I think the good senator should look up the definition of paranoia

seems as if he's suffering a bit of it

[Initech]

12. Rand Pauls' level of rampant stupidity should be classified by the DSM.

[chknltl]

13. Defeat of deduct went over defense before detail.

See what happens when you read Ayn Rand crap after smoking belly button lint? Senator Paul is a national embarassment, living proof that an alarmingly sizeable chunk of our electorate is challenged by high school level gozinta!

[Archae]

14. Ultimate woo.

A deluded quack who is a political whore to the far-right says there is no such thing as mental illness.

[sakabatou]

15. Lemme get my clue-by-four

[pacalo]

16. Rand Paul is a very dangerous man to society.

When his followers stop taking their medication based on his ignorant rhetoric, I wish Paul would be forced to be their caregiver.

[uriel1972]

17. That's the thing...

People like Rand never have to see, let alone clean up the mess they leave behind. It makes for very poor policy.

[pacalo]

18. They don't have to live with it!

It's very apparent that he has no idea what a mentally-disturbed episode is like. There should be a law that protects society from people like Rand Paul.