Guest guest Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 When will medical orphans show some pride and get up off of their knees? Who is more pathetic, the racist, or the minority who accepts a second class status without resistance? Even when the suffering becomes so profound and protracted that it becomes irrational to go on living: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1092865/Devoted-mother- arrested-mercy-killing-yuppie-flu-daughter-died-massive-morphine- overdose.html the suicide will end up being used as " evidence " of a psychiatric problem. PWCs go on like sheep, hoping that if they are just nice enough, submissive enough, then they will be thrown some crumbs. It is the role of psychology to legitimize denigration; to turn bigotry into a profession. There are many examples: Drapetomania, the refrigerator mother, the employment of Munchausen by proxy as a way to keep mothers in line, etc. I was minding my own business, investigating ulcerative colitis, but you just can't escape their bigoted pronouncements: " In the majority of the patients studied psychological abnormalities and disorders far beyond the range of individual differences in the average population were found to antedate the initial onset of the colitis. In relation to other investigations control groups of patients have been examined by methods which are identical with those used in the present research. In the ulcerative colitis patients the degree of difference from average individuals was so gross as to make a special control group unnecessary. A dated clinical history and a dated life history, taken independently and verified from relatives, showed that disturbing events in the patient's life had preceded the onset, return, and increase of symptoms more often than can be due to chance. " quoted from a paper published in the 1938: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2211121 Ah, psychiatric anomalies supposedly predating disease onset. Sound familiar?: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17088506 Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory condition, with recently, and clearly demonstrated genetic risk factors. Only bigots could assert a psychiatric cause for bleeding out your butt. However, " Ulcerative colitis personality " seems, now, to have gone out of vogue. So it is not that PWCs employ fashionable diagnoses….: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9456062 ….but that the defamation of patients with medically unexplained diseases by psychologists reflects the fad of the times. Yet PWCs go on saying, " Thank you, sir, may I have another? " , whilst tolerating the " Uncle Toms " among us who promote " stress " as causal, and " brain work " as therapeutic. Who is more pathetic? Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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