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From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
> What drives me nuts (figuratively speaking) is the medicalization of all
> sorts of adverse mental states that have a strong political or existential
> component. After more than a generation of capitalist triumphalism capped
> by the glorious rebirth of outright imperialism, any decent person would
> *have* to be in a foul mood most of the time. If that person is
> exceptionally sensitive and has a certain biochemical predisposition, he/she
> could well devolve to that near-paralytic state known as clinical
> depression. But I would argue that the cause of that depressed state is
> capitalistic depredations, not idiopathic serotonin imbalances.
>
> Carl
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And of course there are no entries for authoritarian personality disorder or work/career induced psychoses enumerated in the DSM.......
Ian