Diagnoses
Here are three new diagnoses were mentioning.
First, the psychiatric industry has decided to rewrite their dictionary. Actually, it’s not quite as exciting as it sounds – that’s a joke – but what they’re doing, for instance, is dumping the term "mental retardation" and referring to the same symptoms as "intellectual disability." That clears up a lot, doesn’t it? They also have decided that Asperger’s syndrome is out. They’re gonna call it a mild version of autism. The problem the shrinks were having was that there was a lot of over-diagnosing and consequently over-prescribing of drugs. No one in their right minds, ho ho, expects that the etymological redo is going to improve anything.
Second diagnosis, researchers across The Big Pond have determined that being bored means you’re likely to die sooner. Their work had more holes in it than Swiss cheese but the conclusion makes some sense. I mean, if you declare yourself bored to death, you’re very likely to see your life as meaningless, and subconsciously your body might start shutting down. This codicil, the people studied were London civil servants between ages 35 and 55. You can imagine that these folks had been on the job for decades and would naturally be stunningly somnolent, as a start. No doubt many of those who dealt with them also felt they had no heart.
And third, not a diagnosis really, perhaps, but also not a verdict, since there were never any charges. The Reuters cameraman in Iraq who was held by the U.S. military for almost 18 months has been released. There had been loose accusations of his associating with the wrong people, but nothing substantive. The highest Iraqi court had ruled months ago that there was no case against him months ago. And we are still holding more than 6,000 people for various reasons, and few of them have even had a hearing.
No wonder Guantanamo has been so difficult for our government to close.
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