Now that is interesting! Wait till I show it to my witch doctor friends!
@Bigun Just wear your nose plugs, or at least get upwind of them.
And WHILE YOU'RE AT IT,
Ask Them Why the DSM (Diagnostics and Statistical manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) contains a great big old honking WARNING in the front of it to NOT - WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHORS/PUBLISHERS - the American Psychiatric Association, REPUBLISH ANY PART OF THIS BOOK under legal penalties/copyright infringement etc.
The DSM contains the Diagnostic Criteria used to Label and Identify Someone to Government as having an Incurably Sick/Disordered mind.
IF, any of these fraudsters, quacks, and charlatans had any intention of Helping People rather than Cannibalizing them, and Any of their scientistic Disease Mongering Gibberish held any Validity, AT ALL, you'd think, . . . they would be Anxious for people who might be Developing one of their 'Illnesses' to be able to Identify the Warning Signs in their own lives and make the appropriate changes to avoid becoming INCURABLE.
The DSM's real purpose is to provide numeric Billing Codes its users can submit to Insurers for payment.
Oh, and as for the INCURABLE part of it?
https://psychroaches.blogspot.com/search/label/California%20Diversion%20ProgramsDepends on who is "One of the Protected, Professional, In Crowd".
It's also violations of extent Federal Civil Rights Statutes.
See Sec 1 of the 14th Amendment.
and
US Title 18 Sec 241 and 242