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Originally posted by sgalczyn:

Hence the traits that I highlighted as key to SA:
" People with this diagnosis tend to be suspicious and mistrustful of other people, tense and nervous in social situations, and on the lookout for threat, " says Chris Hopwood, PhD, a professor of psychology at University of Zurich.

The only one of those that's related to SA is "on the lookout for threat.".

None of the others have any connection to situational awareness.

Maybe the Professor who came up with idea is a little bit cocoon.

The DSM is generally good in diagnosing mental illness and emotional disorders, but you have to know how to use it. But if the new revision states that "gender dysphoria" should be taken as fact and "transition" is the proper treatment, they we will know it has been corrupted.

Almost all people have some traits that are indicated for various issues. Is is the beginner's mistake to diagnose almost everyone they know as having a disorder. Just about every woman in the middle-aged dating pool will talk about her "narcissist" ex.

It's all a matter of degree. A person does not have a "disorder" unless it significantly impairs normal life functioning. So if you are picky about things you buy or how you arrange your house you are not clinically OCD. If your house looks like an episode of "hoarders" and you can't leave because you keep locking and unlocking the door for hours to make sure you didn't leave it unlocked, then have to go back and check again, you probably have OCD.

If you are suspicious that the government is lying to you, have general mistrust of people you do not know, or find your partner's unavailability due to "working late" and inability to answer calls or messages during that time to be a bit suspicious, you are not clinically paranoid.

If you go full tinfoil hat in a faraday cage, with cameras surrounding your mobile home with 10 foot high razor wire fences, you might be paranoid.

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If you know someone who is always suspicious and holds grudges, they may have PPD

This describes pretty much every guy over 50.

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Chris Hopwood, PhD, a professor of psychology at University of Zurich

Publish or Perish. Somewhere in Zurich there's a Ph D who had to come up with something.

Sounds to me that the authors/editors of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders have PPD.

Those the symptoms of paranoia under the DSM V (or whatever the current version is). That has nothing to do with being aware.

Maybe the OP should talk to someone?

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Sounds to me that the authors/editors of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders have PPD

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Yep. Also an insane amount of greed. Not just selling the updated DSM but also creating new "diagnoses" that will require some sort of new expensive pill. People have not really changed all that much in the last 100 years, yet we have created new neuroses so Big Pharma can rake in the bucks. Freud would have a field day.

^^ The difference was in Freud's day you were just "crazy" and there wasn't anything they could do for you except lock you up in a mental hospital, or talk to you about your mother.

By the mid 20th century Lithium salts were used for Schizophrenia and other organic brain disorders but with massive side effects. But they did help bring people back to reality, sort of. And by the 60's benzodiazepines (Valium and the like) were developed to help with anxiety, and unfortunately prescribed for depression which is not really very smart - giving sedatives to depressed people often does not end well.

Since then a huge variety of useful medications without all the side effects and without the potential for addiction and abuse have been developed. They do work and they do make a difference for people that actually need them.

However, not every housewife needs anti-depressants and not every energetic young boy needs Ritalin.

Part of the problem is modern life which puts stresses on human brains that we have not evolved to handle properly. Our brains still fall back to fight or flight under stress, even if there is no actual physical danger. Humans are still attracted to other humans that are the seen as the most fit for survival and reproduction in a primitive wold, but the skills and traits for success in the modern world are very very different, which leads to irrational decisions and behaviors, or worse.

And another part is our lack of effort needed to survive. Long time ago, dysfunctional people ended up dying of their inability to care for themselves. Not anymore, than can just be "homeless" in CA.

I'm not advocating classifying every human being has having some kind mental disorder or another, but delineating "crazy" into multiple shades of crazy with different characteristics that respond best to different treatments is helpful.

But as I said before, if and when the DSM recommends "transition" as treatment for gender dysphoria instead of counseling to accept their natural body, when we can be sure it has been corrupted by politics and no longer represents scientific research and judgement.

Maybe I'm more sensitive to this because I've lost several people in my life to their own suicides, and I am fairly certain that the right treatment at the right time, both talk therapy and pharmaceutical, would have saved most, if not all of them.

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But as I said before, if and when the DSM recommends "transition" as treatment for gender dysphoria instead of counseling to accept their natural body, when we can be sure it has been corrupted by politics and no longer represents scientific research and judgement.

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The new DSM edition comes out in March. You will know soon. The DSM has always been hypersensitive to trends. I would expect it to be WOKE with new diagnoses that will require a pill from Big Pharma and provide work for starving psychiatrists. One of the new ones is Caffeine Withdrawal disorder. WTF