Visitor submit by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission
DNC Conference Protestors. “Joyful Warriors” or Crazed Psychological Sufferers?
The next was republished with permission from AbleChild.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat nominee for President, has just lately begun to consult with the Democrat ticket as “joyful warriors.” The phrase coined from remarks made by her operating mate Tim Walz praising Harris throughout a rally saying, “thanks for bringing again the enjoyment.” That is an fascinating phrase to signify the Democrat ticket when one considers that research after research has decided that liberals get pleasure from poorer psychological well being than conservatives.
In line with a research reported within the Columbia Magazine, “American adults who determine as politically liberal have lengthy reported decrease ranges of happiness and psychological well-being.” And a bunch of Columbia epidemiologists discovered proof that “the identical sample holds for American youngsters…whereas the charges of melancholy have been rising amongst college students of all political persuasions and demographics, they’ve been rising most sharply amongst progressive college students…”
The authors speculated that the explanation for the elevated psychological well being points may very well be “left-leaning teenagers could have been affected by Donald Trump’s election as president, the US Supreme Courtroom’s subsequent lurch to the appropriate, rising socioeconomic inequality, and worsening political polarization.”
That is an fascinating speculation as a result of it displays the shortage of drugs and science related to psychiatric psychological problems. It’s laborious to think about that medical docs would diagnose most cancers or different ailments based mostly on political occasions of the day. Try to visualize the absurdity of it… “yep, Congress simply handed the Freeway invoice so it’s potential you could have diabetes.” However that is precisely how psychological problems are recognized, and Harris is a giant supporter of psychological well being parity – psychological problems which are lined by insurance coverage corporations as equal as medical circumstances.
The Democrat nominee’s 2022 remarks on the Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. replicate what she is aware of about psychological well being. The Vice President defined that “on the problem of psychological well being, you already know, a technique to consider it’s this: In case you knew somebody who broke their arm, you’ll assist them. You’d be sure that they went to the hospital to get a solid…”
The issue with the Vice President’s understanding of psychological sickness is that it isn’t based mostly in science or drugs. Each psychological dysfunction throughout the Diagnostic Statistical Handbook of the American Psychiatric Affiliation (DSM) is made up of checklist of behaviors…not goal, confirmable, abnormalities.
Utilizing Harris’s damaged arm state of affairs in an actual medical emergency an X-ray can be taken (goal), see the bone damaged within the X-ray (confirmable) and the damaged bone must be corrected (abnormality). There isn’t a check identified to man to objectively diagnose a single psychological dysfunction. And, worse nonetheless, relying on the physician, any variety of psychiatric diagnoses may very well be made as a result of there isn’t a goal check (X-ray, blood work, urine pattern, and so on.,) that may diagnose any identified psychiatric abnormality. So, based mostly on the checklist of behaviors within the DSM, voila, you could have a psychological dysfunction.
And whereas polling individuals about their psychological well-being is fascinating, what isn’t a part of the equation is whether or not the particular person being polled has taken any psychiatric treatment, which treatment(s) and for the way lengthy. The drug consumption will make a distinction within the conduct of these being quizzed. Afterall, keep in mind that antidepressants carry the black field warning, the Meals and Drug Administration’s (FDA) most critical warning, for suicidal ideation. And many of the melancholy medicine carry identified adversarial results that embody mania, psychosis, irregular conduct, agitation, aggressiveness, hostility, and melancholy.
It’s been reported that tens-of-thousands intend to protest quite a lot of points on the DNC Conference in Chicago this week, together with these protesting for a cease-fire within the Israel-Hamas battle, abortion/ “Reproductive Rights” and LGBTQ+ rights.
Whereas it’s nonetheless early within the Conference, small protests have occurred exterior, and one can’t assist however marvel what half psychological sickness could also be taking part in. Contemplating the research that counsel liberals endure larger psychological well being points, one may additionally conclude that it’s liberals that can be protesting on the DNC. If true, and most of the protestors are sad, offended, and medicated, what may be anticipated when the bigger protests start later within the week. If it turns into an unhinged free-for-all, did the psychological well being standing play a task? It’s anybody’s guess.
One factor is certain. The Vice President stands agency on her help of psychological well being providers. For instance, final January Harris introduced an extra $285 million in funding for schools to rent and practice psychological well being counselors. In asserting the elevated funding, although, the Vice President stated “the No. 1 killer of our youngsters is gun violence…” This isn’t correct.
The No.1 killer of youngsters within the U.S. is abortion by a big majority. In truth, based on Pew Analysis, the newest knowledge on baby gun deaths for 2019-2021 is 2,590, whereas on the similar time Pew stories that in 2021, alone, there have been greater than 625,000 abortions carried out within the District of Columbia and 46 states.
However, everybody can agree that even one baby loss of life from gunshot is just too many and assist to take care of trauma skilled from weapons violence ought to be accessible to all. The issue, in fact, is whether or not psychological well being “remedy” within the type of mind-altering prescription psychiatric medicine is useful, on condition that it doesn’t “deal with” any identified abnormality.
Maybe Vice President Harris will make new psychological well being coverage a part of her conference platform and converse of it throughout her nomination speech. Possibly Harris’s psychological well being polices will make a distinction amongst depressed liberals and they’re going to turn out to be the “joyful warriors” Harris envisions.
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