Wednesday, 13 January 2010

i don't get the molehill-mountain complex


so in the likeness of the Macdonald Triad (proneness to homicidal tendencies: animal cruelty, enuresis= bed-wetting, compulsive fire starting) I thought it'd be neat to improvise a diagnostic schedule on a patently less serious although regrettably more prevalent condition.

The Buzzkill Hipster Quadratic:
a) caustic
b) apathetic
c) depressogenic (causative factor in melancholic disposition- yes, taking liberties here)
d) alcoholic/narcotic-ally-inclined

If all of the a4mentioned facets are checked please refer to commune and/or guided walkabout for ritualistic spiritual cleansing in expeditious manner.

Positive results have been exhibited in the following recovered B-H Quadratic cases:
-Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens
-Angelina Jolie
-Leonard Cohen
-Courtney Love and Woodrow Tracy Harrelson
-former lead singer of Ima Robot, Alex Ebert, turned Edward Sharpe



What's crazy? The guide that purports to answer this question, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) classifies clinical-PMS as Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder and formerly classified homosexuality as genuine mental illnesses. If there is a way to pathologize 'periodic hysterical female behaviour' and thus treat with pharmaceuticals, Caplan responds, "why isn't there a Delusional Dominating Personality Disorder for men?"

Culture-bound syndromes are fascinating. Koro or Genital Retraction Syndrome occurs quite frequently in part of Asia where an individual is overcome with the belief that his/her external genitals are retracting into the body, shrinking, or in some male cases, may be imminently removed or disappear. A penis panic is a mass hysteria event or panic in which male members of a population suddenly experience this belief.


NY Times article on the Americanization of conceptualizations of "crazy" across cultures.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html?th&emc=th


I can't end on that. 

:)


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