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<blockquote data-quote="rlongnt" data-source="post: 3084510" data-attributes="member: 665"><p>&quot;Psychiatrists have, for hundreds of years used diagnostic terms, so-called diagnostic terms to stigmatize and control people. I will only give you a few dramatic examples. When black slaves in the south ran away to freedom, it wasn&#039;t that they wanted to be free; they suffered from a disease called drapetomania, from drapetes, runaway slave, and mania. I&#039;m not making this up. This was a legitimate diagnosis just like Attention Deficit Disorder is. Women, half the population of mankind, of course, if they were foolish enough to rebel against domination by man, well, then they had a serious disease called hysteria which was due to their wandering womb. Now none of those behaviors was ever a disease and of course, is not a disease. Nor is Attention Deficit Disorder a disease. No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. That&#039;s not what diseases are!&quot; (Thomas Szasz)</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="rlongnt, post: 3084510, member: 665"] "Psychiatrists have, for hundreds of years used diagnostic terms, so-called diagnostic terms to stigmatize and control people. I will only give you a few dramatic examples. When black slaves in the south ran away to freedom, it wasn't that they wanted to be free; they suffered from a disease called drapetomania, from drapetes, runaway slave, and mania. I'm not making this up. This was a legitimate diagnosis just like Attention Deficit Disorder is. Women, half the population of mankind, of course, if they were foolish enough to rebel against domination by man, well, then they had a serious disease called hysteria which was due to their wandering womb. Now none of those behaviors was ever a disease and of course, is not a disease. Nor is Attention Deficit Disorder a disease. No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. That's not what diseases are!" (Thomas Szasz) [/QUOTE]

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