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05/03/2005: "Diagnosing Dittohead Disabilities and Disorders by Video"

As I was weeding through the amazing number of mental disorders known to science (including the amazing number clearly demonstrated by extreme right wing figures we know so well), it hit me that I was doing video diagnosis! Most of the behavior I’ve been witnessing takes the form of moving television images. Earlier this year I would have viewed such diagnoses with suspicion, but Dr. Sen. Frist has blazed a path for all of us! And it really fits in nicely with the entire trend of extreme right wing action in the sphere of medical care, doesn’t it? Just consider how the entire group (and not just the physicians) have set themselves up as medical experts. They don’t hesitate for a second to second-guess the judgment of doctors. Just look what our President had to say about what’s best for patients when he recently weighed in on the “Grandmother Incarceration Bill” that would create two new federal crimes related to securing an abortion in a state with less restrictive notification laws than the patent’s home state: the law would “protect the health and safety of minors by ensuring that state parental involvement laws are not circumvented.” What does carrying your state’s laws around with you like a backpack have to do with “health and safety?” Well, that’s were we come back to today’s topic: right wing mental disorders. My nominee for the common mental disorder most associated with right wing medical nosiness is Manic Behavior. Here are the symptoms, each followed in parenthesis with as much text as necessary (a full paragraph, if needed) justifying this symptom as a right wing medical disorder. Here we go:
- inflated self-esteem or grandiosity (Schiavo)
- more talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking (Schiavo)
- attention is easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant items (Schiavo)
- excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences, e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, indiscretions, or foolish investments. (Schiavo)
Yep, an open and shut case!