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Saturday, July 25. 2009

Diagnostic madness in the DMS-5.

I knew they went over the edge when they began talking about Sex Addiction. Who gets to define that? These are the sorts of thing that makes people think shrinks are nuts, and damage their reputations as serious Docs. You cannot pathologize every human idiosyncrasy, desire, hobby, or preoccupation, because these are the things that make people interesting, unique, and colorful.

But for some sanity, making things out of wood leads to happiness. I have no doubt.

No signs of Wood-Working Addiction Disorder yet, but it's probably coming - right after Book-Worm Disorder, TV-Watching Disorder, Stamp Collecting Disorder, Bird Watching Disorder, and Diagnosis-Inventing Disorder.

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How do you define excessive sexual activity?
Maggie's Farm describes how psychiatrists and others have "gone nuts" due to their desire to include sex addiction, shopping addiction and other behaviors as clinical disorders in the forthcoming DSM-V which is a revision of current Diagnostic and Statis

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Oh it's already here it's just called 'Wood-Working
Tool Buying Addiction Disorder' . I seem to recall one about Bass Fishing Boat Buying Disorder also...

#1 dorf on 2009-07-25 18:26 (Reply)

I suffered from a Shotgun-Buying Disorder for a while, but I have been in recovery since Mrs. BD took over the finances.

#1.1 bd on 2009-07-25 18:30 (Reply)

I read Maggie's every day. Please, help me...

#2 Jephnol (Link) on 2009-07-25 22:13 (Reply)

I have managed to combine the first two disorders into "shotgun stock-making disorder."

For me, true happiness is just another set of skew chisels and another pint of tung oil away...

Plus Maggie Mania of course.

#3 Skookumchuk on 2009-07-25 23:02 (Reply)

haha..
mahogany + tung oil + elbow grease= God's gift of beauty

#3.1 ron on 2009-07-26 00:15 (Reply)

Every one is another step up the Celestial Staircase.

#3.1.1 Skookumchuk on 2009-07-26 00:54 (Reply)

ha... last step on the Celestial Staircase - when everything dries and you take a dry rag and zing it across the top of a fifty-cent junk table now worth 500 bucks and it zips right off the opposite edge like a little block of wood on ice.

The Hellatious Staircase is getting the tung oil stain off your hands because Dad said the only way was to use your hands.
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#3.1.1.1 Meta on 2009-07-26 12:47 (Reply)

Once the latest shotgun stock-making exercise is done (I'm a lefty, so I modify them or lately make my own... that's how I started) there is an antique music cabinet out in the garage that was slowly warping itself into oblivion as it cried out for my tender ministrations. That project is now about half done. Time to whip up another batch of shellac from the flakes. Gotta strain out the bug parts with cheese cloth first, though.

Shotguns, volatile chemicals, goo, bug parts... it's a big kid's paradise.

#3.1.1.1.1 Skookumchuk on 2009-07-26 13:42 (Reply)

oooh... warped. Did you soak it down and put boards over it with bricks and cinder blocks and let it dry in the sun?

I love that part. Best is using that goo to get four layers of green paint off a cabinet with 14" wide pine boards and glass that moves.

Hate when a bug gets in the tungseed oil...
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#3.1.1.1.1.1 Meta on 2009-07-26 20:02 (Reply)

Actually comma (he said pedantically) no bugs in the tung oil, which comes from a nut tree in China, but shellac and bugs, well now.

#3.1.1.1.1.1.1 Skookumchuk on 2009-07-26 20:22 (Reply)

I use already mixed tungseed oil. You can put a lot of layers on so that nothing penetrates it. What I was talking about is when a bug gets on the piece you're working on and lands in the oil before it's dry. The fourth layer of oil.

It's not as if you can get any pleasure out of smashing the bug because he's long dead.... or stuck without his wings and one leg up feeling for freedom. :(

:)

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#3.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Meta on 2009-07-26 21:08 (Reply)

Ahhh, I see.

:-)

#3.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Skookumchuk on 2009-07-26 22:47 (Reply)

I've been saying for years that the folks who put out the DSM have been on a march to eventually classify all human behavior as mental illness...looks like they're most of the way there, now...

#4 Brian Swisher on 2009-07-26 10:12 (Reply)

I thought you'd be linking to Sippy re wood working . . .

#5 Sissy Willis (Link) on 2009-07-26 10:37 (Reply)

I have a woodturning disorder. See here http://www.ArtOfInfiniteThread.com//. This is a subset of woodworking disorder and includes the aforementioned wood-working tool addiction disorder. Curiously enough, my wife is supportive of my habits, despite being a psychotherapist.

#6 WebSpinner on 2009-07-26 16:34 (Reply)

Love the bowls. Is it tough to turn spalted wood?

I think that whenever you are busy doing something they are supportive. It may not even matter what the something is. It's when you are staring off in to the middle distance doing nothing that there may be problems.

#6.1 Skookumchuk on 2009-07-26 19:05 (Reply)

Thanks. Spalting is a mold infestation, usually associated with a bit of rot, which makes the wood softer and a little punky. Some woods manage that better than others. On woods like boxelder, ash, and maple (commonly turned spalted), you usually don't notice a difference.

I turned some spalted buckeye burl once, really difficult. The dark wood was rock-hard, interspersed with really soft, punky, spalted blond wood. I threw it around the shop a lot trying to turn it. It survived and turned out beautiful - lasted less than a week in the gallery before someone bought it.

A lot of folks I know who do this are retired military, have shops in their basements. Their wives are delighted with not having to pull them out of bars at 2 am.

#6.1.1 Webspinner on 2009-07-27 06:15 (Reply)

Thanks for showing that. Extremely interesting! Best? - The one-of-a-kind. I love that along with your obvious dedication and pleasure to your unique hobby.
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#6.1.1.1 Meta on 2009-07-27 13:20 (Reply)

Anyone else here have "wide-board" disorder? My brother has it bad. Stacks of incredible sycamore, black walnut, cherry, poplar and a few others, stickered and aging, some for quite a few years...of course, the first taste was free.

#7 doug l on 2009-07-27 17:34 (Reply)

But I can stop any time I want.

#7.1 Skookumchuk on 2009-07-27 18:16 (Reply)

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