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Wednesday, February 25. 2015

Everything is a disease now


I recently learned that "HD" - Hoarding Disorder - is now a reimbursable and nameable disease. It has long been considered just an eccentricity.


What drives the disease craze? Big Pharma, and insurance. Normal variants are labeled as diseases and disorders. Think ADD, ED, infertility, fear of dying, and on and on. I term them, smirkingly, "life-style disorders."


Here's an emerging new disorder: A Pill That Boosts a Woman’s Sex Drive Is Almost Here. But Do We Need It?


What shall we term the medical disorder which this pill fixes?


Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Our Essays, Psychology, and Dr. Bliss, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:40 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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"I recently learned that 'HD' - Hoarding Disorder - is now a reimbursable and nameable disease."

Thanks, Doc!

At last, the perfect excuse to use on my wife whenever she starts talking about the piles of stuff I need to sort and purge in our basement:

"Honey, you know I suffer from HD."
#1 JJM on 2015-02-25 14:59 (Reply)
Marriage.
#2 Someone on 2015-02-25 16:22 (Reply)
Gynomite.
#3 Mike on 2015-02-25 18:21 (Reply)
Your mental illness bars you from legally owning a gun.

Look at who is defining mental illness to see where this is going.
#4 fjord on 2015-02-25 18:44 (Reply)
I know! The pill fixes: being married!
#5 Earl T on 2015-03-22 10:59 (Reply)
How about Obsessive Diagnosis Compulsion - is that on their list yet?
#6 nightspore on 2015-03-22 17:49 (Reply)

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