Disordered World

The other day as I was vegetating (i.e sitting and eating my veggies ) in front of the TV there was this ridiculous ad for a drug that supposedly treated Social Anxiety Disorder !!! It went something like "Are you scared of social interactions ? do you not enjoy being with other people ? If so, then you may be sufferring from Social Anxiety Disorder . There is a new drug called blah blah to treat it . Ask your doctor today if prescription blah blah is right for you.
Side effects include dry mouth, fatigue, constipation, nausea and vomiting, yada yada yada."
The ad claimed to treat the disorder and make you happy and interactive in social settings....ya right...will join you right after I throw up....Jeez. I would gladly stay at home with my disorder than puke all day! This is Absane (absurdly insane ...i am on the roll here :-))

Whats with people in the medical profession and their need to name every microscopically insignificant deviation from 'normal' as a Disorder ? I am not even sure what is normal anymore.
I agree depression is a serious neurological problem , but what about behavioural disorders, eating, sleeping....SOCIAL disorders ??? I mean come on ....are'nt we taking this too far now ? What that kid with the eating disorder needs is some good old spanking from his mom coupled with a lengthy discourse of how children in somalia starve for days withour food ( I bet we all got those lectures ! ). And with these countless pharma companies churning out drugs for every itch, twitch and sneeze, are we going to end up popping pills like M&M's day in and day out ?

In Adult Attention Deficit Disorder, you can't stay focused on something for a long time ....hey who can, other than a hypnotised zombie ? Its mindboggling when you realise there are people who have been diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder , borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, panic disorder, paranoid disorder ....its all become so...so...disorderly

The sad part is however the increasing numbers of children being 'diagnosed' and put on these medications. Is this the price we pay for advancements in science and medicine that the future generation will probably never be able to get out of bed without ingesting a handful of those magic pills ??? Why can't we respect our mind and body anymore and trust it to take care of itself ?

I better sign off ...don't want to end up suffering from obsessive blogsessive disorder !!!