Re: DSM-5 - Hypersexual Disorder

[Guest guest]

I managed to post some stuff about PSSD on Phil Hickly's site today. I

have lost a lot of confidence recently and don't feel very well at the

moment but I think what I wrote was okay.

Kv

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> I wish I could have my hypersexual disorder back, it could do my head

in

> sometimes but it was so much fun. I found this on an interesting site

> recently:

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> Lane recently published an interesting article

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<http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201204/american-sex-an\

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> d-american-psychiatry> on Psychology Today.

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> The article covers a number of topics, including the APA's proposal

> to include " hypersexual disorder " in the upcoming DSM-5. The

> implications of this proposed " diagnosis " are that if you think

> about sex too much or engage in sexual activity too much, then you

have

> a mental illness.

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> Back in the 60's, when I was at college, I would frequently find

> myself chatting with a group of fellow students on a wide range of

> topics, including sex. Often someone would cite the old statistic that

> the average young adult male thinks about sex 171 times a day (or

> whatever), to which the chorus of replies was always – " no way;

> it's much more often than that. "

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> The point being – who's to say that a person is engaging in too

> much sexual activity? Only the APA, with its self-serving agenda of

> medicalizing more and more aspects of normal human existence coupled

> with its monumental arrogance, would take such a step.

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> Professor Phil Hickly, Behaviourism and Mental Health:

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> http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/

> <http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/>

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> Kv

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