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Slack.com slash DHQ. So I wrote an article a few weeks ago titled, We Have Turn Childhood

Into A Mental Disorder. And I've been wanting to do a show on the topic and I thought, now

it's as good a time as any, especially because the main reason I wanted to visit this topic

again is because when I mistake I made, when I wrote that article, is that I think I

was being too limited in my scope. The truth is that we've not only turned childhood

into a mental disorder, we have in fact turned the human condition into a mental disorder.

We have turned humanity. Just the very state of being a human being has now turned into

a mental disorder. I would argue. There are about 300 mental disorders listed in the

diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, the BSM, kind of the Bible of mental

disorders. And according to a report published on the National Institute of Health website in

2005, about half of the population, half of the population will qualify for mental illness

at some point in their lives, their lives by the standards of the BSM, okay? Half of the

population. Now, here's an interesting logical question. How can you even call it a disorder

if half of the population has it? It would be like, if half of the population had three

arms, let's say, it would be very hard to determine that having three arms is a disorder

or a mutation because it's kind of like, well, you got one half with that. How do you know

which half is the disordered one? I guess is the question. The psychiatric industry, though,

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