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Affected kids cannot maintain eye contact, struggle to play with others

A renowned psychiatrist recognizes his contribution to the autism overdiagnosis crisis and the resulting diagnostic fads due to the loose terms of the DSM-4.

They said, while everything originates in the brain, this is not a problem of her brain. the psychiatrist, four of the leading psychiatrists in the country, including the editors of the dsm 4 and the dsm 5, the psychological manual of medicine, they now recognize exorcism. they call it dissociative identity disorder, demonic possession. >> how did it change your understanding of that mystery of evil? >> there was no other explanation for what was going on. i always thought, there is probably som...

George taf ffey, what is your reaction to the latest incident involving your friend george zimmerman, given its the fourth time i think hes been involved in such a clash with the police? >> well, piers, in my honest opinion and im not a medical doctor, but i believe that george is suffering from untreated posttraumatic stress disorder, and i base it upon, you know, some of the criteria that i read in the dsm 4 which is now the 5, one of the guests on another show is on -- corrected me on that an...

Disorder. >> i said hes suffering from untreated -- >> why should he have guns? >> lets take the event, the life changing event, the trama that he just experienced. okay? hes on his way out to target. next thing you know hes living his life on the run and hes got quite a few people after him. okay? because they believe that he murdered, as you call -- >> he called an unarmed teenager. >> yeah. >> piers -- >> thats what he did. >> the facts in the case were proven beyond a reasonable doubt. okay?...

Various types of disorders. since that manual came out, doctor, the diagnoses of adhd tripled. that feeds into the point that parents say, look, every kield now has adhd. is it because of the looser, broader definition of adhd? >> the rates have gone from 3% to 10%. 4% of kids get medication. we predicted a 15% chance. why has it tripled? two things happened we didnt anticipate -- expensive new drugs on patent came to the market. this gave the drug companies the means and motivationing to advert...

It. certainly the cosmetic use of these medications for performance enhancement makes no sense at all. >> does it put their heart -- its essentially amphetamines which is a type of speed to put it in context for the audience. is it risky? >> it can cause anxiety, sleeplessness, weight loss. in some kids it causes cardiac problems. the long-term effects are largely unknown. in some kids it may provoke manic episodes. in others it could be a risk factor for substance dependence, but the medication...

Them off? >> bill: i think thats pretty harsh you dont know why he wanted to talk to her. >> why is that harsh? >> bill: im not sure he is as militant as you are proper at ing him. i could be wrong. i dont know the man. lets go to the wider question. here you have a very high profile guy who did what he did, all right? and, you are right, its in the public square. but with the secular country in which we live and with the media championing all kinds of alternative lifestyles and you know they do...

And thats when i checked out of the whole thing. then she was on the "real housewives of d.c." which i refused to watch. because they were on it. then she got kicked off "celebrity rehab" because she wasnt addicted to everything. apparently the dsm-4 does not recognize fame as something you be be addicted to -- yet. so i thought that was it for her, but shes risen again like a phoenix in a turn of events that makes me want to travel back to 1877 to stop edison from inventing the phonograph. mich...

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