i'm sorry, you're sick.

This, below, is from the Zoloft website. For anyone who may not know, which is unlikely because of the sick amount of drugpushing adverts, Zoloft is a drug used to... treat... obsessive compulsive disorder. I don't mean to suggest that it doesn't work. However, it's becoming increasingly clear to me that "disorders" and "conditions" etc, of the mind, are not truly diagnosable. There is no standard practice. Just ask any psychiatrist. Or doctor. Doctors have standard practices, ways of looking at symptoms and predicting that a patient may have a condition. They then run tests, blood tests, biopsy, etc, to determine if they are correct. Most often, if a doctor says you have such and such disease, and you've been tested, you've actually got it. In mental medical practices however, there are no such standard tests. Yeah, really. It's obvious. What's also obvious, and what I'm getting at, is that these conditions have been basically invented, popularized, and pushed by the very drug companies that profit from them. It's similar to our problems with oil right now. We are made to believe that we have a dependence on something, and before long, we do. We don't ask questions and we just buy into it.
Anyway, rant over. Below, you'll find a questionnaire, created by Zoloft. I'll bet you've got OCD!!! They can help!!!


Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder Checklist

If you think you might be suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms, this checklist can help you talk about your concerns with your doctor.
Just print this page, answer the questions and take the finished checklist to an appointment with a doctor or other healthcare professional. Your answers can help your doctor determine if you have OCD.

1. Do thoughts come into your mind that you have trouble getting rid of and that don’t make sense? YES, OF COURSE
2. Do you believe these thoughts are coming from your own mind, rather than from some outside source? YES, UM YEAH SOMETIMES
3. Do you wash your hands more than other people? YES, SOME OTHER PEOPLE
4. Do you have to check things over and over? YES, I WAS CONDITIONED TO DO THIS IN SCHOOL FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS. IT'S A GOOD IDEA.
5. Is there any other behavior you find you cannot resist and/or are doing more often than you think you should? YES, I'M A HUMAN ANIMAL. WE ALL ARE.
6. Do you have to have things done just so or in a certain order? YES, SOMETIMES. I USUALLY EAT BEFORE I SHIT, OR WAKE UP BEFORE I DRESS, ETC.
7. Does thinking these thoughts or performing these repetitious behaviors bother you a lot? YES, SOMETIMES. SOME OF THESE THINGS EVEN CAUSE ME TO LEARN. SOME OF THESE THINGS DEFINE WHO I AM AND HOW I AM DIFFERENT.
8. Do the thoughts and/or the behaviors interfere with your day-to-day functioning? YES, PROBABLY SINCE THAT IS A BUNCH OF LOOSELY DEFINED TERMS AND SUGGESTIONS PUT TOGETHER TO IMPLY SOME KIND OF MEDICALLY VALID SENTENCE.


I guess I'll have to get on Zoloft immediately.
One thing that really makes me sick is that on the actual questionnaire, there are only two options, "YES" and "NO".
This is rubbish.
I can't wait for the future.