Somatic Symptom Disorder could capture millions more under mental health diagnosis
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By Suzy Chapman | Dx Revision Watch
Update: My submission to the Somatic Symptom Disorder Work Group in response to the third DSM-5 draft and stakeholder review can be read here: Chapman Response to Third Draft DSM-5 SSD Proposals
May 26, 2012
While media and professional attention has been focused on the implications for introducing new disorders into the…
I feel a tremendous responsibility to write this article though I am a little apprehensive. Thinking about the possibility of rising up against our own government is a frightening thing for many of us. I am not Johnny Rambo and I will be the first to admit that I do not want to die. The reason I feel compelled to write this, however, is simply because…
By Michael Allen, Thu, November 08, 2012
Lyons Jewelers, in Bedford, Virginia, was closed on Wednesday. A sign in the store stated the closing was to "mourn the loss of the America that our forefathers endowed to us."
Another sign in the store read: "Lyons will reopen tomorrow to continue the fight against a president who seeks my demise" and "Shame on VA & USA," reports WDBJ-TV.
by Allen West on Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 2:37pm
"I knew General Carter Ham from my active duty service in the Army and have interacted with him as a member of the House Armed Services Committee. General Ham possesses an impeccable reputation built upon an exceptional character, integrity beyond reproach, and a keen warrior ethos. It is absolutely astonishing to me that all of a sudden General Ham was removed from AFRICOM Command and is now retiring.
Allow me to introduce this story by citing the words of one of the few honest journalists left in the "profession":
"I really believe, having read it, that it is the smoking gun warning here. You've got this emergency meeting in Benghazi, less than a month before the attack. At that briefing, the people are told that there are ten, ten, Islamic militias and al-Qaeda groups in Benghazi.
Mexico's Attorney General Morales, the first woman to hold that office, believes Obama knows more about guns smuggled into Mexico than he's admitting.
