The television sitcom, “Designing Women,” back in the 1980s, had an episode where the characters made fun of psychiatric diagnoses such as narcissism, borderline personality and the like. They called it, “Obnoxious Personality Disorder.” The show was way ahead of its time in this critique. People today love to label everyone they dislike a narcissist, a borderline personality, etc. They’re following the nod of the mental health Establishment. What they’re really describing is just plain OBNOXIOUS people: sad, small souls who feel a need to take their malevolent, gloomy world views out on other people. It’s not a disease. It’s a nasty character flaw. It’s really a way of trying to bring others down with you. Call it narcissist, borderline or whatever the next label our psychiatric industry comes up with — it’s just plain OBNOXIOUS.
The psychiatric industry is giving moral cover to obnoxious people by pretending it’s a disorder, like a medical disease. Ridiculous.
Speaking of the psychiatric industry … what about the popular phrase nowadays, “on the spectrum”? “On the spectrum” is a label that refers to socially awkward behavior, usually mixed with higher than average intelligence. It’s represented as a medical disease without really any evidence to support it. Federal money is poured into it, making autism consultants and experts rich via Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement. Follow the money. Stop the money flow, and we go back to calling “on the spectrum” social awkwardness.
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