John Ronson Dissociative Identity Disorder
The mind is certainly the most terrifying place a man could ever visit. Every human mind that is active has its fatal flaw. Diagnosis creators themselves have their own as well. They are the minds that have the unsatisfiable hunger to categorize every human being that still has breath. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) gives you approximately a fifty percent chance of being diagnosed with some “mental disorder” throughout your lifetime. It is absolutely ridiculous that there are approximately three hundred disorders listed. The Psychopath Test, written by Jon Ronson, recognizes the faults in psychiatry and psychology. Although psychopaths are known for their mass murderers, psychologists are making
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‘That boundary is very populous. The most crowded boundary is the boundary with normal’”(Jon Ronson 245). As mentioned before, the possibility of being diagnosed a mental disorder is growing which means being normal, is now considered to be insane. Those who are sad, yet happy involving some sort of bittersweet event, are now considered bipolar. Those who love to imagine themselves as completely different characters can be considered to have Dissociative Identity Disorder. Young children who have a lot of energy are considered to have intellectual disability. It is knowledgeable that these are, in fact, real and serious conditions, but haven’t the psychologists taken diagnosing a step too …show more content…
Criminals encouraged into thinking that acting like a psychopath would get them into a little, cushy hospital, realize now that there is no way out after determined to the title. They discover they are stuck for life. These criminals get put into mental institutions and end up staying much longer than their original sentence. When in the institution, trying to prove your sanity will only claim that you are denying it, proving you’re mad. Acting normal will get you nowhere. It is simply categorized as imitation. To the supervisors, it’s just another psychopathic trait. This is one of the saddest flaws of the mind. We find a need to sort people like pawns in a board game without realizing the consequential
‘That boundary is very populous. The most crowded boundary is the boundary with normal’”(Jon Ronson 245). As mentioned before, the possibility of being diagnosed a mental disorder is growing which means being normal, is now considered to be insane. Those who are sad, yet happy involving some sort of bittersweet event, are now considered bipolar. Those who love to imagine themselves as completely different characters can be considered to have Dissociative Identity Disorder. Young children who have a lot of energy are considered to have intellectual disability. It is knowledgeable that these are, in fact, real and serious conditions, but haven’t the psychologists taken diagnosing a step too …show more content…
Criminals encouraged into thinking that acting like a psychopath would get them into a little, cushy hospital, realize now that there is no way out after determined to the title. They discover they are stuck for life. These criminals get put into mental institutions and end up staying much longer than their original sentence. When in the institution, trying to prove your sanity will only claim that you are denying it, proving you’re mad. Acting normal will get you nowhere. It is simply categorized as imitation. To the supervisors, it’s just another psychopathic trait. This is one of the saddest flaws of the mind. We find a need to sort people like pawns in a board game without realizing the consequential