Comments on: DSM Shadow Team: Female Sexual Dysfunction? (And Kupfer et al Strike Back)

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By: skillsnotpills

skillsnotpills — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:48:20 +0000

You think psychiatrists practice projection as much as the patients we treat? Keep up the heat on these assholes who pretend to represent and embolden the principles of responsible psychiatry.

I hope you will let the following comment be printed, because it is how I feel and should reflect what at least one psychiatrist thinks of this DSM V crap:

I hope Schatzberg and his cronies get so exposed for their fraudulant actions that it brings down the APA once and for all. These are fucking greedy, insensitive, devious, and dangerous old men and women who exemplify the sociopaths which pervade the alleged leadership that psychiatry really shouldn’t tolerate as KOLs defining diagnosis and treatment in the first place; forensic psychiatry be damned as a specialty for thinking this Axis II shit should be accessed for care.

I hope you allow this to be printed, and thank you for your efforts. I get a sense Dr Dan C is starting to develop some more intestinal fortitude, maybe thanks to you and some other outspoken yet completely appropriate critics!

Skillsnotpills (never to be signed again by my former alias)

By: Gina Pera

Gina Pera — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:09:07 +0000

Dan, why you prefer a globally pejorative term like “impotence” over the more biologically accurate “erectile dysfunction”?

And why do you call it “medicalizing” when this kind of research means that more people who have these problems can find help for them — without being called “frigid,” for petesakes?

Seems awfully uncompassionate to me.

By: Gina Pera

Gina Pera — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:08:47 +0000

Dan, why do you prefer a globally pejorative term like “impotence” over the more biologically accurate “erectile dysfunction”?

And why do you call it “medicalizing” when this kind of research means that more people who have these problems can find help for them — without being called “frigid,” for petesakes?

Seems awfully uncompassionate to me.

By: Gina Pera

Gina Pera — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:45:22 +0000

Moreover, Angela, some women cannot focus well enough on the act to reach orgasm. They are too distractible, sensorily defensive (a filtering issue), etc. Women with ADHD often experience their first orgasm (not to mention enjoyable physical intimacy) after taking a stimulant medication.

They wouldn’t support your opinion that women do not need a medication. They do, and that’s their right.

By: Gianna

Gianna — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:32:50 +0000

Angela,
you’re being rather oppressive of men suggesting that small penises are a problem…a loving man interested in pleasing his partner does not need a large penis.

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:29:58 +0000

Female sexual dysfunction is generally a result of:
Insecurity
Issues from years of religious teaching that sex is dirty (the effect continues into marriage)
Over burdened with children and domestic responsibilities
An abusive and/or neglegent parnter
A partner with a small penis or poor performance
Busy or unhealthy lifestyle
Or any combination of these

Women do not need a medication, they need a break from an oppressive society. Money would be better spent resolving the issue of small or crooked penises.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:02:50 +0000

Very informative post, Doug.

So now it is not frigidity, but female sexual arousal disorder. Just as with men, it is no longer impotence, but the Pfizer-created phrase, ‘erectile dysfunction’.

Below is a link that explores the Western world’s attempts to medicalize female sexuality and stimulation.

Ultimately, the author states what I believe to be accurate- that with this particular human function. That the western world would rather medicalize such disorders and dysfunctions, instead of exploring the source, the etiology, of what may be outside of what is considered normal limits and responses.

http://www.archive.org/stream/FemaleOrgasm/WomensOrgasm_djvu.txt

By: Gianna

Gianna — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:42:38 +0000

my first therapist made out I was psychologically impaired for my lack of orgasms that started when I took an SSRI and (much later) disappeared when I stopped the SSRI…believe me she is still on my shit list…she also told me the weight gain was my fault even though I was thin before neuroleptics and again, now the weight falls off, since I stopped taking the crap.

and hell yeah women have more orgasms…ever hear of a multiple orgasm..if you count the lucky ones of us who’ve experienced those it’s possible to rack the number up in one sexual encounter!!! ha!

given I missed out on orgasm for many years due to psych meds…I still have a lot of catching up to do…

neuroleptics mess with orgasm too…though that is not as widely recognized…

will all the women on these drugs that impede orgasm get this labeling too?? iatrogenisis again being called mental illness…