By Lilly Novartis <:letstalk@religiousfreedoms.org>
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/DDSdiscovered08sep03.shtml
Sept. 8, 2003

Along with Executive Dysfunction, a new disorder, Delusional Doctor Syndrome (DDS), has been identified among the medical profession. The condition mainly afflicts psychiatrists but many general practitioners are also falling victim to this debilitating disorder.

The condition is believed to be related to Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder and is characterised by ever-increasing fantasies about mental illness and demands for money and favors from drug companies. Many of those afflicted see every human condition as a dysfunction and some have arrived at the point where abnormality is now normality itself with not one human on the planet being free of mental dysfunction in one form or another.

Scientists have not been able to identify the cause of this condition but it is believed to be genetic and a chemical imbalance in the neurotransmission system in the brain. Others believe it is caused by excessive handling of drug company paycheques.

The doctors suffering from this condition have a grandiose sense of self importance, exaggerating achievements and talents and they expect to be recognised as superior without commensurate achievements. They are preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance or ideal love. They believe that they are special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with other special people who fantasise about labeling perfectly normal people with mental disorders. They have a need for excessive admiration by drug company representatives. They have a sense of entitlement and unreasonable expectations of especially favourable treatment especially large paycheques from drug companies for promoting mental illness as a product. They exploit personal relationships taking advantage of patients for their own ends.

They lack empathy with patients and are unwilling to recognise and identify with the feelings of others, preferring to label them with fictitious disorders instead. They are envious, arrogant and haughty.

In spite of these debilitating symptoms these doctors are quite often successful. While they are very poor at treating patients they often work very well inventing new diseases for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association and writing articles for Medscape and the New York Times. Others find employment in Academia where their ability to categorise every form of human behaviour as an illness attracts large research grants from the pharmaceutical industry. Those suffering from the disease are encouraged to join the self help group where they can meet similarly afflicted individuals.

The group is called The American Psychiatric Association and it meets at 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825 Arlington, VA.

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Forward courtesy of Tim Bolen <jurimed2@yahoo.com)