Sanity Squad: Diagnose Me Baby
One of just a handful of effective treatments for politics.
Run of the mill narcissism just not cutting it anymore? The Sanity Squad diagnoses a plethora of new disorders for the politically conscious lunatics among us. From frankly-regressive acute utopian disorder, and clinical paranoia with or without conspiracy theory, to Kim Jong il-omania, culture related acute psychosis, and Carter martyrism. Let this week's podcast be your guide to the future of crazy.March 6, 2007 - 4:30 pm
The Sanity Squad – Diagnose Me Baby
The Sanity Squad is composed of 4 mental health professionals, Neo-neocon, Dr. Sanity, Shrinkwrapped, and Siggy.
A Production of Pajamas Media, the Best of the Blogs, and POLITICSCENTRAL.
Folks – why was a prime number interval of 17 years chosen for the DSM-IV to DSM-V update? Most curious.
Can AlGore be said to suffer from PANDER-ing (Politician’s Acquired Narcissistic Disorder re: Energy Restriction).
John Kerry’s political career was launched because of a case of Pseudohibernianism. Chicago politicians such as Sen O’Bama also seem to manifest the trait.
Teddy Kennedy’s ICD-9 might be best reported to the Center for Medicare and Medicade Services (C’MaMa) as 291.5
PJM in LA: Why must the spoken word be delivered in such high fidelity? 31 MB? Y’all waste bandwidth. I know that in the future the price of a byte will be essentially zero, but we’re not there, yet.
Can you take Reynolds’ lead offering the option of lo-fi? I get the same info from a 12kbps stream as I do a 128kbps when it is just a conversation.
Are there many folks out there who like Sanity Squad, but say, “That file’s too big. I’ll skip it.”
Why, yes. Like me. (Sticks dweller, dial-up, won’t buy HughesNet even though the spokesbabe is hot).
I’m sure this weeks ‘Squad is as always excellent. Yeah, I’m gonna download it as I go to bed now. Hopefully it will be done by morning.
Thank you Reese, for your kind words. There is no question that millions of people have found meaning and purpose in their lives by listening to the Sanity Squad podcasts.
I am a bit concerned, however, that you think the HughesNet chick is ‘hot.’
How uncool is that?
PJM in LA,
Millions? Congratulations to you and them!
I laughed out loud listening to the new acronyms, especially FRAUD.
Your concern is appreciated, but misplaced: Miss HughesNet didn’t get that job for her ability to ask about degrees of coolness.
A category long overdue in the DMS is nihilnormaphilamania, a subset of the obsessive-compulsive disorder. Recognized as principally occuring among psychiatric professionals, the first case so labled, however, was a historian, Christopher Lasch, and resulted from the publication of his book, A Culture of Narcissism. Generally speaking, that case defined the manifestations of the disorder. The afflicted typically embrace the delusion that a given assumedly normal group or population of the society–or even the society itself–suffers from a psychopathology; frequently, for reasons as yet unknown, the psychopathology is narcissism. In advanced and irreversible stages, the nihilnormaphilamaniac exhibits a sense of acceptance that involves throwing up their hands in gestures of helplessness and an echolalia that is unique to the disorder. Every patient repeats over and over, “Only crazy is normal, ha ha, ha ha. Nothing normal for me, I think, ha ha, ha ha!” As of yet, proper case management is controversial. The only uniformly accepted treatment is hot sitz baths when the excitement reaches manic proportions, although some have reported satisfactory results from iced sitz baths.