Your poll doesn’t let responders get out of answering the second question if they haven’t been diagnosed. Anyway, I scored a 27 but I’m pretty sure the fact that I have ADHD and some anxiety issues distorts my score.
(Edit: Apparently the DSM prohibits co-diagnosis of an ASD and ADHD which is really interesting. More and more I think a lot of psychological disorders are just random clusters of atypical neurological traits and not organized in any scientifically justifiable way)
Oh, and my approach to normative ethics is basically the opposite of the systematized, axiom-based approach of traditional normative ethics as exemplified by utilitarianism and strong deontology.
More and more I think a lot of psychological disorders are just random clusters of atypical neurological traits and not organized in any scientifically justifiable way
Well, that’s hardly surprising when you take into account how little is still known about the actual brain structure and functionality that determines the relevant behaviors. It’s even less surprising considering the amount of charlatanism and pseudoscience with which psychiatry has been plagued historically (think Freud or Rorschach—who are in fact still taken seriously by some in the field, though such flagrant superstitions, as far as I know, don’t make it into the DSMs and similarly prominent documents these days). Not to mention that many issues that psychiatry deals with have a pronounced ideological dimension, making the situation even more hopeless. (How can the question of what behaviors get to be branded as pathological ever be approached in an ideologically neutral way?)
Your poll doesn’t let responders get out of answering the second question if they haven’t been diagnosed. Anyway, I scored a 27 but I’m pretty sure the fact that I have ADHD and some anxiety issues distorts my score.
(Edit: Apparently the DSM prohibits co-diagnosis of an ASD and ADHD which is really interesting. More and more I think a lot of psychological disorders are just random clusters of atypical neurological traits and not organized in any scientifically justifiable way)
Oh, and my approach to normative ethics is basically the opposite of the systematized, axiom-based approach of traditional normative ethics as exemplified by utilitarianism and strong deontology.
Well, that’s hardly surprising when you take into account how little is still known about the actual brain structure and functionality that determines the relevant behaviors. It’s even less surprising considering the amount of charlatanism and pseudoscience with which psychiatry has been plagued historically (think Freud or Rorschach—who are in fact still taken seriously by some in the field, though such flagrant superstitions, as far as I know, don’t make it into the DSMs and similarly prominent documents these days). Not to mention that many issues that psychiatry deals with have a pronounced ideological dimension, making the situation even more hopeless. (How can the question of what behaviors get to be branded as pathological ever be approached in an ideologically neutral way?)
The poll is fixed, by the way. Thanks for pointing this out.