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[THEORY] The coughing represents smoke inhalation
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Lithp wrote:

Wiki says this:

In the opinion of Allen Frances, chair of the DSM-IV task force, the DSM-5's new somatic symptom disorder brings with it a risk of mislabeling a sizable proportion of the population as mentally ill. "Millions of people could be mislabeled, with the burden falling disproportionately on women, because they are more likely to be casually dismissed as 'catastrophizers' when presenting with physical symptoms."

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I guess this explanation is technically possible, but it seems to me like an easy out for explaining unrelated symptoms, one which isn't foreshadowed in any way. I'm sure that having full blown seizures with this is probably pretty rare, & if they can be purely psychological in origin, probably require some kind of suggestion process.

Certainly, that either The Operator causes its own disease or that the characters are afflicted with multiple diseases are both plausible explanations. I was commenting specifically on the theory that the more severe symptoms spun off from the less severe ones.

Off topic (of MH): Yeah, DSM-V has been slammed by the authors of the previous editions as a way for big pharma to conveniently label people as "mentally ill" (if only temporarily so) and suggest they cram their faces with lots of meds to overcome that.

On topic: agreed.

Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 7:40 am

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