Hysteria once preoccupied medical science and scientist alike, pondering on effective remedies for patients symptoms, together with restless leg syndrome, social anxiety disorder, and celebrity worship syndrome, today it seems like new illnesses are appearing or being invented on a weekly basis, and the common pattern emerging seems to coincide with the creating of remedies for simple quirk and natural human behaviours.
Dr Tim Kendall Director of the National Collaboration Centre for Mental Health, suggests we are inherently in danger of increasingly classifying people to combat behavioural problems, US style lifting of advertising ban on TV can see behest drug companies promoting Viagra and referring to the “erectile hardness scale” creation of fear and anxiety within the general public. What we need to remember is that this is certainly not a new phenomenon, as if one was to look at the American Psychiatric Association ‘bible’, one would see almost every piece of human behaviour can be classified as being in some way aberrant.
