is shyness a mental illness?

lol soon it will have dsmiv criteroin

Alot of people suffer from shyness, it's not a mental disorder but it can be a symptom of some like social anxiety disorder and such.

I don't see how this is related to anti-psych so i'm going to move it to living with mental illness.

yeah but the point is the psychiatrists movement is soon going to make it into a disorder. pretty soon everything will be disorder and we will all be mentally ill and recieve government benefits and be locked in mental institutions

Pat,

I just saw a post by you titled "###$" and the contents were simply "###$ ###$ ###$" or some other such crap. If you can't control your language better then I will be forced to ban you until you learn some control.

patm3300 wrote:yeah but the point is the psychiatrists movement is soon going to make it into a disorder. pretty soon everything will be disorder and we will all be mentally ill and recieve government benefits and be locked in mental institutions

You're right. The medicalising and diveristy and discontent is just a psychophramacology marketing ploy. It means more clients and more money for psychophramacological industry.

The new DSM will have many new entries such as shyness but never forget biopsychiatry is a fraud and has no medical science to back it up.

Don't look to your government to regulate this fraud by demanding psychiatrists prove any DSM disorder has a medical cause. The Bush family sits on the board of Eli Lilly and stands to become very wealthy with every new addition to the DSM via sales of Eli Lilly drugs.

I understand where you are coming from and you were right to post it in the anti-psych forum.

There actually is a disorder called "Love shyness" Its almost exsclusively found in heterosexual males.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_shy

But the guy who came up with this has....shakey credibility

Another part of the human condition is turned into disease by fraud.

Guest, you seem very angry, is it a disorder or are you just pissy all the time?

Karma.
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if shyness was a mental illness, i'd be locked up for certain!! 'cuz i'm not only shy, but scared of crowds, etc.

element wrote:if shyness was a mental illness, i'd be locked up for certain!! 'cuz i'm not only shy, but scared of crowds, etc.

Social anxiety hon, that's what it is... scared of crowds...