SOCI 2030 Lecture Notes - Fluoxetine, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Compulsive Buying Disorder

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14 Jan 2013
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Public and private organization they find it profitable to come up w/ new mental disorders. Pharmaceutical companies can come up w/ drugs to treat these disorders. War vets started returning home in 1971 and had problems adjusting. Young men and some women in the war. Recession hit at so no jobs for them. By 1974 many were finding the stress too much to take and many began to believe that their problems were psychiatric and that they had a specific disorder. Launched a national campaign and directed it at the apa. Asked them to make it a mental disorder but eventually apa caved in and mad ptsd a mental disorder. Some scattered evidence that it was a disorder but it only became a disorder b/c of the political pressure. If you are injured usually the government will pick up the tab. The vietnam vets saw that they too could be eligible for compensation from the government.

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