Oh the Poor Baby!  Get Him Some Medical Attention!

I just wrote an absolutely brilliant post, only to have it get forever lost in cyberspace.  I will try to recreate it, but I fear my magnum opus has been lost to the ages.

I am absolutely disgusted by the idea that all our bad, selfish, destructive behaviors are some sort of disorder or disease.  I am increasingly annoyed by the dignifying of all our egocentric tantrums by calling them such things as Oppositional Defiant Disorder.  There are those who disagree with me, and I'll grant you I might feel differently if I had to deal with this sort of behavior in my offspring on a daily basis.

That having been said, I feel that this new approach to our me-first!-me!-me!-me! attitude is something that was cooked up by psychiatrists at a secret meeting.

Psychiatrist 1:  Well, it happened again.  I have another new pre-teen patient who has been throwing daily tantrums, bullying other children, and even threatening his teachers.  I'm at my wits' end.

Psychiatrist 2:  I hear you, bro.  And with society like it is today, we can't just tell the parents to take the kids out behind the woodshed and dish out a little rough justice.

Psych 1:  Yeah.  Worse yet, we can't just give the parents a prescription for tranquilizers so that they can feel a little more mellow until the kids reach 18 and move out of the house.  (Shakes head and sighs.)

Psych 2:  Okay..how about this?  It sounds a little crazy, but hear me out.  What if we call this brattiness a medical disorder?  We can have names like....oh, I don't know... how about Opppositional Defiant Disorder?

Psych 1:  Oh, come on.  Nobody's going to take that kind of thing seriously.  A medical disorder?  These kids just need a good, swift kick in the bee-hind.

Psych 2:  No, no listen.  I think I'm onto something.  If we call it a medical disorder or a disease, this throws the whole thing back to the MD's.  It gets the monkey off our backs.  And...are you ready for this?  If it's a disease, we can suggest prescribing drugs for it, right?  That way, mom and dad can just slip junior a little pill every day to make him chill out until he graduates high school and becomes a burden on society.

Psych 1:  My man, that sounds like a plan!  (High fives are exchanged at this point.)

So everybody wins, right?  I think it's things like this that have made America the great nation it is today.

Today's post is sponsored by this kid who flips out when he gets an old truck for his sixteenth birthday, instead of the slick vehicle he was hoping for. 

For your viewing edification, I offer you not one but two enthralling videos, featuring the aforementioned teen.  The first is the video of the birthday truck.  http://www.mpgh.net/forum/73-videos_sharing/64087-wow_meltdown_kid_birthday_surprise.html The second is the same guy who freaked out while playing World of Warcraft, which resulted in his parents cancelling his account.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUkWuEjcUUc  The poor guy.  He obviously needs lots of medical attention and some understanding.  It's not his fault.

In closing, here is a little cartoon.  I give it to you because I care.