New Diseases That Keep Drug Companies Rolling

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New Diseases That Keep Drug Companies Rolling

 

Since drug companies are increasingly creating new, fictitious

diseases to increase their pharmaceutical sales, such as General

Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Mike Adams decided to pitch in and help them

out with this humorous article that classifies normal human behaviors

as diseases, including:

 

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Refrigerator Door Disease (RDD) -- standing in front of the

refrigerator with the door wide open, staring blankly

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Language Obfuscation Disorder (LOD) -- strikes mostly doctors,

and causes its victims to speak in unintelligible medi-babble

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Obsessive Hosiery Dislocation Disorder (OHDD) -- a frantic

household search for the other sock of any given sock pair

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Commerce Anxiety Disorder (CAD) -- heightened worry over whether

your credit card will be declined at the cash register

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Repetitive Remote Disorder (RDD) -- rapid channel surfing of

cable television using a remote control device

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Obsessive Wardrobe Change Disorder (OWCD) -- incessant changing

of clothing before a planned event

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Obsessive Disobedience Disorder (ODD) -- a persistent distrust

of schoolteachers, government officials, law enforcement figures, and

other authority figures (A " real " disorder currently being discussed

by those in the psychiatric community!)

*

Repetitive Pocket Searching Syndrome (RPSS) -- repeated

searching of one's own pockets following the misplacement of some

small item

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Ultraviolet Light Tanning Dependent (UVLTD) -- drives victims to

repeatedly sunbathe (another " real " disease according to some in

organized medicine!)

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Traffic Light Anticipation Disorder (TLAD) -- those who think

red lights indicate the driver should allow their vehicle to slowly

creep forward into the intersection, sort of like a green light, but

in slow motion

 

 

NewsTarget.com September 7, 2005

 

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

 

If you've enjoyed the other fun articles written by Mike Adams, the

Health Ranger, that I've posted, you'll get a kick out of this latest

one. It has quite the ring of truth to it -- two of the ridiculous

fake diseases he lists are even actually being seriously considered as

" real " !

 

I suspect I am preaching to the choir here as even many of the

contemporary comedians have skits on this fact now.

 

The sad reality is that drug companies invest a considerable amount of

their resources in inventing new diseases, which just happen to have

an expensive drug solution that will typically need to be taken for

the rest of your life. How convenient -- for the drug companies, not

you, as they create annuities that will even further increase their

already bloated bottom line.

 

The most classic example here of a successful disorder is that of

cholesterol. The drug companies have bought the " expert panelists " who

set the national guidelines that futher the unnecessary use of statin

drugs for over 99 percent of the population.

 

Always remember that the drug companies are trying to sell you

something. They're not really concerned whether you're sick, well, get

healthy, or stay ill; they just want to get you to buy their products.

And they will do whatever it takes to do that, including selling you

cures for diseases that don't even exist.

 

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