OK, SO YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, HUH?

Some of you out there are like "Yeah, right, Carla, you're whacked. Get a real obsession. Institutions like the FDA and Big Pharma are there to protect us, to keep things like sawdust out of our food* and make drugs that will save us." 

And then I say "Read this:

According to the Journal of Medical Ethics, it has been proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type. 

In a review of the relevant literature it is shown that happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities, and probably reflects the abnormal functioning of the central nervous system. 

One possible objection to this proposal remains--that happiness is not negatively valued. However, this objection is dismissed as scientifically irrelevant."

Happiness is soon to be a classified disease! And YOU KNOW that a bevy of pills will soon follow. Good gravy, we just can't have a bunch of folks out there HAPPY. How dangerous and unfair to the unhappy. Let's numb them all down so that no one attempts to break through the doom and gloom that keeps them all under control.

Maybe the people behind these proposals are just jealous that we don't have to sit around and try to invent imaginary diseases to convince people, by preying on their fears, that they need to buy really expensive medications from self-serving mega companies. That has got to be the most unhappy job!

Live Light, xo-C.

*Yes, sawdust does make it into the food. Ever heard of "dietary fiber" or "cellulose?"