{"id":8097,"date":"2013-12-15T20:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T10:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8097"},"modified":"2024-07-04T06:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T20:36:07","slug":"nonconformity-and-freethinking-now-considered-mental-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8097","title":{"rendered":"Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Considered Mental Illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/non-conformity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8098\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/non-conformity-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"non-conformity\" width=\"807\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/non-conformity-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/non-conformity-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/non-conformity.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called \u201coppositional defiant disorder\u201d or ODD. Defined as an \u201congoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,\u201d symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theunboundedspirit.com\/nonconformity-and-freethinking-now-considered-mental-illnesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/theunboundedspirit.com\/nonconformity-and-freethinking-now-considered-mental-illnesses\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called \u201coppositional defiant disorder\u201d or ODD. Defined as an \u201congoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,\u201d symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8097\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Considered Mental Illnesses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53715,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions\/53715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}