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Oppositional-Defiant Disorder: Behavioral features
Common features of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) include excessive, often persistent anger, frequent temper tantrums or angry outbursts, as well as disregard for authority. Children and adolescents with ODD often purposely annoy others, blame others for their own mistakes, and are easily disrupted. Parents often observe more rigid and irritable behaviors than in siblings.[2] In addition, these young people may appear resentful of others, and when someone does something they don't like they prefer revenge over more sensitive solutions.[3]
For a child or adolescent to qualify for a diagnosis of ODD, these behaviors must cause considerable distress for the family and/or interfere significantly with academic or social functioning. Interference might take the form of preventing the child or adolescent from learning at school or making friends, or placing him or her in harmful situations. These behaviors must also persist for at least six months. Effects of ODD can be greatly amplified by other disorders in comorbidity such as ADHD.[4] Other common comorbid disorders include depression and substance use disorders.[5]
Signs and symptoms
Some signs and symptoms that must be perpetuated for longer than 6 months and must be considered beyond normal child behavior to fit the diagnosis are:[6][7]
The child must exhibit 4 out of the 8 signs and symptoms listed below in order to meet the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic threshold for oppositional defiant disorder[8]
- Actively refuses to comply with majority's requests or consensus-supported rules[9]
- Performs actions deliberately to annoy others[9]
- Angry and resentful of others[7]
- Argues often[7]
- Blames others for his or her own mistakes[10]
- Often loses temper[10]
- Touchy or easily annoyed[10]
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The Party of Nope
Alan: Among the pathologically oppositional, revenge is the impulsive reaction to perceived insults - or even garden-variety cultural differences.
Everyone must be identical to The True Believer.
Consequent imposition of universally-shared identity is the only ground on which "true believers" can be confident that their own brittle identity has worth.
To insure that true believers' fragile sense-of-self is reflected in -- and confirmed by -- everyone else, ethnic cleansing and genocide are justified as God's will.
Their rationale is no longer that "the devil made me do it," but "God made me do it."
"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image
when it turns out God hates all the same people you do."
Tom Weston S. J.
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
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