The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, called the DSM-IV-TR, is the bible of psychologists and psychiatrists. It provides the description and the basis for diagnosing virtually all mental disorders.

The only problem, however, is that the vast majority of the mental disorders that are listed in the DSM-IV-TR are not mental disorders at all. They are emotional disorders/diseases, for which there is no cure. And non-normies are the only ones who suffer from emotional disorders.

Now, before we go any further, it is important that I simply define some terms that I' ll be using.

Drive and need: These are two terms that are too often substituted for each other in modern vocabulary. They are not synonyms. They are as different from each other as alcohol is from water. Both are something to drink. There the similarity ends. The desire to drink alcohol comes from a drive. The yearning to consume water comes from a need.

What we will be dealing with here is the first one, emotional disorders, and they don' t show up on any electronic scope. We can only determine that they exist by observing the person and determining that their actions are not normal.

Alcoholism, for example, is an emotional disorder that manifests itself in an obsession for a substance that alters the alcoholic's perception of the emotional pain that he or she is experiencing. (Also, there is a psychological filtering mechanism involved in these diseased emotions, which I'll cover later.)

Have you noticed that when psychologists name certain obsessive types, they often use a word ending with "aholic"? This includes such dysfunctions as workaholics, rageaholics, sexaholics, foodaholics, exerciseaholics and even chocaholics. Why do they do that? It' s because those other obsessions have the same basic obsessive characteristics as alcoholism.

What they don' t tell you is that they are really the same obsession that is merely manifesting itself with a different coping mechanism. The addict simply chooses different agents to alter the perception of his or her emotions and reality.

Let's say a non-normie man exposes himself to woman in public. He is arrested and psychologically examined before his court date. The diagnosis is "exibitionist." Instead of jail, the judge sentences him to a mental hospital where he is given therapy. A year later, based upon supposedly a "successful" treatment, he is placed on probation and released. He skips out and moves to another state where he promptly goes into a department store, takes some women's underwear into the changing room and proceeds to masturbate. He is discovered by the clerk and arrested. Again he is psychologically examined by the court and diagnosed as suffering from "fetishism." He is sentenced to a mental hospital for therapy. Six months later he's released on probation and skips out again. In another state he is caught rubbing up against a woman he's standing next to on a subway train. The judge has him examined and he' s diagnosed as suffering from "frotteurism." After another term in a mental ward and a period of therapy, he's released on probation. Off he goes to another state where, from his hotel room, he spies with a telescope on a young lady undressing in the adjacent building. He's spotted, arrested, examined and diagnosed as being "voyeuristic."

Naturally, since 9-11, the sharing of information between states would have probably identified this man at the second arrest. But the point remains. The court psychologist, in each state, diagnosed the subject by the manifestation. All these were merely descriptions of the different syndromes of the man. The correct diagnosis, the one they missed, would be that of an emotionally driven non-normie acting out his internal rage by various coping mechanisms like exposing himself, getting off on women's undies, getting aroused by making physical contact with a woman stranger and, then, by secretly observing a woman taking her clothes off.

In other words,

all emotional disorders produce only one type of person - the non-normie - and the DSM-IV-TR is merely separating them by the manifestation, and not identifying the type of person.

This is where psychology has broken down severely. It has become a profession built around cataloging manifestations (taxonomy), naming the new syndromes and, then, treating each one as if it were something different from the others. All syndromes simply emanate from a non-normie choosing a different coping mechanism for his or her emotional pain. It's nothing more than that, and nothing less. (See "What causes non-norminess," for more depth on that cause).

These non-normie manifestations include (but are not limited to) alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction, homosexuality, pornography obsession, obsessive-compulsive disorders (including compulsive gambling) and relationship obsession.

The way psychological diagnosis is done now would be like the police department not recognizing that each robbery call that they made was caused by criminals. Bank robberies would require only an analysis of banks. Store robberies set off only an investigation of stores. Muggings only meant studying people who had been mugged. Never once, in all these cases, did the police consider the obvious, to study the criminal mind and how it manifests itself in different types of crimes. Ridiculous you say. Not really when it comes to psychology.

Extreme non-normies number about fifteen percent of the population, yet they represent almost one-hundred percent of the severe emotional disorders. Yet no psychological professional studies the non-normie. He doesn't even exist in their manuals or classes. They study the disorder, which is a code word for the manifestation, which is then listed as a new syndrome.

This action is partially, Why psychology exacerbates non-normieness. I'll explain this further in the section titled by that name.

There are only two sources of information in this world: One's own experiences and the experiences of others. If you don't learn from the experiences of others, you are doomed to learn from your own.

Non-normies seldom learn from the experiences of others. They just learn from their own experiences and only after they have tried every way possible to make their way succeed. When alcoholics finally crawl into Alcoholics Anonymous, asking for help, it happens after they've tried every way possible to control their drinking. They beg for assistance when they have absolutely given up (surrendered), which often takes a lifetime.

In this web/blog site I am going to educate you about non-normies because, whether you realize it or not, they are affecting your life every day, and in ways that are always detrimental to you. And they are not just alcoholics. They come in many different disguises, performing many different dysfunctional behaviors, but they are all the same person. And, unless you learn to recognize them, that adverse affect will continue escalating and get worse.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident..."

Most of the information on this web/blog site is based primarily upon self-evident truth, like our Declaration of Independence was. Self-evident truth is the best kind of truth. It's like Natural Law which is also self-evident in nature and was placed on earth by God for us to live by harmoniously.

Anyone can fill a book with citations to prove almost anything they want to. After sixteen years in Al-Anon (the sister program to Alcoholics Anonymous), three years sponsoring hundreds of Alateens (the children of alcoholics), taking courses and reading dozens of books on the subject, working as a lay counselor for codependents, writing an instructional book and studying DSM III, as well as DSM IV, I could, too. But, if there is no self-evident truth to backup the statements, it will not stand alone and few will believe what was said--except, of course, for those with a pre-set agenda.

For fifteen of those sixteen years, I dissected non-normie psyches and learned to understand them to the depths of their innermost being. What you'll learn here is the result of intensive personal research, compiled in boxes of material that was reduced to a book. Then I wrote a novel about non-normies. Now, the web site. I hope my time was not wasted because I'm depending on you, the normal person, to recognize it, to understand it and to act on it (for your future and mine).

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