Think about sex every 20 minutes a sign of disease

Last Updated on Friday, 6 August 2010 12:32 Written by putra Friday, 6 August 2010 12:32

Is it normal when a man thinks about sex every 20 minutes or so? Apparently not according to the psychiatrists. Although sex has become an integral part of everyday life, especially men, but symptoms like that is a problem and needs to be treated.

The psychiatrist also mentioned that women often get angry when menstruation have pre-menstrual dysphoric disease. But the psychiatrist had been criticized for defining the daily habits as a disease.

In the latest edition of the psychiatric manual entitled ‘The fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ or DSM 5, psychiatrists classify some daily habits of a disease. Yet the habits that the doctor is normal in everyday life.

Handbook issued by the American Psychiatric Association has designed since 1994 but is now causing controversy due to categorize some common habits that actually becomes a disease.

Apart from 20 minutes to think of sex once regarded as an illness, psychiatrists also characterize some other habits as a disease of diseases such as gambling addiction, internet and others.

But now Peter Tyrer, professor of psychiatry from Imperial College London in the middle of revising these guidelines. “If a man who can not stop thinking about sex considered sex addicts, it will be a lot of men who suffer from this disease,” Tyrer said as quoted by The Independent.

DSM guide 5 which is now prepared the revision is actually the brainchild of hundreds of experts for more than a decade (10 years). But because it led to controversy, the psychiatric expert was forced to change it.

“This time they promised to only enter a disease based on biological function. The scope of disease will be reduced and some conditions can not be categorized as a disease,” said Tyrer.

Some suspect the intervention of the pharmacy in the actual classification of diseases in the medical world into categories of mediocrity. With more and more a habit which has been classified as a disease then it might be prescribing any medication by doctors is increasing.

“If it is mentioned in the guide hypersexual disease as a new type of disease, then who will benefit from the pharmaceutical side. As we all know, if a new disease is found then the pharmaceutical companies will immediately prepare the medicine,” said Tim Kendall of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

“Virtually all of the problems associated with psychology can become a disease, only if it is already disturbing the quality of life,” he added.

Some diseases that cause controversy in the DSM-5, among others:
1. Hypersexual disorder (often think about sex)
2. Binge-eating disorder (overeating to eliminate stes and guilt)
3. Psychosis risk syndrome (stress that causes hallucinations, delusion and lack of sleep)
4. Pathological gambling (gambling addiction, love to spend money for a pleasure)
5. Minor neurocognitive disorder (have the ability of the brain which is lower than his age)

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