America's No 1 Mental Disorder Version 1.1

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Americas No.1

Mental Disorder:

IRES

Inability to Reason on Emotional

Subjects

A CrancerB.S., M.A.

DRAFT Concept ac 4/09

Copyright al crancer 06 2008
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To: ______________

I sincerely hope you get cured!

Al Crancer


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Table of Contents

Introduction 1An example 2

Characteristics of the disorder 2

Where it manifests itself most 2

Characteristics explained 3

Facts dont matter 3

Unreal perceptions about persons/things/places 4

Passion to belong. Belief trumps facts 5

Tests to see if you have the disorder 6

Try What If . . . to see if disorder is curable 7

Proper reaction to persons with this disorder 7


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IRES

An Example

Isnt my new-born beautiful? Youve heard this a dozentimes. But how many times was it actually true? Aboutnever! The reason mothers say this is because they areemotionally blind when it comes to their children,especially their new born. Usually the disorder relatingto their children lasts a lifetime and is totally incurable.

Even Charlie Mansons mother thought little Charlie was alwaysa good boy. Lets excuse the mothers of the world and explorethe characteristics of this mental disorder that affectsmillions in all walks of life.

Characteristics of the disorder

There are three major characteristics of the disorder:1. Facts dont matter, or are totally or selectively ignored. (Fact

Phobia)2. Unreal perception of persons, things, or places.

(Stereotypically Challenged)

3. Passion to be identified with a group/class/movement. (TrueBelievers)

Usually one or two of these characteristics dominate the thought process forpeople with IRES.

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Where it manifests itself most

This disorder manifests itself most often in four areas:

1. Politics 2. Family Matters

3. Environmental issues 4. Purchasing DecisionsThe following paragraphs expand on these areas.

1. PoliticsThis disorder is well known in the area of politics. How else could a KKK person

from West Virginia keep getting elected to the Senate?Ask a person why they are for a certain candidate and theywill very often give you the most absurd and twisted reasons.Even when you tell them that their candidate holds a totally

abhorrent position on something they will still support their candidate.

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Often well meaning people spread false facts. The guy thatfirst said that the world was flat really thought it to be true.His experience led him to that conclusion. The guy thatsaid Obama took the oath of office on a Koran spread a falsefact. Lots of people believed it that did not have the IRES

mental disorder.

Here are several things about facts: The best way to validate a fact is tocheck the source. Two or more sources are usually better than only one. Anexpert in a fact area is generally better than one that isnt. New facts frommany sources are usually better than old ones from the same number ofsources. I could go on and on and soon you would be totally confused aboutfacts. Thats why so many totally ignore them!

One thing for sure, leaving facts out of the equation when reasoning onemotional subjects is a sure sign of a mental problem.

Characteristic 2: Unreal Perceptions about persons, things, andplaces.

Unreal perception of about everything!

(Stereotypically Challenged)

Have you ever noticed how people with this disorderhave a fairy tale view of almost everything? Its hardto find someone with just an unreal perception aboutpersons who also doesnt have an unreal perception

about things, and sometimes places. They are hard toseparate in the twisted mind. There is no way that

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Most unreal perceptions involve generalizations and stereotypes. Moststereotypes are based on what we hear and see about things, since most of usdont have the experience to develop our own based on our experience.

Often those stereotypes are not fact based and of course they dont apply toall members of the group, regardless of the validity of the stereotype for thegroup.

Further we may have developed a stereotype based on unusually bad (or good)experience. An example of this happened years ago when my father, abusinessman, had his store robbed twice by men with beards. From that day onhe had an usually negative regard for anyone with a beard.

Unreal perceptions regarding persons : Because of stereotypical thinking, manypeople become emotionalized in their thinking when it comes to persons ofdifferent outward characteristics such as race, creed, color, national origin,sex, sexual preference, height, weight, and even the color of hair, just to namea few. The same problem is found for perceptions of persons in occupationssuch as lawyers, politicians, medical professionals, and the clergy,

And in family matters, we see unreal perception a significant problem. Personswith IRES just cant objectively assess relatives no matter what the issue.

Unreal perceptions regarding things : People become emotionalized when itcomes to how things work or dont work such as relationships, government,businesses, etc. Because of the way many perceive how things work, they think

you can just wave a wand and things will instantly get better or worse. This isespecially true in bad economic times. Many think that the government can fixthings instantly because of the way they perceive that government works.

Man made global warming is a darling of unreal thinking asis organic food. The unreal perceptions in these areas can

actually lead to physical violence!

They say that the media paints such an idealized andstereotyped picture of relationships between men and women that it results inmost relationships being considered less than acceptable.

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Unreal perceptions regarding places : Places such as countries, states,neighborhoods, restaurants, and businessestablishments evoke stereotypical and emotionalizedthinking. No one could possibly live in West Virginia andbe happy, get a good meal at

Dennys, and buy a good diamond ring at any placeother than Tiffanys.

Characteristic 3: Inordinate desire to belong! Belief trumpsfacts

(True Believers)One of the characteristics of persons with IRES is they often have an

inordinate desire to belong or be identified with agroup, movement or ideology that clouds and evenprevents clear thinking. The reason is they aresimply true believers. For these people, belieftrumps fact. If you believe that the president

walks on water, you cannot possibly believe that hecan have a wrong policy on anything.

Belonging to a group, movement, or maybe even a cult of radical/screwedthinking is quite important to most with this disorder. Most independentthinkers do not have this problem.

The worst cases of IRES are among persons in activist groups. Members ofactivists groups such as environmental, political, religious, and social are

extremely difficult to reason with about issues dear to their group.

There are numerous examples of this.Try to change the mind of a Republican (or Democrat) onissues dear to their heart. Try to change the mind of atrue believer (or non-believer) in a religious group, and tryto change the mind of an environmentalist about saving theplanet. It simply wont work.


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A member of the Rich group could never agree that something bought at Wal-Mart could ever meet their standard.

A member of the Liberal Left could never agree withreasoning that could possibly be misinterpreted as racist.

A rabid Fiscal Conservative could never agree with areasoned conclusion that supports deficit spending.

Belief trumps facts 99% of the time. When persons with facts collide withpersons of belief, usually the believers will get angry when pressed, while thepersons with facts will change the subject, knowing that further conversation isuseless.

Tests to see if you have the disorder.

Test No.1President Bush lied to us about Iraq having WMDs.VP Cheney gave a no bid multi-billion dollar contract to Halliburton to work inIraq.Test No. 2Your kid, the axe murderer, is really nice, but misunderstood.All children could do well in school if the parents got involved.The major problem with schools is that they are way underfunded.

Test No. 3Global warming is an imminent (like in the next five years) danger to mankind.Waste from nuclear power plants will eventually destroy the environment.Coal can never be made clean enough to burn in our environment.Eating non-organic food significantly increases you chances of cancer.

Test No. 4

Designer clothing is of significantly higher quality than medium priced products.Wine less than $10 a bottle is never fit to drink.

To be continued . . . .

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Play What If. . . to see if they are curable

Really sick people with this disorder will still reason wrong even when you playthe What If. . . game.

For example, What if drilling for oil in ANWR (Arctic National WildlifeRefuge) wouldnt hurt anything no how, no way, no where, would you still beagainst drilling there? Really sick puppies would still answer a resounding YES!

Another example, What if we have a video tape of your son stealing the car,would you believe it? Of course their answer would be NO!

Proper Reaction to persons with IRES

These people are beyond help and cannot be cured. Just smile at them and tryto avoid subjects that evoke their truly sick responses. Only occasionallyshould you tease them, for deep down they know they are suffering from IRES.And, of course they may become violent!

To be continued . . . .

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