A New Epidemic

[thelioness59]

DRUGGING OF AMERICA ESPECIALLY THE POOR

[hittocerebattosai]

Wonderfully satirical!

[sunshinelizard1]

Humans can have dysfunction in the body, such as IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), which can be debilitating, and we don't treat that as a character flaw. Why is it that if the dysfunction is in the brain, people can't believe in it and mock it? I have never had IBS, but would never tell somebody to drink a cup of coffee and get over it. We have machines to detect IBS, whereas medical science for the brain hasn't progressed to that level yet, but it will someday, so quit mocking in the mean time

[MTHKITEBOARDS]

Did that guy ever hear starbucks? that stuff will pick you up, kick you in the ass, and let you take a big shit in the morning. Fuck the pills.

[nehark]

Laugh riot...in a sad sort of way. How did we ever get here?

[greghorgan]

I have just linked this to my web site for all my patients to see. Thanks Ray, much needed.

[kshensley11]

I have a CURE!!!

Drink a Redbull :D

[LazyMegalonychidae]

Haha! "Leth Argos" - nice one.

[jvbiddington]

wonderful and all with a straight face! It is a wonderful parody of the way that drug companies and cohorts from the medical profession 'use" people to make lots of dosh.

Well done!

[FromDimmuLand]

AHHHHH MORE CRAP INVENTED DISORDERS..

[StopTheRobbery2]

This is ridiculous!

We don't need drugs we need good healthy whole foods!

Pharmaceutical drugs are poison, every one of them...

[deathkitten109]

actually many of these symptoms sound like those of depression, which is obviously a very real disorder.

[achtube85]

Ray Moynihan showed a bit of this video in a conference yesterday in Barcelona. It is always good to raise people's awareness. Thanks for the video!

[zezt]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHI think Leth ARGOS has got Denial of Gotta get hands on de Money Disorder

But siggghhhhh doesn't know it!

[zezt]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[fuckthatlemursass]

motivational deficiency disorder? what a stunning discovery!

[sombrakev]

This just goes to show you that anyone could create their own disease, and become filthy rich off of it.

[DgurlSunshine]

NO SUPPORT FOR BIG PHARMA DOPE PUSHERS...WE WANT CANNABIS

[combatvetlawstudent]

YOU KNOW THERE ARE SO MANY TOXINS AND CHEMICALS AND POLLUTANTS IN OUR WORLD TODAY. so MANY THINGS THAT DO AFFECT THE BRAIN AND BODY IS SO MANY WAYS. GENETICALLY ODIFED FOODS..TOXINS GALORE SO MANY DISORDERS AND DISEASES SINCE THE WORLD HAS BECOME INDUSTRIALIZED

[JamesBong852]

haha sadly I can completely believe that this goes on all the time. Then the pills create actual illnesses that leads to more prescriptions. I wish people had an interest in learning about the world they live in. peace

[BokNice]

it's 10 in the morning, still unable to get off the bed. I am an acute sufferer of MoDeD. I guess the point is made..wanted to write a bit more, but you know my disease..so long

[brigid1318]

this isn't an actual disorder or anything. it's a satire of how drug companies create products, and then come up with "diseases" to treat the product. at first i thought it was real!

[The49ersEmpire89]

I think this video was real. I think I have it. If I dont, then I am just, perhaps, a lost cause. I graduated high school with a 1.7 GPA, first year of college I got a a 2.3 GPA, second 0.0 GPA, third 1.6 GPA. I am currently in 3 classes for 15 units and have not been going. I have been fired from every job I have always for not showing up and being late. Right now I am 21, have no freinds because I dont feel like talking to them or going out. So yea I really hope its real.

[fame2me]

my psych professor showed us in class a few days ago. I really want to believe that it's real....my roomate never gets out of bed!

[bouteluoa]

'Mowed the lawn, repaired the gutters, and paid the electricity bill....all in One Week!'

I don't think I want to try that stuff.

[kitler07]

i honestly have to say that i was about to start looking for this drug, i thought o damn i have this, i would love a simple pill that made me want to do things, then i realized it was fake.... sadly i died a lil on the inside. but a great parody none the less.

[thechurchofdave]

The Doctors name is a play on the word "Lethargus." Look it up an then maybe the joke an sarcasm will become more evident. Over all a very well played humor sketch.

[antispamdinista]

I noticed that as well. Very funny, and very on-target satire.

[zoharsis]

LMAO this parody is so funny

by the way, i have Tight Pants Syndrome! xD

[SarigHD]

lol!

[urizen123]

Right.

It's time to put an end to this once and for all -

Enter "motivational defiency hoax" (without quotes) into Google. The first result should be titled "Red faces all round after disease hoax..." - Read that.

The source of the hoax was an article posted in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) - and it's since been confirmed that the article was in fact an april fool joke.

[urizen123]

The third result on the Google search should be a link to a BMJ article (in PDF format) commenting on the april fool, and apologizing to everyone who was taken in by it.

[urizen123]

I'll be honest with you guys, this has left me feeling a little annoyed.

This hoax basically ridicules people who DO have motivational issues - implying that they're simply "lazy" - ultimately disregarding the fact that their situation may be caused by legitimate mental disorders.

[lydiavictoria]

urizen123 -- This hoax doesn't ridicule people who have motivational issues - it ridicules turning those issues into a "disease" with a label and then selling a drug for it.

[streetsavvy]

Exactly. I'm doing Pharmacy and this (in its full-length DVD) was actually part of a sociology lecture, where we saw how people simply "made up" diseases, to gain fame (for the researchers) and economic advantage (for the pharmaceutical companies). It's called medicalisation -i.e. turning everyday issues into a "medical" problem.

[Krissyw229]

Restless Leg Syndrome is very real massoon, and who are you to say it isn't?

[varoshah]

can you say: "conflict of interest"!!!!

PLEASE...

its a pathetic attempt by big pharma to lure more people into taking adverse reaction drugs,,,

[so600]

I am just wondering if Prof Leth argos went to the same medical school as that eminent Irish professor Dr A Pat Etic??

[massoonmann]

this is an even bigger joke that restless leg syndrome...

[mddah01]

Without the typos this time!

We were not referring to ADHD in this video. There are definitely many people who suffer from that condition and benefit from treatment. This parody was to show how drug companies can sometimes play on fear of illness to sell drugs. This video was not made out of ignorance but out of concern for exploitation of individuals. I am a physician with over 30 years practice and the 'actor' who plays Leth Argos in the video is a very experienced Neurologist

[ADHDRollerCoaster]

I'm not sure why this is amusing. There are, in fact, brain disorders that inhibit motivation. People who have these disorders might have the best of intentions but can't drum up the motivation to act upon them. YES, MOTIVATION IS A FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN.

We should all be glad that there are new explanations for behaviors previously described as "lazy."

This video isn't funny. It's a throwback to the dinosaur days.

[isralien23]

I suffer from this shit too...

[bobloblawspa]

Comical and amusing!

I'm even more motivated to speak out against the excesses of modern medicine and the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs than ever!

(200,000 Americans die every year as a side effect of pharmaceutical drugs; 106,000 of them are hospital inpatients. Those figures are from peer-reviewed medical journals.)

People can own their own health. Eat a healthy diet w/ lots of organic fruits and vegetables; stretch, jog, lift weights. And treat yourself and others with respect! You can!

[Talysin]

Organic foods may be a lot more harmful than non organic foods, actually.

Idiot.

[bobloblawspa]

Talysin: You're way too young to have even half a clue what you're talking about so I strongly suggest you STFU!

[bobloblawspa]

Professor Leth Argos! Hah!

[shinjeh]

im just lazy (:

[munizmoonkat]

wtf why is this under comedy?....this should be under bull shit! well maybe they should make a drug that makes a kid want to go to school and call the disease... dumb to smart kid disorder ...goodness a disease for every little single thing! CRAZY!

[menderfire9]

I totally 100% agree with you! Regulate all of mankind with a little pill for everything that the system wants us to believe we ought to be doing. First to go would be th manipulate all of mankined to become just slaves to the system that

[ADHDRollerCoaster]

Oh geez, as if mankind is the paragon of mental health?

Why do you think there are such troubles in the world -- and have been for eons? It all starts in the brain. And healing brain disorders is the only path to a brighter future. It's not NORMAL to want to engage in conflict all the time. It's not NORMAL to be lazy; the human nature is to be engaged and interested.

[dmispceg]

This is wonderful!! You did an excellent job. People will buy anything (and take anything).  We're so ignorant that we've forgotten that we all have the ability to think for ourselves. Maybe a drug can be invented for that.

[Silvercardinal7]

Is coffee and goal setting considered a treatment for "MDD"?

[ragratt]

where can i get my meth prescription too?

[aksdjhaksjdhlkasdfuo]

and paid an electricity bill all in one week!

[AEpidemicEdventure]

actuallly, its called laziness.................

[Namaps]

lol

[ozesalsa]

Hey, I need some of that stuff. Where do you get it. I'v suffered from MDS for years. Great flic.

[bamatommy]

This isn't much more ridiculous than some of the new "disorders" that today's doctors dream up. Yes, there are real disorders, but they tend to get carried away.

[DJMichaelAngelo]

hilarious - GREAT JOB!

[JayKay62969]

I know this is a joke but its not that far off. Consider ADD there is no medical test for this "disorder" yet they've convinced parents to put their children on amphetamines! Funny this "disorder" didn't exist when I was a kid. If they really wanted to help they'd tell you the truth, that most of our diseases/disorders are most likely caused by all the chemicals we eat, breath and groom ourselves with! Check out "Prescription for Disaster" here on youtube.

[Clairemont619]

and i thought america was hopped up on drugs!

[DanExMortis]

This has got to be a joke. I'm sure this was made to expose the pharmaceutical industries less than honorable ambitions [device]. By taking normal human behavior and calling it a disease, they can sell tons of placebo pills. It is pretty creepy, the industry that should care the most probably cares the least.

[erna69117]

Disease Mongering is getting a huge problem. Not only the pharmaceutical industry ist making Money on it. Certain doctors and other medicals, lawyers ... are doing good buisiness with the fears of diseases and hope for disability of people. This film shows the mechanisms we see without noticing every day on television, in papers and sponsored press conferences not only of the pharmaceutical industry. Congratulations to the film.

[soulstice99]

not funny

[terry4O]

Thsi is great, this is SO GREAT. Like unable for women to orgasm during intercourse is a dysfuntion. Thanks for driving a point home about the pharmacutical industry. Now, how can I post this to my MySpace page?

[AJ2008x]

LOL, TOP JOB!!

[mddah02]

Folks - the video is a spoof. We designed it to show how easy it is to persuade the public (and professions) that undesired human characteristics can be portrayed as treatable disorders. So when you next hear about a new disease consider who can profit and follow the money trail.

[ADHDRollerCoaster]

Then if that was your MOTIVATION, you are uninformed. You just don't get it. So, the next time you want to spoof neuroscience, why don't you bother to learn something about it. It's not about profit. It's not about the money trail. People would not take these medications -- in growing numbers-- if they did not elevate their lives. If you had an ounce of compassion, you would have learned that already. But it's so much easier to spoof, and in so doing, just broadcast your own ignorance.

[mddah01]

Thnaks for the comment. We were not referrring to ADHD in this video. There are definitely many people who suffer from that condition and benefit from treatment. This parody was to show how drug companies can sometimes play on fear of illness to seel drugs. This video was not made out of ignorance but out of concern for exploitation. I am a physyician with over 30 years practice an the 'actor' who plays Leth Argos in the video is a very experienced Neurolologist in a large teaching hospital

[ADHDRollerCoaster]

I understand that you feel you are acting out of concern for exploitation. But I still maintain you are acting out of ignorance. Experienced physicians who understand brain-based deficits should be concerned that millions of people in the US alone -- not to mention the rest of the world -- are being judged as lazy when in fact they lack brain-based motivation. And they'd not feed into the anti-psychiatry/anti-medicatio­n trend. We need education, not more dumbing-down, especially in Australia.

[zezt]

@mddah01 'ADHD' is a total fraud. Dont you see a pattern?

[hezekiahbiles]

@mddah01 ADHD is no disease. It is called disorder by the psychists. If you know what 'disorder means, you will also know that disorder attracts forced compliance, like a cop's club or a shut em up pill, not to cure. Disorder can't be cured. What an angle those psychist dealers have, eh? The terms ADHD, ADD and ODD etc are doubletalk, baffle-gab, or, as my daddy called it, bullshit.

"...No behavior or misbehavior is a disease, that is not what disease is..." [szasz]

[hezekiahbiles]

@hezekiahbiles that said, good vid, very well done. The mockery made of Psych Dope Marketing in the short film was very very well done. A truly ironic and thoughtful work! I am gonna pass it on.

[benjudd1]

Er, didnt you read their comment? the film was made by doctors including a Neurologist.

I expect that you are an 'astroturfer' (fake grass roots) whose job is to promote phamaceutical company interests, but its not washing with us who have extensive experience with disease and medications.

The pharma industry is corrupted by the money it seeks, and has no morals, and needs a serious spotlight put on it.

[oo00Epidemic00oo]

ive got it too its called LAZYNESS. JK. if its a real desease then its good that it has been discovered.

[medialitmom]

It's frightening how many people seem not to be able to recognize spoof or parody. "Dr. Leth Argos" is obviously a play on the word "lethargy."

[rye419]

LOL!

[Dat84104]

holy crap! these days you can get a pill for anything! from lack of sexual arose to weight loss. DONT DO DRUGS! :-D

[CrossX]

BMJ prints a spoof story for April Fool's Day

The BMJ published a spoof story in its 1st of April issue. The story claimed that Australian scientists had found a new disease called motivational deficiency disorder (MoDeD), whereby extreme laziness has a medical basis. It went on to claim that extreme variants of the disorder could prove fatal, because the condition reduces the motivation to breathe.  The lead scientist who identified this disease?

[TomHilliar]

(in finishing)

Thanks for nothing you pathetic worm. Maybe now Australians and the rest of the world will be even better at having a total lack of self-responsibility and self-motivation.

[apgad]

Good comment TomHilliar, but I think that might be parody...

[TomHilliar]

You are a total idiot.

Dr Miranda Burne, thanks for putting total crap out there, Dr Not-longer-respected-neurosurg­eon Professor Leth Argos; the Medical Students at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, salute you, and also believe you also suffer from M.D.D.

Medical-Social-Responsibility Deficiency Disorder.

[ADHDRollerCoaster]

Exactly right, Tom.

Is this how brain disorders are treated in Australia? Wait, I think I know the answer to that. The people I know with ADHD in Australia are stuck with 50-year-old medications like Dexedrine, which often do more harm than good.

Too bad, because these medications actually help with motivation. It's the 21st Century, folks. If you don't want to progress, go live in a cave and leave modern society behind.

[blackassassins]

Great stuff! good to see the drug companies working hard to create, then make profits out of treating, new diseases we never new we had before.

[xaqary]

you must be joking

[andrewn9158]

yes, they were, einstein

[xaqary]

sarcasm lost.  wow.