Christmas carols for the the DSM-IV

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Christmas Carols for the DSM-IV

Schizophrenia --- Do You Hear What I Hear?

Multiple Personality Disorder --- We Three Kings Disoriented Are

Dementia --- I Think I'll be Home for Christmas

Narcissistic --- Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me

Manic --- Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Busses and Trucks and Trees and.....

Paranoid --- Santa Claus is Coming to Town to Get Me

Borderline Personality Disorder --- Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire

Personality Disorder --- You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll Tell You Why

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder --- Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Ji ngle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle,Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle

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By Melissa "not O… (not verified) on 24 Dec 2006 #permalink

Dammit, Orac, you just don't like passive-aggressive chronically depressed people with ADHD enough to give them their own song, do you? I see how it is. You just don't like them anymore.

Ooh, shiny...

I'm bipolar, and I've had problems with clinically-diagnosable paranoia in the past, and I enjoyed this post. Thanks!

By Robin Peters (not verified) on 24 Dec 2006 #permalink

Shouldn't the song for schizophrenia be "Do You Hear What I Hear in My Head?"

By Buffalo Gal (not verified) on 24 Dec 2006 #permalink

Orac -- Loved the play list! As someone diagnosed as chronically depressed, I don't have a Christmas theme song to add. ("I'm dreaming of a black Christmas" seems too lame.) Having said that, I'll just salute you with my Christmas coffee mug which reads, "Bah Humshit!"

By Catherine (not verified) on 24 Dec 2006 #permalink

Social Anxiety Disorder: It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (where can I hide?)

Post-natal Depression: What Child Is This?

By Samantha Vimes (not verified) on 24 Dec 2006 #permalink

ADHD: On the first day of Christmas, my oooh shiny!

Dementia: Over the river and through the woods, where was I going?

Broadening the category to include, well, everyone:

MADD: Grandma Got Run Over By a Drunken Reindeer

Stoner: Angels We Have Heard While High

Poly: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, and Mrs. Claus, and the Elves, and -

Shouldn't that be Disassociate Identity Disorder? Don't anger the APA or you won't be on their Christmas card list...