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Psychiatrists to brand grief lasting longer than two weeks a mental illness
news.com.au ^ | 22 Feb 13 | Clifford Fram

Posted on 02/23/2013 10:54:26 AM PST by Drew68

THE grieving process is in danger of being branded a medical condition if a mourner feels sad for more than two weeks and consults a GP, according to an international authority on death and dying.

At present, mourners can feel sad for two months before being told they have a mental disorder, says Professor Dale Larson. Decades ago, a diagnosis could be made after a year.

In a keynote address at an Australian Psychological Society conference in Melbourne on Saturday, Prof Larson will express his anger about the American Psychiatric Association's new diagnostic manual, DSM 5, which is used in many countries including Australia and New Zealand.

The manual, to be published in May, allows a diagnosis of depression after two weeks of grieving.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apa; depression; disorders; dsm; grief; mentaldisorder; mentalillness; mourning; mourningperiod; psychiatry; psychology; youmakebunnycry
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To: Drew68; Slings and Arrows

21 posted on 02/23/2013 11:15:17 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

There is nothing wrong with praying for the healing of others, even those who have mental illness. It ia an act of Christian love.


22 posted on 02/23/2013 11:16:50 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Drew68

The same thing will happen here. Your spouse dies, and you grieve more than two weeks then they will take your guns if you have any.

Everything in this world is now about power, money, and control.


23 posted on 02/23/2013 11:16:58 AM PST by Revel
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

If you denied (that’s taking an awful big step) the bi-polar folks and schizophrenia folks access to guns...then half of your mass shootings would likely go away.

In my home town where I grew up...we had a mass shooting from three years ago. Wife, daughter, sister of the shooter, and son of sister...all shoot by the husband. Cops do your basic investigation, and wrap it up...just a mass shooting. Not discussion over what drugs he might have been taking, but some speculation that he was taking a fair amount of pain-killers. Might have been nice to take away his access, but would probably never occur.


24 posted on 02/23/2013 11:17:41 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Drew68
but faggotry is normal... right
25 posted on 02/23/2013 11:18:31 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Drew68

Psychiatrists are how the gulag operated and the Stasi....You can make people “think” they are mentally ill. It is actually quite easy.

To allow strangers to label people on “soft” science is evil. Most psychiatry is bogus-—many psychiatrists are mentally ill and is why they go into the business. Good ones are few—and they can help....but most are “Whores of the Court” and bought and paid for by some drug company or political agenda.

It is how the APA is saying that sodomizing boys is “good” for them—like Rush brought up last month. The homosexual agenda is to make people think Good is Evil and Evil is Good and Up is Down.

It is how the APA took homosexual acts off of the mental illness list-—from political pressure—no hard science. In fact, the vile use of the body defies science and Truth. To promote the idea in “Pride” in sodomy in schools is destroying the Logic of children. They will be conditioned into insane “thinking”-—it is why liberals are mentally ill. They are not logical and can’t process the Truth.

It is insanity and will collapse culture-—to collapse Truth and destroy the concept of Laws of Nature (basis of USA). Psychiatry hides the Truth and labels—which is Marxist at its core. They destroy the concept of Virtue and Free Will-—which is necessary for Freedom and belief in God.


26 posted on 02/23/2013 11:19:26 AM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: svcw

Yes, there was a reason because you are still dealing with the worse of the grief.


27 posted on 02/23/2013 11:20:51 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Drew68
...grief lasting longer than two weeks a mental illness

Where does this put Charlie? He's had a good deal of grief since 1950, and still has it...


28 posted on 02/23/2013 11:22:30 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: martin_fierro
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29 posted on 02/23/2013 11:23:48 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Drew68

Yet another expample of just how trivial the members of our society and its leaders have become. I still think of my daughter who died as a child thirty years ago. True I have not taken to bed; but I would say I still mourn her and hope that I will see her again. Their position is NONSENSE!


30 posted on 02/23/2013 11:23:47 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Disability checks plus gun confiscation! It’s a win-win for the libs!


31 posted on 02/23/2013 11:23:47 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: Drew68
I love Psychiatrists, don't you? I mean, come on! They prescribe wonderful drugs for anyone and anybody! It is a shame that many of the drugs cause so many maniacal mass murders, but, what the hell?.....sorry, I need more Soma...I'll be resting for awhile....

FMCDH(BITS)

32 posted on 02/23/2013 11:25:07 AM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: CodeToad

One of those “born agains” that believe medical science is useless and would let your child die rather than taking antibiotics because “God wishes him ill because someone four generations back committed a sin”???

You are an idiot.


Are you that trusting of doctors and gov? My Mother was almost killed twice by govt regulations.


33 posted on 02/23/2013 11:25:30 AM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Lord save me from some conservatives, they don't understand human nature any better than liberals.)
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To: Revel

Everything in this world is now about power, money, and control.


I miss the days when it was about freedom, choice and responsibility.


34 posted on 02/23/2013 11:27:10 AM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Lord save me from some conservatives, they don't understand human nature any better than liberals.)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

James 5:13-18.


35 posted on 02/23/2013 11:27:13 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Revel

Everything in this world is now about power, money, and control.


I miss the days when it was about freedom, choice and responsibility.


36 posted on 02/23/2013 11:27:18 AM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Lord save me from some conservatives, they don't understand human nature any better than liberals.)
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To: Drew68

But if you want to lop off your wiener and call yourself Susan that’s just f**king spiffy!


37 posted on 02/23/2013 11:27:18 AM PST by servo1969
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN; old curmudgeon
“You are aware that psychiatric disorders exist and that psychiatrists are necessary to help assist those who are mentally ill?”

You are aware that this is just BS to ban people from owning guns?

38 posted on 02/23/2013 11:27:34 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Drew68

Grief is normal and we each deal with it our own way. If someone feels they need help with it, that is their way to deal. I lost my husband of 54 years and turned down my primary doctor’s offer of anti-depressents and I did just fine. I still miss him after 3 years but I am certainly not in a state of depression and do not believe that I was.
Church, family, friends and music did much to ease the loss, and relocation was also a big help. That’s what worked for me. But I know people who have been “on the couch” following the loss of a loved one. I believe it
may be various issues and not grief alone.


39 posted on 02/23/2013 11:28:48 AM PST by ruesrose (The Anchor Holds)
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To: CodeToad

Psychiatry has largely been abused as a secular replacement for faith and friends.

Classifying it as “medical science” is a bit generous, as they have poisoned far more children than they’ve helped.

Your characterization of me and the basis for my opinion is hilarious, desperate, and wrong.


40 posted on 02/23/2013 11:29:52 AM PST by G Larry
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