Hey, "Expert", classify this
Posted on 06/02/2009 5:06:01 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Arlington, VA (AHN) - Mental health experts are recommending the reclassification of prolonged bitterness as a mental disorder. They are proposing the inclusion of post traumatic embitterment disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for the fifth edition due for publication in 2012.
The mental ailment is described is a pathological reaction to one negative life event like conflict at work, being laid off, divorce, ailment or separation in which the victim views the event as unjust and a violation of his basic belief and values.
Dr. Michael Linden, the German psychiatrist who named the behavior, explained to CanWest News Service, "People feel wronged, humiliated and that some injustice has been done to them... The critical part is this lasting and very intensive emotional embitterment, a mixture of depression and helplessness and hopelessness.... It's a very nasty emotion."
Linden observed a surge of affected people during the German reunification. While it affects one to two percent of the population, more incidents are recorded during times of societal changes, including economic turmoil.
Aside from prolonged bitterness, other mental disorders being discussed by working groups made up of over 120 scientific researchers and clinicians who are preparing diagnostic criteria for mood, anxiety and personality disorders and psychoses are Internet addiction disorder and partner relational problem.
The manual keeps on growing as more disorders are added. When it was first printed in 1952 it has 112 disorders which had grown to 374 covering 886 pages.
The American Psychiatric Association and the National Institute of Mental Health are in the process of revising the manual. The final, approved DSM-V is expected to be out in May 2012.
This is how they hope to get the gun owners!
I've got their damn bitterness, right here!
The manual keeps on growing as more disorders are added. When it was first printed in 1952 it has 112 disorders which had grown to 374 covering 886 pages.
It's a bull market in disorders: each new disorder brings in additional consultation/treatment dollars.
Exactly. It’s going to be a booming business when we have Nationalized Health Care!
Medicate us or get Obama out of office.
Maybe we could get ourselves classified as having “conservative” mental disorder, caused by “prolonged exposure to loony left excesses”.
If you don’t like the socialism and destruction of freedoms by this administration you’re bitter, mentally ill, and the restrictions accrue.
And yet SSAD (same sex attraction disorder) remains de-listed...
One might think there was an agenda, or something...
I guess I’ll see the rest of you bitter clingers at the gulag.
More psychobabble for the kool-aid drinkers.
There was a time I wanted to study psychology but, the more I see of this kind of nonsense, the happier I am I went with my instincts and took my degree in something else.
Would the include all those Democrats who to this date that Bush stole the 2000 election from Gore?
Hey, "Expert", classify this
Sounds like part of the Human experience. Who hasn’t been bitter at some point? Heck I used to be married, the Dems/marxists are in control, the average young American is less enlightened then a firefly, we have our first Communist President, and I just passed something this morning that should have its own ‘Haz-Mat’ label on it.
If they don’t go after the American Left for 8 years of BDS resulting from the 2000 elections, then this is nothing more than a naked attempt to silence political enemies, because it most certainly will be used to go after Conservatives who aren’t happy with the current administration, including firearms restrictions. “Bitterness” had better have a clear, specific definition as well, and to be clearly separate from ordinary dissatisfaction.
On a related note, this has ugly implications for divorce cases. Given the current judicial imbalance in handling divorce cases, a lot of men stand to lose even more than they already do, s their ex-wives push to have them classed as “bitter”, and thus further segregate them from their children.
Let's see.... that would fall under "rude" or "aggressive" or "vulgar." "Bitter" might be more like this:
Two percent of the population? Riiight. You want bitterness, look at anything anybody on the left said during any Republican administration for the last forty years. If anyone has "bitterness disorder" it's the left, and I mean the mainstream left, not just the loonies. OTOH, they're all loonies to want to destroy the best country on earth.
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