Experts Recommend Classifying Bitterness As A Mental Disorder

All Headline News ^ | June 1, 2009 | AHN Staff

[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.

[andy58-in-nh]

[KosmicKitty]

You can’t be bitter, but you can be gay

[Excellence]

I can’t tell reality from satire anymore. Boy, am I bitter about that.

[smokingfrog]

Bible readers and gun owners next.

[TheOldLady]

Well, it’s a little too close to home. It’s believable, something that would come from a petulant child like zer0.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Actually, it has been pretty firmly established that bitter people are overwhelmingly liberals.

[hometoroost]

Al Gore, poster boy for bitterness.

[Quix]

HMMMMMMMM

‘Tis a serious spiritual and emotional issue, alright.

Don’t trust the government with any of the DSM

[kabumpo]

Actually, a friend did send me a paper written by a psychologist who thought that being conservative was a mental disorder.

[omega4179]

Bitterness is a mental disorder but Homosexuality is not.

[wastedyears]

And still we sit, twiddling our thumbs.

[giotto]

I'd like to suggest a new disorder:

#375 Compulsive Disorder Classification Disorder--The obsessive urge to classify every human behavior as a mental disorder.

[Lady Jag]

[Lucky9teen]

I wonder if experts will ever declare

[Sundog]

You would not believe how many nice, normal, seeming well adjusted people I meet who want to be a social worker. They are all very sure someone beside the patient should be paying their bills.

[TheOldLady]

This is a liberal posing as a conservative. He has his finger on the trigger. He's pointing his gun at someone whom he has no intention of destroying. He hasn't had his teeth fixed. He has an odd 8-1/2 x 11" Bible. He's wearing a Hawaiian shirt, so he doesn't work.

Phony pic!

;-)

[null and void]

My ex is in real trouble!

[Madame Dufarge]

"In the Soviet Union, psychiatry was used for punitive purposes. Psychiatric hospitals were often used by the authorities as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally; as such they were considered a form of torture."

Punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union

[Travis T. OJustice]

Why not homosexuality? Or liberalism.

[potlatch]

Is the string attached to the bullet? Lol