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.
You can thank the chintzy reimbursement schedule that most insurance companies provide, if at all. A lot of stress-induced mental disorders are treated as preexisting conditions, and its an uphill battle to convince them that it's not.
Personally, I don't like coming up with all kinds of new and different labels for disorders that are not quantitatively different in their effects on the patient.
On the flip side, however, I also dislike "umbrella diagnoses" that lumps every instance of childhood psychosocial dysfunction as ADHD or every instance of social anxiety as Autism.
For that matter, how many residual stress disorders are really PTSD?
It's almost like a poker game between providers and insurance companies:
"OK, I'll see your OCD and raise you one MPD!"
"Call."
"I've got a full house: three narcissists and two anal retentives."
"I've got four Queens and a Transgender. I win"
I had this idea years ago, those [scatological reference] plagiarist b*st*rds!
Linden observed a surge of affected people during the German reunification.Of course, they were all in the East German regime, so...
poopy?
“It’s a bull market in disorders: each new disorder brings in additional consultation/treatment dollars.”
That’s the least they hope to achieve - that everyone must be treated for something. Then if they can also promote even more of their pc agendas so much the better.
They can’t even cure the bi polar, psychotic etc., yet they want control over even more minds?
I really love that graphic
Gee, welcome to a thing called a life.
Everybody at one time has experienced these things in one form or another.
It used to be considered character building to experience the rough and tumble events in life, but now we are just poor pathetic
Hang on poopy, poopy hang on...
I must have OSOLAWDOCD. Obama Suck Out Loud And Will Destroy Our Country Disoder.
Right on
Which conservatives would that be?
Conservatives are not some monolithic organisation
The psychologist that wrote it is a twit. Did you agree?
LOL! :)
I take it that you’re a practitioner. I’m trying to figure out why your FR login name isn’t BiPolarik...(heh)...
Cute!
Actually, it used to be Polemic.
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