Experts Recommend Classifying Bitterness As A Mental Disorder

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

[Polarik]

each new disorder brings in additional consultation/treatment dollars.

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"

[SunkenCiv]

I had this idea years ago, those [scatological reference] plagiarist b*st*rds!

[SunkenCiv]

Linden observed a surge of affected people during the German reunification.

Of course, they were all in the East German regime, so...

[pissant]

poopy?

[Lady Jag]

Proof of when someone is insane is them adamantly denying it.

[bdeaner]

What a load of crap! How much you wanna bet their research is funded by the pharmaceutical industry?

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[Let's Roll]

“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?

[Lady Jag]

No strings attached to a good citizen's armory.

[Popman]

I really love that graphic

[hinckley buzzard]

Dummies. Bitterness is a form if the victim posture, a well-known expression of anger cloaked in righteousness.

[Popman]

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.

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 victims

[SunkenCiv]

Hang on poopy, poopy hang on...

[Lady Jag]

I'm big on the Bill of Rights and stuff.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I must have OSOLAWDOCD. Obama Suck Out Loud And Will Destroy Our Country Disoder.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Right on

[Vanders9]

Which conservatives would that be?

Conservatives are not some monolithic organisation

[Conspiracy Guy]

The psychologist that wrote it is a twit. Did you agree?

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL! :)

[snarks_when_bored]

I take it that you’re a practitioner. I’m trying to figure out why your FR login name isn’t BiPolarik...(heh)...

[Polarik]

Cute!

Actually, it used to be Polemic.