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.

[Red in Blue PA]

This is how they hope to get the gun owners!

[SIDENET]

Oh, F*** them.

I've got their damn bitterness, right here!

[snarks_when_bored]

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.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Exactly. It’s going to be a booming business when we have Nationalized Health Care!

[Bertha Fanation]

Medicate us or get Obama out of office.

[Vanders9]

Maybe we could get ourselves classified as having “conservative” mental disorder, caused by “prolonged exposure to loony left excesses”.

[G Larry]

If you don’t like the socialism and destruction of freedoms by this administration you’re bitter, mentally ill, and the restrictions accrue.

[pennboricua]

If you are a Democrat you have all those symptoms

[MortMan]

And yet SSAD (same sex attraction disorder) remains de-listed...

One might think there was an agenda, or something...

[Malone LaVeigh]

I guess I’ll see the rest of you bitter clingers at the gulag.

[DustyMoment]

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.

[monocle]

Would the include all those Democrats who to this date that Bush stole the 2000 election from Gore?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Experts Recommend Classifying Bitterness As A Mental Disorder

Hey, "Expert", classify this

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Who you calling bitter, honky!!!

[EAGLE7]

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.

[Red in Blue PA]

I guess I’ll see the rest of you bitter clingers at the gulag.

Look for me, I'll be wearing blue.

[Little Pig]

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.

[paulycy]

Hey, "Expert", classify this

Let's see.... that would fall under "rude" or "aggressive" or "vulgar." "Bitter" might be more like this:

[TheOldLady]

"While it affects one to two percent of the population, more incidents are recorded during times of societal changes, including economic turmoil."

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.

[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

[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?

Recommended Reading



THE LOSS OF SADNESS:
How Psychiatry Turned Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

by Allan Horwitz & Jerome Wakefield



THE MEDICALIZATION OF SOCIETY:
On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders

by Peter Conrad



SHYNESS:
How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

by Christopher Lane

[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.