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ADDED: This thread is also generally about the DSM-V, the proposed new edition of the psychiatrists' handbook and compendium of 'psychological disorders', the worst of which were formerly called 'mental illnesses."
The DSM-V is apparently going to add many new diagnoses to the 300 odd ones already listed in DSM-IV.
Pure: A new disorder has surfaced and i don't think i have it, but that's apparently one of the symptoms. How about you?
American psychiatrists are debating whether to include Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder {PTED} in the new DSM-V, the official list of disorders, officially recognized by the APA, and generally converable by insurance (as equivalent to medical conditions.)
Depression, after life's traumas, is endemic to these parts, so to have PTED you have to have, also, a conviction that an injustice has happened to you. you're angry about it and you want revenge. AND, most insidious, you tend to think nothing is wrong with you.
So ask your mate and/or friends about the tell tale signs. Any body think they have it, around here? Glad to find your niche?
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Note: excessive sexual activity may well be listed as a disorder. Surely there's lots of that in these parts-- or talk of it at least. Perhaps there should also be a Delusional 'Excessive Sexual Activity' Disorder {DESAD}, where the talk far outruns the activity.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2223479/
Bitterness, Compulsive Shopping, and Internet Addiction: The diagnostic madness of DSM-V.
By Christopher Lane
Posted Friday, July 24, 2009, at 9:31 AM ET
//DSM's fourth editionThere's an awful lot of money to be made from compulsive shopping, judging by the career of Madeleine Wickham. Her Shopaholic series, written under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, is required reading for chick-lit enthusiasts, and the romantic comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic, the first of several planned big-screen adaptations, grossed more than $100 million worldwide. While the film, starring Isla Fisher, isn't terribly funny, it does make the valid point that to enjoy shopping for elegant clothes isn't a pathology. It's a style.
The American Psychiatric Association risks losing sight of that distinction by grimly—and rather inexpertly—debating whether avid shopping should be considered a sign of mental illness. The fifth edition of the association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is expected in 2012. The APA isn't just deciding the fate of shopaholics; it's also debating whether overuse of the Internet, "excessive" sexual activity, apathy, and even prolonged bitterness should be viewed, quite seriously, as brain "disorders." If you spend hours online, have sex more frequently than aging psychiatrists, and moan incessantly that the federal government can't account for all its TARP funds, take heed: You may soon be classed among the 48 million Americans the APA already considers mentally ill.
Quite how the association will decide when normal kvetching becomes a sickness—or reasonable amounts of sex become excessive—is still anyone's guess. Behind the APA's doors in Arlington, Va., the fine points of the debate are creating quite a few headaches. And they're also causing a rather public dust-up.
To linger anxiously, even bitterly, over job loss is all too human. To sigh with despair over precipitous declines in one's retirement account is also perfectly understandable. But if the APA includes post-traumatic embitterment disorder in the next edition of its diagnostic bible, it will be because a small group of mental-health professionals believes the public shouldn't dwell on such matters for too long.// {end excerpt}
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Lane provides a link to the following article:
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/06/posttraumatic_embitterment_dis.php
Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder: The Newest Mental Illness?
///Dr. Michael Linden, the German psychiatrist ... described and named Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED).
In his 2003 paper, Dr. Linden noted that PTED is similar to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), except those with PTSD suffer intense fear and anxiety after experiencing a life-threatening event. Those with PTED were hard-working and mentally healthy people until a triggering event destroyed their core values and shattered their basic beliefs.
"People feel wronged, humiliated and that some injustice has been done to them," reports Dr. Linden. Dr. Linden first noticed an increase in angry, disillusioned and embittered patients after German reunification. But what is bitterness, and how are those who supposedly suffer from PTED different from people who are justifiably angry about the current state of their lives or their country?
"Embitterment is a violation of basic beliefs," Dr. Linden explains. "It causes a very severe emotional reaction. We are always coping with negative life events. It's the reaction that varies."
According to Dr. Linden, those with PTED suffer from intrusive thoughts and memories long after the triggering event, phobicly avoid places related to the event and are pathologically consumed by an intense desire for revenge.
"The critical part is this [long] lasting and very intensive emotional embitterment, a mixture of depression and helplessness and hopelessness. It's a very nasty emotion."
But Dr. Linden found that PTED patients also suffer from a suite of other emotional complaints: 68.8% of the patients fulfilled the criteria for adjustment disorders; 52.1% for major depression; 41.7% for dysthymia; and 35.4% for generalized anxiety disorders. This overlap in symptoms is known as comorbidity and serves to confuse diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
Further, those with PTED rarely seek out psychological help./// {end excerpt}
The DSM-V is apparently going to add many new diagnoses to the 300 odd ones already listed in DSM-IV.
Pure: A new disorder has surfaced and i don't think i have it, but that's apparently one of the symptoms. How about you?
American psychiatrists are debating whether to include Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder {PTED} in the new DSM-V, the official list of disorders, officially recognized by the APA, and generally converable by insurance (as equivalent to medical conditions.)
Depression, after life's traumas, is endemic to these parts, so to have PTED you have to have, also, a conviction that an injustice has happened to you. you're angry about it and you want revenge. AND, most insidious, you tend to think nothing is wrong with you.
So ask your mate and/or friends about the tell tale signs. Any body think they have it, around here? Glad to find your niche?
==
Note: excessive sexual activity may well be listed as a disorder. Surely there's lots of that in these parts-- or talk of it at least. Perhaps there should also be a Delusional 'Excessive Sexual Activity' Disorder {DESAD}, where the talk far outruns the activity.
=====
http://www.slate.com/id/2223479/
Bitterness, Compulsive Shopping, and Internet Addiction: The diagnostic madness of DSM-V.
By Christopher Lane
Posted Friday, July 24, 2009, at 9:31 AM ET
//DSM's fourth editionThere's an awful lot of money to be made from compulsive shopping, judging by the career of Madeleine Wickham. Her Shopaholic series, written under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, is required reading for chick-lit enthusiasts, and the romantic comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic, the first of several planned big-screen adaptations, grossed more than $100 million worldwide. While the film, starring Isla Fisher, isn't terribly funny, it does make the valid point that to enjoy shopping for elegant clothes isn't a pathology. It's a style.
The American Psychiatric Association risks losing sight of that distinction by grimly—and rather inexpertly—debating whether avid shopping should be considered a sign of mental illness. The fifth edition of the association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is expected in 2012. The APA isn't just deciding the fate of shopaholics; it's also debating whether overuse of the Internet, "excessive" sexual activity, apathy, and even prolonged bitterness should be viewed, quite seriously, as brain "disorders." If you spend hours online, have sex more frequently than aging psychiatrists, and moan incessantly that the federal government can't account for all its TARP funds, take heed: You may soon be classed among the 48 million Americans the APA already considers mentally ill.
Quite how the association will decide when normal kvetching becomes a sickness—or reasonable amounts of sex become excessive—is still anyone's guess. Behind the APA's doors in Arlington, Va., the fine points of the debate are creating quite a few headaches. And they're also causing a rather public dust-up.
To linger anxiously, even bitterly, over job loss is all too human. To sigh with despair over precipitous declines in one's retirement account is also perfectly understandable. But if the APA includes post-traumatic embitterment disorder in the next edition of its diagnostic bible, it will be because a small group of mental-health professionals believes the public shouldn't dwell on such matters for too long.// {end excerpt}
===
Lane provides a link to the following article:
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/06/posttraumatic_embitterment_dis.php
Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder: The Newest Mental Illness?
///Dr. Michael Linden, the German psychiatrist ... described and named Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED).
In his 2003 paper, Dr. Linden noted that PTED is similar to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), except those with PTSD suffer intense fear and anxiety after experiencing a life-threatening event. Those with PTED were hard-working and mentally healthy people until a triggering event destroyed their core values and shattered their basic beliefs.
"People feel wronged, humiliated and that some injustice has been done to them," reports Dr. Linden. Dr. Linden first noticed an increase in angry, disillusioned and embittered patients after German reunification. But what is bitterness, and how are those who supposedly suffer from PTED different from people who are justifiably angry about the current state of their lives or their country?
"Embitterment is a violation of basic beliefs," Dr. Linden explains. "It causes a very severe emotional reaction. We are always coping with negative life events. It's the reaction that varies."
According to Dr. Linden, those with PTED suffer from intrusive thoughts and memories long after the triggering event, phobicly avoid places related to the event and are pathologically consumed by an intense desire for revenge.
"The critical part is this [long] lasting and very intensive emotional embitterment, a mixture of depression and helplessness and hopelessness. It's a very nasty emotion."
But Dr. Linden found that PTED patients also suffer from a suite of other emotional complaints: 68.8% of the patients fulfilled the criteria for adjustment disorders; 52.1% for major depression; 41.7% for dysthymia; and 35.4% for generalized anxiety disorders. This overlap in symptoms is known as comorbidity and serves to confuse diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
Further, those with PTED rarely seek out psychological help./// {end excerpt}
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