By Christopher Lane, Ph.D.
This article talks about how the American Psychaitric Association having floated the idea of
"Apathy Disorder" to see how many fish they could catch. And just to see if it would catch on. This organization has generated large amounts of publicity this week. Now their newest idea is whether or not Bitterness should worm its way into the mental disorder category.
Bitterness is "so common and so deeply destructive," writes Shari Roan at the Los Angeles Times, "that some psychiatrists are urging it be identified as a mental illness under the name post-traumatic embitterment disorder."
I would have to agree with Christopher Lane on this one, because for the rest of this article he pokes fun at the whole idea of having Bitterness jump in with all the other actually Mental Disorders. It would just be another excuse for people to jump on the disorder band wagon. It's and awful idea for them to import random ideas and pawn them off as disorders.
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