Category: Odd + Funny Author : Duncan Riley Posted: May 27, 2009
Tags : bitterness, wrong
American psychiatrists are pushing to have bitterness classified as a mental illness.
The proposed “post-traumatic embitterment disorder” (we’re not making this up) is modeled after post-traumatic stress disorder, and would cover people who a “seething for revenge” after a trauma.
“They feel the world has treated them unfairly. It’s one step more complex than anger. They’re angry plus helpless,” Dr. Michael Linden told the L.A. Times. “Embitterment is a violation of basic beliefs,…It causes a very severe emotional reaction. . . . We are always coping with negative life events. It’s the reaction that varies.”
According to the report, around 1% to 2% of all Americans suffer from post-traumatic embitterment disorder.
(via Slashdot)
May 28, 2009
This really, while at first glance might sound funny to most. However, this really is something that needs to be addressed and looked at by the psychological community, and taken seriously by the public. While younger people and adults will not be as prone to it, it IS found in older individuals, specifically with individuals suffering from dangerous OCD problems and the families that intervene against their will, but for their own good. Take it seriously.