Bitterness To Be Classified As a Mental Illness

Some psychiatrists are trying to get excessive bitterness identified as a mental illness named post-traumatic embitterment disorder. Of course this has some people who live perfect little lives, and always get what they want, questioning the new classification. The so called "disorder" is modeled after post-traumatic stress disorder because it too is a response to a trauma that endures. "They feel the world has treated them unfairly. It's one step more complex than anger. They're angry plus helpless," says Dr. Michael Linden, the psychiatrist who put a name to how the world works.

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Solution to the problem

[Nickodeemus]

Grow up. Life is harsh and you need to grow up and understand that things aren't always going to go your way. Learn to deal with it like an adult and move on.

Hmm, on that note..

[rotide]

I play a few too many video games than I probably should, when will that be a diagnosable mental illness?

How about my girlfriend who likes TV and Facebook a bit more than the average person? I mean, that's gotta be a new mental illness. Probably easily treatable with a $300 bottle of pills from the big pharma's right?

Re:Cynicism

[Jurily]

Bipolar?

You just named another imaginary one. Do bipolars have a positive and negative magnetic field?

explotation and all that

[speedtux]

This would explain a lot of the "delusions of inadequacy" side of my personality. I work so hard at some stuff that I'm just incapable of, like having a real career where I'm not exploited.

Look around you in the world; do you seriously think everybody but you lives perfect, happy, well-adjusted lives? Paris Hilton? Cher? Donald Trump? Ted Haggard? Bill Gates? President Obama?

Everybody has problems. Everybody gets exploited by someone sometimes. Everybody has hangups and issues. Everybody has disappointments, in people, in things, and in themselves. Everybody is paranoid about something sometimes. It's part of the human condition. Get used to it and deal with it positively.

Re:Cynicism

[Jurily]

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, manic depressive disorder or bipolar affective disorder,

Anything you have four different equivalent scientific terms for is not real. Sorry.

Re:I resemble that remark

[cthulu_mt]

I'm so lucky to be in a company now that respects my talents, and allows me time to deal with my mental illnesses; but not everybody is that lucky.

I imagine they could save a bunch of money by hiring someone with a spine.

Well FUCK THEM

[alexborges]

And the horse they rode in on.

What the fuck are this guys talking about...

Next thing you know, the next Charlie Bukowski will end up in a mental prision or something

Re:American Liberals

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh? And it wasn't a hellhole before the invasion?

The US liberation made it a real hellhole. Death estimates are in the range 100k - 1500k.

The only way to get rid of a dictatorship is the people getting rid of it.