Published May 16, 2012
Why grieving is now a disease
The American Psychiatric Association plans to create a disease out of every human emotion. The next disease created “by consensus” will be grief. The organization is proposing to classify it in its new DSM-5 manual, which is due out next year. Why would they want to classify all the emotions as a disease? As they say, follow the money. If it’s a disease, they can find a drug for it. In this case, it would be antidepressants.
Amazingly, The Lancet, a highly respected medical journal has come out in opposition to the reclassification of this basic human emotion. Seems there is a dispute as to how long “normal” grief should last when a loved one dies (a perfectly natural occurrence).
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