1. From today's paper (Times Colonist):

Bitterness a legitimate illness: psychiatrists

Bitterness should be classified an official brain illness, according to psychiatrists who say people who experience prolonged bitterness over a breakup or conflict at work are "ill" and need treatment.

They are proposing that "post traumatic embitterment disorder" be included in the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, psychiatry's official catalogue of mental dysfunction.

Now in its fourth edition, DSM is undergoing its first major revision since 1994. DSM-V is due to be published in 2012, and other possible new contenders for inclusion include Internet addiction, apathy disorder, compulsive buying disorder, compulsive pathological overeating, "premenstrual dysphoric disorder" and "partner relational problem."

(I remember at one point some were trying to get anger into the manual.)

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