So, in case you haven't heard...

On Monday at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric
Association, it was widely postulated that yet another disorder needed
to be added to the ever expanding lexicon of the DSM (Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.)

Post Traumatic Bitterness Disorder

It was likened as being something similar to PTSD - Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder. Similar in that it presented after some traumatic
event and proceeded to consume an individual with inescapable
bitterness. It has been said that at this meeting it was widely agreed
that this malady of Post Traumatic Bitterness Disorder should be
entered into the DSM so that treatment would ensue.

Possible treatment alternatives may be:

Spank them - are these the people who were reared by parents who never
told them no? A firm but kind swat to the behind may just help them
set their priorities back in order.

Give them jobs and health insurance - are these some of the millions of
Americans who have lost the way to their own personal American Dream -
suddenly finding themselves sliding down the slippery slope of a
putrefying economy?

Would someone see if Alice has any more of her little pills? Maybe we
can make them smaller, really, really small - like Lilliputian small -
and we just won't have to listen to them anymore.

What I'm really wondering is, why does it seem that we have lost our
way and become so focused on naming what has already presented rather
than trying to figure out how we can all live together. Do you realize
that in most cities people walk down the street afraid to look each
other in the eye? Human beings are collective creatures by nature
don't you think?

Perhaps what we are trying to name is really just symptomatic of the
disconnection that engenders so many human relationships today.

Maybe we really need to look at the cause before we approve the medical
billing code for the "cure."