Bitterness as mental illness?

[Silverback]

You know them. I know them. And, increasingly, psychiatrists know them. People who feel they have been wronged by someone and are so bitter they can barely function other than to ruminate about their circumstances.

This behavior is so common -- and so deeply destructive -- that some psychiatrists are urging it be identified as a mental illness under the name post-traumatic embitterment disorder. The behavior was discussed before an enthusiastic audience last week at a meeting of the American Psychiatric Assn. in San Francisco.

The disorder is modeled after post-traumatic stress disorder because it too is a response to a trauma that endures. People with PTSD are left fearful and anxious. Embittered people are left seething for revenge.

"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, a German psychiatrist who named the behavior.

Embittered people are typically good people who have worked hard at something important, such as a job, relationship or activity, Linden says. When something unexpectedly awful happens -- they don't get the promotion, their spouse files for divorce or they fail to make the Olympic team -- a profound sense of injustice overtakes them. Instead of dealing with the loss with the help of family and friends, they cannot let go of the feeling of being victimized. Almost immediately after the traumatic event, they become angry, pessimistic, aggressive, hopeless haters.

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[RangerX]

If they studied it long enough, they could probably explain how flatulence is a mental disorder....

[Kilted Heathen]

Jesus Christ Dan!

Don't you ever surf for fucking porn?

[Silverback]

Jesus Christ Dan!

Don't you ever surf for fucking porn?

[Kilted Heathen]

I just stuck my thumb in my eye!

[Black 6]

I am bitter against the two assholes that murdered my brother, hell I am bitter about the VA making me fight for every scrap that they are kind enough to, by their magnanimous benevolence, grace me with. Are they the bane of my existence? No, I can say that I am pretty level headed and realize that most of my shortcomings are of my own design, though I can say that a lot of the issues that are wrong with the world, deal with insatiable greed that has rooted it's self so completely in most corporations.

but that is just my .02, if you don't like it (to borrow from the Pastor) feel free to play hide and go fuck yourself.

[Flesh Thorn]

I am bitter. Does this mean that I can go on disability ?

[another damn texan]

Jesus Christ. When can I get a disability check?

[Black 6]

Thanks for the diagnosis Dr. Dan, something else I have to medicate for…. :(

What.... chronic masturbation? I think castration is the only fix for that.

[Rock Island Ranger]

Thanks for the diagnosis Dr. Dan, something else I have to medicate for…. :(

What.... chronic masturbation? I think castration is the only fix for that.

The only meds I need for that brother is Cialis..........

Prophetic bro. An old and wize Ranger CSM once said, "never begrudge a man who gets hold of himself".

[Steadfast]

I used to suffer from this a ways back. But my then current wife said, "You waste your energy and good memories (you could be dwelling on instead of) thinking of ways to get revenge". These words were a blessing to me. A great weight was lifted from my shoulders & I was able to think of happy memories like those who I had stomped on having revenge in the past. I'm really cured, now fuck off and don't bother this old fart.

[RangerX]

Is crotchity the same thing, or a different mental illness?

[CardiacKid]

People who feel they have been wronged by someone and are so bitter they can barely function other than to ruminate about their circumstances.

Someone? Not so much. Institutions is a better word... usually on Monday morning after the leader's huddle.