Good grief: Here's one of the authors of an earlier edition of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders saying that with the latest edition, normal behavior is defined as mental illness.
"I'm afraid that it will turn what we consider everyday normal problems of life, expectable parts of the human condition, into mental disorder and that this will often result in excessive use of medications that can be quite harmful and are very costly. The worst suggestions in DSM V will turn
normal grief into major depressive disorder,
will turn the forgetting of old age into mild neurocognitive disorder,
will turn worrying about your cancer into somatic symptom disorder,
will turn temper tantrums in kids into disruptive mood disregulation disorder,
will have attention deficit disorder be virtually ubiquitous and an easy means of getting stimulant drugs for performance enhancement and for recreation."
And the Lafayette Peach Festival provided us with the perfect peaches of the season. Thank you Palisades Orchards for coming over the mountain.
