Is Emotional Pain Necessary?

"Alone," photo by Tchaikovskycf

The American Psychiatric Association's DSM, a manual of mental disorders, had cautioned against including the bereaved, people who have just lost a loved one, among the clinically depressed.

The idea was that feelings of intense pain following loss of a loved one were normal, so they shouldn't be labeled as a disease. Now, the group's guidelines redefine the line between grief and depression.

Audio Embed: Morning Edition 8/2/10, Reporter: Alix Spiegel.

"The great art of life is sensation...
To feel that we exist, even in pain."
-- Lord George Gordon Byron, English Romantic poet & satirist (1788-1824)

An alternative... Just sayin'.