26 Jan 2012

Happy Pills for the Grieving

The New York Times ran an article, Grief Could Join List of Disorders, describing how the American Psychiatric Association is revising its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and apparently grief may be added to the list of disorders. While grief is certainly not a fun thing to go through, and there is not doubt in my mind that it is a form of depression, it is also a healthy form of depression when it runs it course the way it should.