Re: Cheating Destiny (book excerpt)
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Posted by klausen on 17:49:30 2006/07/11
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Re: Cheating Destiny (book excerpt) posted by Jillybean
The 'Bible' of the American Psychiatric Association, the Fourth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), says that 'normal' or 'healthy' depression is when a person feels temporarily sad because of some misfortune in his or her life. 'Clinical,' or 'abnormal,' or 'neurotic' depression is when a person feels sad all the time. But these two categories leave out the very important intermediate possibility that someone's life may be constantly filled with depressing events, such as an incurable illness with new manifestations every day, so that they are 'normally' reacting to the renewed misfortunes happening every day! You have to be psychotic not to be sad when something sad happens! The term 'schizophrenia' does not mean 'split personality,' as people often think, but was coined by Manfred Bleuler in 1911 to mean 'inconsistent drives,' as when a person knows something bad is going on in his life, but insists on regarding it as something neutral or good.
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