Is the Human Experience a Mental Disorder?

“Prolonged Grief Disorder” is now in the DSM, but it seems pretty normal to me.

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Last month, the Washington Post reported that a new disorder will be making its debut in the latest version of the DSM, the DSM-5-TR. For the uninitiated, “the DSM” is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the go-to guide used by health…