Posts in Grief
This is Adam Lanza’s America, and it needs to change

I used to find the openness of my youngest son’s campus charming. I loved that there were no locked doors leading to the building, no barriers impeding parents and children so they could come and go freely and play in the desert behind the school. Everyone knows everyone, so small and close-knit. It was safe …

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Connecticut Shooting, Death, Featured Articles, Main Article, GriefGuest UserAdam Lanza, Christina-Taylor Green, Connecticut Shooting, Culture of violence, gun control, mental illnessComment
Someone you loved died? There’s a pill for that.

I read with dismay an article in The Guardian that spoke about the American Psychiatric Association’s move to create a new disorder that deals with grief. The article said the APA is planning on classifying anyone who grieves longer than two weeks over the death of a loved one as depressed. They’re kidding us, right? …

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Death, Featured Articles, Grief, Main ArticleGuest UserAmerican Psychiatric Association, bereavement, Big Pharma, DSM-5, prolonged grief, The GuardianComment