GRIEF = MUST LISTEN TO DOCUMENTARY!!!! - On BBC Radio 4 - 31-03-13 - BEST YET PROGRAMME ON DSM-5 RISKS - "Medicalising Grief" - NEW tinyurl LINK

"We need a period of normal, healthy grieving to reconfigure our inner world gradually after loss of a loved one - 
NOT DRUGS."   - DT 2013

Inside Our Dreams

Where do people go to when they die?
Somewhere down below or in the sky?
'I can't be sure,' said a wise one, 'but it seems
They simply set up home inside our dreams.'

Jeanne Willis

LISTEN TO PROGRAMME CLICK  LINK:

http://tinyurl.com/bs7h9tz 



FOR INFORMATION ONLY NOW SO:

 FROM 7TH APRIL LISTEN TO : as commentary to this youtube slide show of relevant pictures.
  
http://youtu.be/De6Zidez-GQ

"Pathologising normal grieving is a road to collective insanity!" Dave Traxson 2013

Removing the 'bereavement exclusion' from DSM-5 completely opens the door to the mass medication of the 'normally grieving' population for
" Bereavement related depression(DSM-5 term)!"

THIS IS DANGEROUS.

PLEASE LISTEN


Medicalising Grief

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - or DSM - is a book full of lists of symptoms, strange sounding names, codes and guidelines. It's also a book that changes lives. Its champions say it is simply a system of classification, a diagnostic tool. Its critics claim it is more - it decides what is and isn't a disease and that every time a new version is published an increasing number of people are labelled mentally ill.
And for every diagnosis in the DSM, there is a corresponding medical treatment waiting in the wings.
In May 2013, the American Psychiatric Association will publish the latest edition of their DSM and it is likely to cause tension within the American psychiatric establishment.
But why is this medical-looking manual causing such controversy?
Where some say the previous DSM was responsible for pathologising childhood, critics of the new edition will medicalise grief.
Are the intense feelings most people experience after the death of a loved one misery or melancholia? That is the ongoing debate, the result of which will have an impact on millions of people and our understanding of a fundamental human reaction.
In a post-Prozac world, when normal becomes abnormal, medication generally follows. An estimated 8 to 10 million people lose a loved one every year and something like a third to a half of them suffer depressive symptoms for up to a month afterward. How much does the pharmaceutical industry stand to benefit if an extra 5 million people a year are prescribed anti-depressants?
 
Matthew Hill investigates the DSM, its decisions over what is and is not a mental illness, and the people behind it.
 
Producer: Gemma Newby
A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4.