DSM-5

the gist of the twenty-years-in-the-making revision is this:

• kids no longer have tantrums. they have disruptive mood dysregulation disorders. if you ask me, someone had a hard day thinking up the alliteration. 
• hoarding has arrived. it has achieved exposure recognition its own tv reality program on hgtv and now has its own psychiatric label. i propose, for DSM-6 consideration: antique-ing, pawn-shopping and celebrity cook-off vicarious living.
• bereavement may well be labelled pathological if you grieve too much. the next logical step is to pathologize death, as the predisposing precipitating and perpetuating causes of grief.

the best thing about DSM-5 is that life is monoaxial again. this is good, because i never could get my head around the five axes to begin with.