Of Course LAT Would Have to Cover 'Embitterment Disorder'

The whole idea of the newspaper industry covering the story about psychiatrists discussing re-classifying bitterness as a mental illness is our happy thought of the day.

LAT’s Shari Roan’s piece includes the sentence:

Revenge is not a treatment.

Pshaw.

Embittered people are typically good people who have worked hard at something important, such as a job, relationship or activity, Linden says. When something unexpectedly awful happens — they don’t get the promotion, their spouse files for divorce or they fail to make the Olympic team — a profound sense of injustice overtakes them.

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