Grieving to be labelled mental illness

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Exactly. That's the point.

Yes-- pretty much. Or at least ACT happy. There is a very small window of socially sanctioned acceptable visible upset.

If that window doesn't work for you, there is something wrong with you.

People are becoming less and less able to tolerate anything that isn't comfortable and easy-- anything that cannot be resolved within the approximate time frame of a long movie.

I was once labeled "psychotic" because I was visibly grieving my father's death-- which was a messy, ugly issue-- SIX WEEKS after the event. SIX WEEKS.

This by a medical professional (though I note, this was the same RN who assumed that having Asperger's automatically made me a sociopath and an unfit parent). Where the hell did she get her license-- a box of CrackerJacks????

They've finally managed to pathologize EVERYTHING.

One hopes it's an effort to finally destigmatize mental illness by making sure that everyone will have one at some point in their life.

One doubts it.

O brave new world, with such people in it.

I don't understand what the big problem with this is exactly. There comes a point at which anything "normal" becomes "abnormal," and with which some people MAY actually need some serious help coping.

What on earth is wrong with that?