A vale of tears; I know it is and so do you.
Are you one who wants to medicalise their grief? Do you go to your doctor for a pill when your relationship has broken down?
This is a twentieth century reaction. Our ancestors knew why they were unhappy – I love her; she doesn't love me. They wrote poems.
Formidably successful marketing campaigns are in place to sell sickness, particularly mental sickness. It is all about condition branding, redefine an existing condition, increase its importance or create a new one for an unmet market.. and give it a spectacular name: social anxiety disorder, seasonal affective disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder... Redefine all expressions of human emotion as a psychiatric problem and then you will ensure that there is always a market for your new drugs.
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