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...safer to have a broad definition so that no truly ill person slips through? Yes and no. Untreated mental illness can be serious, but misdiagnosis can also be harmful: a healthy individual might take unneeded drugs that have side effects, for instance. Also, a psychiatric diagnosis can be used against you in a divorce proceeding or disqualify you from, say, a cancer-drug trial...
Still, is there anything wrong with medicating normal sadness if you don't mind side effects? Horwitz and Wakefield take no position on this. They point out that women giving birth take painkillers even though pain is a normal part of the process. But the authors also note that "loss responses are part of our biological heritage." Nonhuman primates separated from sexual partners or peers have physiological responses that correlate with sadness, including higher levels of certain hormones. Human infants express despair to evoke sympathy from others. These sadness responses suggest sorrow is genetic and that it is useful...
MICHELLE OBAMA, wife of presidential hopeful Barack Obama, on her husband's biracial credentials, at a predominantly black Women for Obama event on Chicago's South Side...
...finding a spider in your sandal. Savoring summer is a habit tattooed from childhood, along with sunburn scars and callused heels and memories of original sins, a first beer smuggled behind the grandstand, cigarettes sneaked in the woods, curfews broken because it's too hot to sleep. The flip side of summer freedom is anarchy, the structures of school and work melted into casual Fridays and long weekends spent playing on grass now baked to beige by drought, if it has not been drowned by this summer's biblical floods...
...Sharpay is not really that bad; she just wants too much. Nobody is that bad in this world--not the popular kids, not the ditzy parents, not the overworked authority figures--and that's its charm. Everyone--band geek, hoop star, rich kid--stands side by side for their curtain call. Whether high school is in front of you or long behind, who wouldn't want to believe that story...