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Classification of medical and psychological disorders is done for medical billing purposes.Everyone is, and always has been, affected by all of their life experiences, as well as by social mores.Currently, it seems to be socially acceptable to talk publicly about our bodies and our medical maladies, and to talk about, analyze, and diagnose ourselves and others, with many different mental, psychological and mood disorders.Years ago, when I was a child, it wasn't socially acceptable to discuss aches and pains and symptoms with others. People were expected to interact pleasantly with others in public, and not burden others with their personal physical woes.While a certain level of public discussion about things which used to only be discussed in private has had a beneficial effect, in increasing the general level of knowledge about health and in knowing when to consult a physician; it has also had the negative side effect of encouraging people to view every behavior from the perspective of it being some sort of problem requiring professional intervention and/or medication.Before the general public felt it necessary to label certain people as “narcissistic”, there were simply self centered jerks, and if people had bad experiences with them, it was considered an experience they should learn from, not a “syndrome” with some lifelong negative effect, nor something requiring professional treatment to “process” or get over.I honestly believe that the medicalization of life experiences undermines self esteem, which is built over time by simply dealing with what life brings and moving on.We've created helicopter parents who so thoroughly overprotect and insulate their children from the normal challenges of life, that they can't deal with not being invited to every birthday party, including those being held for children who aren't even their friends.Name calling has become bullying, and children develop the unrealistic expectation that everyone should treat them with the same level of care and understanding as their parents do, when this is not how the world actually operates.As a retired nurse, I think I'm qualified to state that there is a huge difference between suffering from an acute mental or phychological disorder that interferes with being able to function, and the other 98% of bull sxxx psychobabble disorders that don't require medical intervention or treatment. I'm talking about normal life experiences, and I really wish the pendulum would shift back somewhat away from labelling every single variation in human behavior as being some sort of medical condition.There's some truth to the saying 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. I'm not saying that severe trauma occurring during childhood, or even later in life cannot be or cause diagnosable and possibly treatable mental illness. I'm saying that I believe it's often more helpful not to buy into the belief that every little negative experience in life needs to be dwelled upon.Does every child who ever received physical punishment need to believe their parents were or are abusive? I don't think so.Does every woman who was ever spoken to or touched inappropriately by a man need to publicly punish or humiliate every man who treated her disrespectfully? (I'm not talking about rape). I don't think so.Every self centered person is not a narcissist. Anyone who ever hurts your feelings isn't necessarily suffering from some mental or personality or character disorder.Overall, I feel the tendency to now classify behavior that in the past was considered to be in violation of the rules of etiquette, ie rude and crude behavior; into medical disorders, has had the negative effect of absolving people of feeling they are responsible for their own behavior. I have heard six year old children make the excuse that they couldn't help doing something, that they clearly knew was wrong, because they have ADHD or ADD.In the past, when people behaved poorly nobody felt curtailed from labelling them as uneducated, ill-mannered, rude or inconsiderate. Today, if these politically incorrect terms are used to describe behavior, the person exhibiting the behavior is given immunity for the behavior because they suffer from blah blah blah medical condition; while the victim of the bad behavior is publicly criticized for lacking empathy for the offender; it's just not politically correct to state that behavior is ignorant- even when it is. We're all expected to be so sensitive about offending others that time is wasted in the workplace teaching adults behavior they should have learned as children.Personally I don't see the harm in grammar school children teasing someone with poor hygiene. I actually believe it's less cruel than allowing them to be subjected to prolonged social ostracizing due to the fact that they smell bad. Who can really say for sure, that it's more or less hurtful to hear this from a peer than from a teacher or an employer?So as to the specific 'disorder' referred to in the question, I think stress exists, and that the healthiest response to stress is to put it behind you and move on. Calling it a 'disorder' leads to the false belief that it is a permanent state or condition, and it's neither.