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Posttraumatic embitterment disorder (PTED) is a proposed disorder modeled after posttraumatic stress disorder. Some psychiatrists are proposing this as a mental disorder because they believe there are people who have become so bitter they can barely function. PTED patients do not fit the formal criteria for PTSD and can be clinically distinguished from it, prompting the description of a new and separate disorder. German psychiatrist Michael Linden, who has conducted research on the proposed disorder, describes its effect on people: "They feel the world has treated them unfairly. It's one step more complex than anger. They're angry plus helpless." He says that people with the disorder are almost treatment resistant and that; "These people usually don't come to treatment because 'the world has to change, not me. He believes that 1 to 2 percent of people are affected at any given time, and explains that, although sufferers of the disorder tend to have a desire for vengeance, "...Revenge is not a treatment."〔 PTED so far has no official status and is not listed in the DSM-IV-TR or ICD-10-CM. ==History== Non-medical discussions of paralyzing embitterment is a long running theme in literature. A paragraph from Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics describes PTED. PTED was named by Linden in his seminal (2003) paper and modeled after PTSD since many of his patients did not fit the PTSD label. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Posttraumatic embitterment disorder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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