February 16, 2010
Is your desk covered in clutter? Do your colleagues often complain about the state of your workspace and wonder how you get anything done. If you find it hard to throw out things of limited or no value, you could be suffering from hoarding disorder.
'Hoarding' is just one of the new mental conditions being added to the Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (DSM) - known as the psychiatrists' bible. The DSM is a large book that lists all psychiatric disorders and describes their symptoms. If a condition is in there, it means it's considered a mental illness.
Other new conditions identified include 'cognitive tempo disorder', whose symptoms include dreaminess and sluggishness. So the next time someone at work accuses you of slacking, just tell them you are suffering from cognitive tempo disorder.
There's also 'intermittent explosive disorder', which involves occasionally becoming very angry suddenly. Guru suffers from this when reading the Daily Mail.
And people who whinge constantly may be suffering 'negativistic personality disorder'. So that's what's wrong with Sathnam Sanghera.
'Hoarding' is just one of the new mental conditions being added to the Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (DSM) - known as the psychiatrists' bible. The DSM is a large book that lists all psychiatric disorders and describes their symptoms. If a condition is in there, it means it's considered a mental illness.
Other new conditions identified include 'cognitive tempo disorder', whose symptoms include dreaminess and sluggishness. So the next time someone at work accuses you of slacking, just tell them you are suffering from cognitive tempo disorder.
There's also 'intermittent explosive disorder', which involves occasionally becoming very angry suddenly. Guru suffers from this when reading the Daily Mail.
And people who whinge constantly may be suffering 'negativistic personality disorder'. So that's what's wrong with Sathnam Sanghera.
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