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My wife of 45 years died six months ago this week. I have been processing her loss ever since. But the American Psychiatric Association now says that I have only six more months to heal myself, and that if I blow the deadline, I should be clinically defined as mentally diseased. It's not in my nature to use this column for personal business. But the APA's decision to add "prolonged grief" (defined as one year or more) to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders strikes me as a...
