"How much suffering is too little?" OTM rerun 2-13-2010

Listen to12 minute essay which ends with: "Is too much of the wide range of human behavior being pathologized? What is a disorder and what is in the normal range of human emotion? The wide range covered in the DSM IV prompts the question not how much suffering is too much... but how much suffering is too little?"

The Art of Diagnosis: "This week, the American Psychiatric Association released proposed changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. In an update to a story that originally aired in December of last year, Brooke Gladstone looks at this powerful book and the controversies surrounding the proposed revisions."

The above audio essay I heard on the radio & that question caught my attention because after a friend read this book, she asked if maybe American children "have it too easy" and therefore have no desire to learn :