There are too many cars on the road, not only at peak hours but all the time, in the suburbs as well as the cities. Traffic just can't move fast enough as a result. When we get into our car, we bring with us all the stresses of the day and it is easy to take out our frustrations on other drivers. The roads belong to the young and the quick. One doesn't have to look far to suspect that money has something to do with it.
Therapists are in a bind.
In this age of managed health care, only disorders listed in the D.S.M. will be accepted by insurers for payment. It is also true that the more illnesses that can be certified, the more treatments that can be offered, the more drugs can be dispensed, and the more money there is to be made by pharmaceutical companies. See the Editorial Archive for previously published editorials.