[billsimms]

Is there a list of criteria for demoralization, hopefully written in the same form as the DSM4 criteria https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK36406/table/ch1.t1/ for depression? It seems this would have been the 4th paragraph in his article if he was really trying to make his case for the misuse of these. I did some searching and didn't find this. Perhaps related, I've been in contact with people labeled depressed and some seemed more frustrated, angry and bitter rather than having just given up, but those don't seem to be any better match for demoralized or depressed. Maybe a distinction is "what goes on inside your head" versus "dealing with other people and economics and you can't make them do or give you what you want."