Is nostalgia listed in the DSM?

On this day in 1965, Lyndon Johnson, who was the President of the United States at the time, traveled to Independence, MO to visit ex-president Harry S Truman. The two went to the Truman Library, where Lyndon signed the Medicare Act and (symbolically, at least) enrolled Harry as the first Medicare recipient. They went back to Harry's house and knocked back several rye old fashioneds to celebrate.

The library is worth a visit. Among many other tidbits about the Truman legacy, there's a series of notes and letters about his failed attempt to enact a national health system modeled on Britain's. Medicare was sort of a remnant, a surviving piece, of that effort.

There are so many songs about growing old. Most of them are kind of maudlin. I'm generally opposed to nostalgia. I think it can be unhealthy to romanticize the past. We should certainly learn from the past and sometimes celebrate the past, but let's not get stuck there in some kind of fog, OK?

This John Mellencamp tune is a fine example of misplaced nostalgia.

Mellencamp grew up near Bloomington, Indiana. In college, I was the drummer in a band that featured Mellencamp's one-time keyboardist. We played some dives in Linton, Loogootee, Bedford, and Oolitic. We were not very good. See what I mean about nostalgia?