The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has issued the results of a national survey that found more than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness in 2009. Of those, 11 million had a serious mental illness.
The study found the highest rate of mental illness among young adults aged 18 to 25 at 30 percent. An increase in the numbers are believed to reflect a rise in depression among the unemployed.
Notably, the survey shows that 6.1 million adults last year had a mental health illness that was not being treated.
Source: CNBC
Heres a case for you:
N.J. woman accuses 2 police officers of forcible arrest during safety check
Published: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 6:10 PM Updated: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 6:14 PM
Joe Moszczynski/The Star-Ledger
ANDOVER TOWNSHIP — A Sussex County woman has filed a lawsuit against two Andover Township police officers, claiming they forcibly subdued and arrested her while they were checking to see if she was safe.
The arrest of Linda Leenstra, 49, came after the officers already knew she was safe at home with her husband and preparing for bed, according to the 15-page lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court in Newark.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/sussex_county_woman_accuses_2.html
Of that twenty percent, ninety percent managed to land employment in Congress despite their sociopathic and narcissistic disorders.
Buddah Those in Congress have the best health care available to treat their disorders if they wish too. Others are not so fortunate.
Big Pharma anyone?
(And what Buddha said.)
…and Swarthmore mom’s comment is right on the mark, as well.
“Of that twenty percent, ninety percent managed to land employment in Congress despite their sociopathic and narcissistic disorders.”
how would you know that? are you a psychiatrist who has spoken to one and all and clinically evaluated each?
Or are you just making it up as you go along?
One way to reduce unemployment is for the USMS to arrest and kill all citizens with mental illness. They could do that with a judge’s order like the Nazis did by calling it 5005 civil contempt. The CDC has already ruled that that is OK because a judicial order is an authorized law enforcement function so there is legal precedent and I am not planning to appeal it to the S.C. because the S.C. doesn’t read PRO SE briefs so it is a waste of time and money. So there is no case law barrier to detention and extermination of the mentally ill. That will improve the economy by reducing unemployment.
Ute,
Do you have a sense of humor or did it leave when the rest of your senses abandoned ship?
That is, of course, a rhetorical question.
“Obama won the age group of 18- to 29-year-olds”.
“Young people absolutely made the difference in this election,” said Erika Johansson, a project coordinator for Declare Yourself. “Without them, he would have lost the election.”
http://thetartan.org/2008/11/10/news/elections
my apologies, hehehehe. Very funny stuff, do you perform at the Venetian Room in Vegas?
Ute,
you need additional evidence to say congress is full of sociopaths?
I suggest you wear aluminum foil, as should the other mentally ill, so we know who you are. Something tells me this crazy bunch should be close to Fox News’s demographic.
And Russell Tice is mentally ill, according to some. Ever hear of “political psychiatry?” It’s alive and thriving in the good, ol’ USA.
Martha Mitchell was dubbed “delusional” when she spoke up about widespread corruption in the Nixon White House… We know how that turned out… Aluminum foil for her, too?
I’m not disputing the fact that there are people with mental illnesses (sociopathy and narcissism aside), but it’s all too easy to discredit and defame by labeling someone “mentally ill.”
It’s happening more than most realize.
Ute,
Jokes from the satchel … try the Venetian Poker Room, it’s more fun
I wondered who the 20% of Americans were that approved of Congress, this really does explain a lot.
What the report doesn’t mention is that 12 out of every 5 people have Multiple Personality Disorder.
Hey “Ute”,
Are you sayin’ you are young a la Cousin Vinny? I am a yoot too once upon a time or two.
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Mister DNA,
yep yep yep yep yep nope nope nope nope nope nope nope yope yope yo yo ma.
We all do don’t luv ya meeessssttttteeeeerrrrrr.
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Furthermore,
A world that is destroying itself or a nation that is destroying itself can only do so through experts thoroughly trained in the art, nay science, of ignorance.
just sayin’
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http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2010/11/peak-of-sanity.html
Of all of the things I have lost in my life, I miss my mind the most.
Same here, Bud.
anon nurse…
Thank God, I am not the only one. LOL
Yes, in federal courts they ignored the rules of evidence and tried to get me to agree to discuss my personality and character and to defend against charges that I was “obsessed”. A federal P.D. who I never met wanted to plead me guilty of being a vexatious litigant because I was “obsessed”. All that I wanted was my rights listed in statutes. But if you don’t roll over to take in in the ____ then the perps say you are mentally ill.
If it were to be such that the most significant clinical sign of disastrously severe mental illness was a total incapacity of a mentally ill person to recognize said person’s mental illness, what would be a way to accurately diagnose mental illness, and who would be capable of doing an accurate diagnosis?
Is mental illness a conundrum of self-reference which would be paradoxical were it not mental illness?
Exists anything which can result in greater suffering than the suffering resulting from mental illness?
Methinks, perchance, no.
What of the person whose only delusion is believing, in gravely delusional error, that she/he is delusional?
For a person who has in fact a delusional self-image, projection of self-image can out the fact?
I make no claim for myself to be not delusional, neither do I claim to be delusional, for I would skeptically suspect either claim of being itself a delusion.
Does the study have a breakdown by party affiliation ?
Well, in 2003 I saw a number of something like 37,800 practicing psychiatrists. So my question is, does that 20% mentally ill figure also apply to the practitioners of the trade?
And might a mentally ill psychiatrist not be pretty darn astute at diagnosing maladies of which he or she is only too familiar?
And then of course, there are those of us who are likely considered sane on the Gaussian curve of daily behavior, who do the damndest things with no predicators whatsoever. Consider the psychiatrist in Bakersfield recently who elected to access a man-friend via a chimney chute that turned out to be – sadly – considerably narrower than she was.
In what section might we find her singular fatal behavior, in our doge-eared DSM-IV?
Mayhaps enough of us are falling through the cracks, that assigning a percentage is a tad less than window dressing.
Well, if doing the same thing over and over with the same result but expecting a different result is actually an indication of mental illness the at least 40 Senators are ill because we’ve given the 2%’s a gigantic tax break for 10 years with no good effect and yet it’s being proposed again as crucial to the country’s economic well-being. All the voters out there that have embraced ‘trickle-down’ economics for the last 40 years an not seen any positive effect seem kinda’ delusional too.
Put a label on them and you can do anything to them….
Mind what mind….
if doing the same thing over and over with the same result but expecting a different result is actually an indication of mental illness…..
works in sales, in picking up lovers
in law I read about a guy who sued for defamation, won and was paid. Then the defendant republished the defamation. So the plaintiff sued him 13 more times and it was finally ruled that defamation in a new time frame is a new cause of action.
Pardon me?:
When Parkour makes you go from Baritone to Falsetto:
And regarding the kids… and, obviously, the next generation of adults, refer to the following interview:
Dr. Gabor Maté on ADHD, Bullying and the Destruction of American Childhood
November 24, 2010
“He argues that these responses are treating surface symptoms as causes while ignoring deeper roots. Dr. Maté says children are in fact reacting to the broader collapse of the nurturing conditions needed for their healthy development.” (Democracy Now!)
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/24/dr_gabor_mat_on_adhd_bullying
Dr. Gabor Mate:
“There are about half a million kids in this country receiving heavy duty anti-psychotic medications. Medications such as those are usually given to adult schizophrenics to regulate their hallucinations. But in this case, children are getting it to control their behavior. So what we have is a massive social experiment of the chemical control of kids’ behavior with no idea of the long-term consequences of these heavy duty anti-psychotics on kids.”
Worth listening to or reading, IMO…