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Posted on 11/19/2010 11:30:58 AM PST by Neil E. Wright
“More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year,” a CNBC-hosted Reuters story informs us, citing a report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration or SAMHSA.
"Too many Americans are not getting the help they need and opportunities to prevent and intervene early are being missed," SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, J.D. declares in a press release announcing the national survey.
"The consequences for individuals, families and communities can be devastating. If left untreated mental illnesses can result in disability, substance abuse, suicides, lost productivity, and family discord. Through health care reform and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act we can help far more people get needed treatment for behavioral health problems."
The what act?
This thing. We all know how the Founders insisted on centralizing federal dominion over everything and everyone, so Congress naturally thought it must have been an oversight that they left TSA-style control over mental health services out of their delegated powers and fixed that. True, it had to be “buried within the emergency Economic Stabilization Act signed by then President Bush Oct. 3, 2008,” but circumstantial corroboration suggests a marked decrease in depression among bureaucrats, academics and administrators receiving federal grant monies to produce surveys.
Besides, it’s presented to us under the auspices of Health and Human Services, another one of those pillars of limited national government federalism. Why, there on the SAMHSA home page is a video of HHS Director Kathleen Sibelius, instructing us on bullying and tolerance of "LGBT youth," which, if you think about how she mandated adults tolerating bullying and worse when, as Governor of Kansas, she vetoed concealed carry, well, it does seem…crazy.
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America! It's about
IF left untreated America’s irrational love affair with psychiatry and psychology can lead to mental illness.
Only if they are a registered Democrat, Liberalism is a mental disorder.......
When homosexuality is no longer a mental illness, who would trust anything these idiots say ?
Of course, about 1 in 5 ARE liberals...
Rasmussen’s Presidential Tracking Poll shows Obama’s base of “Strongly Approve” has a floor of about 1 in 5. A coincidence? I think not.
Shades of the soviet union where all political enemies were declared insane and sent to mental hospitals
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration list of possible forms of mental Health issues:
1) Flying an American Flag on ones bicycle
2) Reading Sarah Palin’s autobiography
3) Having too large of a carbon footprint.
4) Watching FoxNews
5) Believing the US Constitution has merit
6) Making a profit in ones small business
7) Refusing to attend a gay rights parade
8) Using more than one sheet at a time when wiping one’s arse
9) Actually supporting the US Military
10) Having a crucifix in ones home rather than a picture of Obama.
Yes; no “Democrat” should be allowed anything sharper than a Twinkie, in their possession.
Nah, the one in five with mental illness are already unarmed, they are called liberals.
“More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year......”
LOL.... The real nut cases are those that continue to screw with and push that many folks, again and again.
There is a breaking point.......
LOVE IT
Red Dog
You are tres intelligent.
Have you ever read the Frog of Caliveras County by Mark Twain? It is hilarious. You would love it.
We’re all mad here.
Frog of Caliveras County..have not read it but I will..Thanks for the suggestion!!!
Mark Twain translates it into French then back into English from the French and it is so darn funny—the literal translations are a crack up.
Does that include the people depressed by seeing what is happening to their country? If so, the numbers should be higher.
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