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Americans 'snapping' by the millions ( record fear, stress, suicide)
WND ^ | Arpil 21, 2013 | David Kupelian

Posted on 04/21/2013 2:04:54 PM PDT by Perseverando

Terrorism. Chaos. Fear of the future. In the age of Obama, America is undergoing a “fundamental transformation” – that much everyone knows.

But what few seem to realize about this transformation is that the sheer stress of living in today’s America is driving tens of millions to the point of illness, depression and self-destruction. Consider the following trends:

Suicide has surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of injury death for Americans. Even more disturbing, in the world’s greatest military, more U.S. soldiers died last year by suicide than in combat;

Fully one-third of the nation’s employees suffer chronic debilitating stress, and more than half of all “millennials” (18 to 33 year olds) experience a level of stress that keeps them awake at night, including large numbers diagnosed with depression or anxiety disorder.

Shocking new research from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that one in five of all high-school-aged children in the United States has been diagnosed with ADHD, and likewise a large new study of New York City residents shows, sadly, that one in five preteens – children aged six to 12 – have been medically diagnosed with either ADHD, anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder;

New research concludes that stress renders people susceptible to serious illness, and a growing number of studies now confirm that chronic stress plays a major role in the progression of cancer, the nation’s second-biggest killer. The biggest killer of all, heart disease, which causes one in four deaths in the U.S., is also known to have a huge stress component;

Incredibly, 11 percent of all Americans aged 12 and older are currently taking SSRI antidepressants – those highly controversial, mood-altering psychiatric drugs with the FDA’s “suicidality” warning label and alarming correlation with school shooters.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alinsky; anxiety; bho44; depression; economy; fear; obamacare; obamanation; obamanomics; ssri; stress
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To: Sherman Logan

Don’t worry, raising CAFE standards for gas mileage will put things back in balance.


41 posted on 04/21/2013 2:46:40 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose?


42 posted on 04/21/2013 2:48:23 PM PDT by EBH (Warning this person is a Catholic, Tea Party Patriot, and owns a copy of Atlas Shurgged)
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To: Perseverando

Stress?

Meantime Israel has the lowest suicide rate of all the industrialized countries.

http://townhall.com/columnists/carolineglick/2013/04/20/israel-the-happy-little-country-n1573071


43 posted on 04/21/2013 2:49:25 PM PDT by cookcounty
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To: Perseverando

0bama’s constant bashing has earned him the title of “Demotivator-In-Chief”.


44 posted on 04/21/2013 2:53:57 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Shocking new research from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that one in five of all high-school-aged children in the United States has been diagnosed with ADHD, and likewise a large new study of New York City residents shows, sadly, that one in five preteens – children aged six to 12 – have been medically diagnosed with either ADHD, anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder.

Let's see. Is there more than one possible explanation for this?

Are there more children with ADHD than in the past? Or could this be a case of over-diagnosis of a fashionable new "disease?"

Or, of course, it could be both.

45 posted on 04/21/2013 2:54:02 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Tijeras_Slim

If anybody thinks these standards will be implemented as written he is totally nuts.

We will have multiple extensions and exceptions put in so we can pretend they’re being met when they’re not.


46 posted on 04/21/2013 2:55:12 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: dfwgator

FORTY FIVE YEARS ago I read about stress then. The article started with how a man missed a stage coach in the 1880s and said,

“Oh well. Another will be along next week!”

But now, the article said, “a man goes into blind rage if he misses the revolving door.”


47 posted on 04/21/2013 2:56:05 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Do we now register our pressure cookers?)
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To: dalereed

****Maybe it’s time to offer free handguns for self extermination!!****

In the 1880s cheap $2.00 guns weren’t called “Suicide Specials” for nothing.


48 posted on 04/21/2013 2:57:55 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Do we now register our pressure cookers?)
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To: Sherman Logan

My wife worked 28 years in Special Education, all I can say is follow the money.


49 posted on 04/21/2013 2:58:38 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Perseverando

**Suicide has surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of injury death for Americans.**

I don’t think this is totally a true statement. How about all the babies killed through abortion?

Yes, the fetus is a baby, the mother is not expecting any longer......the baby is there! And the baby has a soul.


50 posted on 04/21/2013 2:59:08 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: tflabo
Hang in there— the devil ALWAYS overplays his hand.

You mean he screwed up by re-electing Øbama?

51 posted on 04/21/2013 2:59:30 PM PDT by Misterioso ("There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic." - Ayn Rand)
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To: Sherman Logan

They do seem to run contrary to the laws of physics and the nature of markets... but you know how libs feel about these things.


52 posted on 04/21/2013 2:59:55 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Perseverando

The way to prevent all this suicide is to come to God!

He has three answers: Yes, No, Not yet.


53 posted on 04/21/2013 3:00:21 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Ditter
I had major stress about 30 min. ago. I opened a small can of Mandarin Oranges, picked up the can and the can hit the floor with juice and oranges going everywhere. The wrapper was still in my hand.

The can slipped out of its wrapper the minute I picked it up. I stood there wondering what just happened. Ever had that happen? Open a can, pick it up, and the can hits the floor?

My Yorkie ran over to lick up the orange juice and she thought it was grand. I thought it was the pits to get up all those oranges and juice all over the floor.

54 posted on 04/21/2013 3:01:32 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Perseverando

I would guess 80% of these problems could be solved by turning off your TV set.


55 posted on 04/21/2013 3:01:49 PM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: Perseverando

Psychoactive drugs are extremely abused. Anyone having a bad day can get them. Over 15 million people are on psychoactive drugs. The wife is a director at a mental hospital. When they opened the adolescent unit it fill and stays full of one GenWhyMe after another seeking attention and threatening suicide. The adult units are no better.

There are people that have real mental issues, from brain damage to mental illnesses. Those people are dwarfed by those without any real issue except being gutless wonders.


56 posted on 04/21/2013 3:03:20 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: Perseverando

It’s TV and information overload. People were happier when they weren’t bombarded with images of people that look smarter, better looking, richer, and happier than them. It doesn’t matter that it’s illusion. And kids have ADHD ‘cause they’re plugged into video games from birth and progrmmed into organized sports instead of playing outside.


57 posted on 04/21/2013 3:04:41 PM PDT by informavoracious (The ancient Greeks and Romans thought they were on the "right side of history.")
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To: Fzob

I think sending these people to live in Haiti for a year would do wonders to clear things up.


58 posted on 04/21/2013 3:04:45 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Fzob

Look up a vision that St. Faustina had about a black box and how it would affect peoples’ morals.


59 posted on 04/21/2013 3:05:02 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: dfwgator
I think sending these people to live in Haiti for a year would do wonders to clear things up.

Excellent therapeutic idea.

60 posted on 04/21/2013 3:07:05 PM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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