Posted on 12/02/2008 2:52:59 AM PST by Baladas
CHICAGO (AP) - Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes with everyday life, and even more abuse alcohol or drugs, researchers reported Monday in the most extensive study of its kind.
The disorders include problems such as obsessive or compulsive tendencies and anti-social behavior that can sometimes lead to violence. The study also found that fewer than 25 percent of college-aged Americans with mental problems get treatment.
One expert said personality disorders may be overdiagnosed. But others said the results were not surprising since previous, less rigorous evidence has suggested mental problems are common on college campuses and elsewhere.
Experts praised the study's scope - face-to-face interviews about numerous disorders with more than 5,000 young people ages 19 to 25 - and said it spotlights a problem college administrators need to address.
Study co-author Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute called the widespread lack of treatment particularly worrisome. He said it should alert not only "students and parents, but also deans and people who run college mental health services about the need to extend access to treatment."
Counting substance abuse, the study found that nearly half of young people surveyed have some sort of psychiatric condition, including students and non-students.
Personality disorders were the second most common problem behind drug or alcohol abuse as a single category. The disorders include obsessive, anti-social and paranoid behaviors that are not mere quirks but actually interfere with ordinary functioning.
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I suspect they are overdiagnosed as well - there's something wrong about anybody if you look hard enough, but this does partially explain how the(for now) "president-elect" managed to win.
So what do they want? Better living through chemicals?
Counting paranoid, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders, there’s a large part of your Obama electorate.
Nope. They want more control of the drones through chemicals. Here's the money quote:
Study co-author Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute called the widespread lack of treatment particularly worrisome. He said it should alert not only "students and parents, but also deans and people who run college mental health services about the need to extend access to treatment."While stories like these will increase as we get closer to Chairman Hussein's swearing in to gin up support for nationalized healthcare (the same way we got more and more of them to support Her Heinous's failed healthcare grab in 1993), I'll bet this one is really about following on to the ritalin doping that keeps the drones semi-docile in elementary and high school.
it’s my understanding that most personality disorders aren’t amenable to pharmaceutical treatment, and some aren’t very treatable at all—the best that can be done is teach coping skills. I agree If you dig deep enough you’ll find something wrong with everybody. I also agree that the 20% number seems high for a “debilitating” level of disability.
Where I work, the ratio is closer to 1:2. I’m not paranoid, the really are trying to get me. So leave me alone.
After SHTF and restoration, it's obvious that the franchise will need to be restricted to normal people.
The fruit of 12+ years in NEA happyland. OBE, outcome-based education. In case anybody wonders what the intended outcome is supposed to be... outcome-based education = outcome-based elections.
Actually, it’s all part of an internationally televised show in which you are starring but are unaware of.
Just another part of the plan to make any and all aberrant behavior a psychological disorder that must be treated by psychologists.
Back in the old days, we had another name for that one...
It was called being and @SSHOLE!
4.8978 of 5 so called journalists have personality and honesty disorders! I, too, can make up facts. Or, are they made up?
Study co-author Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute called the widespread lack of treatment particularly worrisome. He said it should alert not only "students and parents, but also deans and people who run college mental health services about the need to extend access to treatment."
The researchers aren't in a university, they are in an insane asylum and can't see past the gates:
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1 in 5 young adults has personality disorder.
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And 5 in 5 of the old adults do.
Especially college students.
Four out of one hundred Americans are completely without conscience or remorse and fit the description of "Antisocial Personality Disorder."
They wreak unbelievable havoc in the lives of those they touch.
Their brain scans do not resemble normal brains.
They are unusually gifted liars and their lives are reduced to an endless attempt to dominate and control the targets of their manipulation.
Most do not kill but it is not a moral barrier that prevents them from turning into murderers. It is only the concern for getting caught that slows them.
There is no "cure" for sociopaths because they see nothing wrong with themselves. They view those who have a conscience and can feel emotion as the weak and dysfunctional.
They are "pod people" who appear like the rest of us but are like the cyborgs portrayed in The Terminator.
If you drove through the area I lived as a child during the summer you would have seen the children of that area outside playing ball, riding bikes,mowing lawns etc. Outside activites with other human beings. Now you can drive through a large home area and not see a single child outside doing anything.
Isolation, lack of (direct)interaction with other human beings. Is it any suprises that these young adults are having problems?
If you think differently, you are wrong and must be treated. The pills are good, they will make you just like everyone else. Would the world not be great if everyone was the same?
Leonardo da Vinci would have been classed as mentally ill if psychiatry had existed then.
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