You are so sweet. I hope the same for you. I love you unconditionally.
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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They are messed up because of the manipulation of psychologists who have these off the wall ideas about self-esteem, etc.
When I had my son 18 yrs. ago I bought the books and read the magazines because I thought I would be so enlightened. Well I ended up throwing them all away and resorted to my Mom for advice and raised my kids like my parents raised me.
Are they perfect? Heck no, but they don’t need meds, they have great peer relationships, they are respectful and they have great manners.
Spot on. Its always a schadenfreude moment when the Precious Snowflakes get peed on by the real world. For instance one youngster wanted to use her annual leave to delay her start time on Monday mornings... every Monday. This was to allow her extra time to recover from her weekend partying. She was stunned, STUNNED, when her supervisor said “No. That’s ridiculous!” She angsted and raged and sulked all week about how no one appreciates how responsible she is. Amazing. Every week one of the Gen Ys pulls a similar stunt. It’s vey entertaining.
Personality disorders are my definition resistent to treatment and fixed traits unlikely to change over time. No point in spending money trying to fix them.
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You are so sweet. I hope the same for you. I love you unconditionally.
“Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes with everyday life...”
Someday they might become parents and will understand/appreciate what four out of five parents have gone through.
What's the big deal?
Thank you for sharing.
Call it splitting hairs, but it seems to me that there is a wolrd of difference between having anti-social *tendencies* and being in the throes of a full-blown personality disorder.
We all exhibit less dersirable traits. But, to push it to the point of labeling them with a personality disorder seems a bit far-fetched.
Gen Y, in my experience, has trouble in the workplace because they have no concept of rules or authority. This is not the same think, I think, as a personality disorder that believes he/she is above the rules. In the first instance, there is a lack of comprehension that such a thing as rules exist. In the second, the person is fully aware there are rules, they simply refuse to abide by them.
But, then again, maybe I am just splitting hairs on a topic I don’t kow enough about to do so.
Thanks for letting me share.
I’d take this with a big grain of salt.
Personality disorders are what is known as Axis II in the DSM. Axis I disorders are your depression, axiety, phobias, eating disorders, etc, etc... They are pretty good with diagnosing and treating Axis I stuff. But Axis II is still a very new area. And they just are not very good with personality disorders yet.
Obama voters still in the news I see.
Great. Another new psycho-babble buzz word that will be driven into the ground until the drug companies have everyone convinced through “study” results that the remaining kids that don’t have ADHD, need medicine to treat their “personality disorder”.
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