Posted on 11/18/2010 11:15:18 AM PST by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO (Reuters) More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, U.S. government researchers reported on Thursday.
Young adults aged 18 to 25 had the highest level of mental illness at 30 percent, while those aged 50 and older had the lowest, with 13.7 percent, said the report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration or SAMHSA.
The rate, slightly higher than last year's 19.5 percent figure, reflected increasing depression, especially among the unemployed, SAMHSA, part of the National Institutes of Health, said.
"Too many Americans are not getting the help they need and opportunities to prevent and intervene early are being missed," Pamela Hyde, SAMHSA's administrator, said in a statement.
"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."
The 2009 mental health survey hints at the impact of record unemployment rates, which last year hit a 25-year high as struggling employers slashed jobs to cope with a weak economy.
For many, lost employment meant loss of health insurance, leaving many of the nation's mentally ill unable to get treatment.
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There was a time when Medicaid didn’t pay providers in Texas if they used a diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder as it was classified as a behavior problem, not mental illness. Don’t know if that is still true or not but I do know that a lot of mental health providers switched to something else - like Adjustment Disorder. It is a racket.
Apparently, one of those seriously mentally ill Americans wrote this article.
“They should have been happy with what they had.”
True, but many entered that field because they were a bit off themselves.
If only they would ‘off’ themselves. Well, I can hope, can’t I?
This is a hugely stressful society the international elitists have socially, economically and politically engineered. It’s only going to get worse.
Totally agree. It’s all so horrible it has to be some part of some crazy sick warped group agenda. And the antidepressants, antipsychotics, and other psych drugs misrepresented as being able to “cure” or “help” mental illness can actually by themselves, cause permanent mental and physical disability, suicide or homicides. The sealed medical records of a number of school shooters would prove the damage these drugs can cause. There is a video called Dead Wrong that shows what happened when a teenager who had had bad dreams was given “samples” of a common psych drug.
Liberalism is a mental disorder . : )
Sing it from the rooftops Muchacho uhh,, man!!
I’m deep in infested Bay Area ,, Lofgren, Honda, Stark, local district reps. Fortney Pete ? prime candidate
Not particularly surprising when we are told gay is okay, not knowing if you are a boy or a girl is normal, being an illegal alien gives you the same rights as a citizen, being taxed at a rate of half of everything you make is reasonable, we spontaneously emerged from a pool of primordial goo with no evidence, we caused the earth to warm and we have caused all the worlds ills despite being the most generous nation on earth... and we are surprised that 20% of us are mentally ill? Really?
Women voters tend to lean Democrat -- I think we've found an explanation.
That’s crazy.
Gee, I wonder how much lobbying the mental health professionals and Big Pharma did for this study?
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