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One in four American women take medication for a mental disorder
Daily Mail UK ^ | 11/17/11

Posted on 11/17/2011 1:19:24 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: NormsRevenge
From the Rolling Stones, vintage 1960s....

"Things are different today," I hear ev'ry mother say Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day

Doctor please, some more of these Outside the door, she took four more What a drag it is getting old

"Men just aren't the same today" I hear ev'ry mother say They just don't appreciate that you get tired They're so hard to satisfy, You can tranquilize your mind So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper And four help you through the night, help to minimize your plight

Doctor please, some more of these Outside the door, she took four more What a drag it is getting old

"Life's just much too hard today," I hear ev'ry mother say The pusuit of happiness just seems a bore And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose No more running for the shelter of a mother's little helper They just helped you on your way, through your busy dying day

61 posted on 11/17/2011 2:23:06 PM PST by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: dawn53

A woman should always reject a psych diagnosis and insist on more tests. My mother came down with ovarian cancer. Depression was a side effect of the cancer. Her doctor told her she was depressed, and treatmant was delayed over two months.

Hyperthyroidism is another illness that is commonly misdiagnosed. Doctors fail to take women seriously, and frankly, I have difficulty trustimg many of them.


62 posted on 11/17/2011 2:24:00 PM PST by Judith Anne (For rhe sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us, and on the whole world.)
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To: NEMDF; All

This issue is actually remarkably complex and sensitive and can’t really be boiled down to, “The doctors want to medicate them” or “it was the women’s rights movement” or “they can’t tough it out.”

Mental illness runs in families. There are so many varieties and variations that you can’t throw them under one umbrella. There are more medication options but some of those are blessings because, in the past, the answer might have been a lobotomy ... institutionalization or more suicide than we see now.

It’s probably that some of history’s most significant and artistically gifted people also suffered a form of mental illness.

Undiagnosed mental illness can lead to abuse of substances and that leads to more mental illness that leads to more abuse of substances ... so it’s a vicious cycle that is often not resolved until someone dies.

Most people with mental illness really don’t want the meds. Meds are costly and have side-effects. Many of the regular mental health patients at the hospital where I worked would wind up relapsing after STOPPING their medications because they didn’t like the way the medication made them feel.

It’s a shame that some people seem, these days, to remain doubtful and cavalier and even dismissive of people with mental illness. There may come a day in your life when a friend or family member needs help. There may come a time someone confides in you that they control a mental condition with medications. The correct and human response is, “It doesn’t matter to me. I’m glad that you’ve gotten help and nothing will change between us.”

And if, God forbid, there comes a day that YOU should find yourself unable to sleep for five days and suddenly agitated...or so depressed and hopeless that you plan to take your life ... I hope that you swallow your pride and talk to your doctor because mental illness is real and it kills people every day.


63 posted on 11/17/2011 2:29:32 PM PST by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Sixteen out of nine people with mental disorders don’t even know it.


64 posted on 11/17/2011 2:30:08 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: NormsRevenge

“Soma do...and soma don’t.”
— Henry Gibson

And now “some” are 20 per cent or so. When the govt is ready to take our guns away, 1 in 5 won’t have a leg to stand on. And while that may or may not be the plan, I’ll bet the planners are aware of this advantage. Any “mental health” records we rack up are going to belong to the government. Doctors will soon ask routinely about depression, suicidal thoughts, and the presence of guns in the home, if they don’t already.

If you’re messed up, I say go into denial. It’s safer!


65 posted on 11/17/2011 2:30:43 PM PST by Lady Lucky
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To: AnAmericanAbroad
One in four American women take meds for mental issues?

While the men take alcohol, "coke", meth, maryjane, etc. s/off

66 posted on 11/17/2011 2:35:08 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Winstons Julia
Look at the stigma here. Do you think people admit it?

Bingo. There's a lot of relevance I could add to the conversation, but I don't want to don my asbestos gear.

67 posted on 11/17/2011 2:37:52 PM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: ctdonath2

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68 posted on 11/17/2011 2:41:42 PM PST by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: Pharmboy
I know about bipolar. I have a family member who has been diagnosed that way, as dark as you can get.

And I think that if he had dealt with his real issues and gotten the right advice years ago he would have been off the drugs by now.

Yes, it's tough but too much enablement makes it way tougher IMO.

69 posted on 11/17/2011 2:42:21 PM PST by Siena Dreaming
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To: momtothree

Yes, neither of your examples sound crazy. And neither sound like they have some kind of disorder. Depression brought on by very trying life circumstances? Sounds like it.


70 posted on 11/17/2011 2:45:38 PM PST by Siena Dreaming
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To: NormsRevenge

Do I get to decide which of my friends is nuts, or may I merely line them up and dub every 4th one


71 posted on 11/17/2011 2:46:58 PM PST by winkadink (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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To: NEMDF

“No one I know takes meds for mental disorders”.

Doubtful! See posts about it being a date breaker. They just don’t tell.


72 posted on 11/17/2011 2:55:30 PM PST by Mountain Mary (Awaken Oh America.)
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To: Judith Anne

“Depression was a side effect of the cancer”.

Very true, Judith Anne. My Mom had a period of what she thought could have been depression. Turned out it was pancreatic cancer and yes... one of the symptoms is “feeling blue”. Sometimes depression is a symptom of something else.


73 posted on 11/17/2011 3:00:04 PM PST by momtothree
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To: Jim Noble

If she doesn’t say anything about her meds, you’d still better rummage through her medicine cabinet at the first opportunity.

Also, perusing the common disorders in the DSM so you can spot the symptoms is handy for filtering out the undiagnosed cases.


74 posted on 11/17/2011 3:02:36 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Siena Dreaming

You don’t know about bipolar unless you are a doctor ... or a healthcare worker or someone who suffers from bipolar disorder.

You certainly have your *opinion* about what you think should have happened with your family member... but you don’t really know about it.

“Yes, it’s tough...” I hope you’d never approach your family member and tell him, “Hey ... you’ve been enabled too much ... you should deal with your real issues and get off your medication...” because that’s a recipe for disaster. People don’t understand that in most cases mental illness is as life or death an issue as cancer is.


75 posted on 11/17/2011 3:02:59 PM PST by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I think I married two who didn’t ... but should have.


76 posted on 11/17/2011 3:03:07 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: All

future mental illness requiring pills:

excessive intelligence pill.

too many questions pill.

questioning der obama.

conservatism away pill

privacy concern pill.


77 posted on 11/17/2011 3:07:46 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: NormsRevenge

One thing I have found is that depressed people are incredibly self-focused.


78 posted on 11/17/2011 3:09:17 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Winstons Julia
Exactly. And to think not everyone suffering such issues neither has a "cool" disease, nor can spin it by being Famous(TM). Some people just go to pieces over the oddest mundane things at seemingly normal times; few around them have the mental wherewithal to shield themselves and others from the shrapnel. "Pull yourself together" doesn't work when the person in question is suffering from a warped concept of what "together" entails. Sorta like telling someone "stand up straight" despite an inner ear infection screwing with one's sense of where "up" is and what "straight" entails - and everyone's yelling "you know, UP! it's easy, just stand up!" And thanks to the ignorant & bigoted comments on this thread we see why nobody who knows wants to talk about it.
79 posted on 11/17/2011 3:11:13 PM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Winstons Julia
You certainly DO know something about bipolar if you have seen it up close and personal for years.

No, I have never said those things to my family member. That would be simplistic and unhelpful. However, the long-term goal is to help someone become stronger, not weaker. Our dependency culture stretches to mental health issues such as bi-polarism and entraps the individual into a downward cycle otherwise known as bondage.

80 posted on 11/17/2011 3:11:13 PM PST by Siena Dreaming
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