Posted on 09/05/2011 3:16:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nearly half of all Americans experience mental illness at time point in life.
According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about half of all Americans will experience some form of mental health problems during their lifespan. THE CDC defined mental health problems as ranging from depression to post-traumatic stress disorder to suicide, noting that often these mental health problems are not addressed.
The new CDC report, “Mental Illness Surveillance Among Adults in the United States,” describes the extent of mental illness among U.S. adults and recommends increased efforts to monitor mental illness and anxiety disorders.
Most shocking from the report is the cost associated with treatment and loss of productivity.
There are “unacceptably high levels of mental illness in the United States,” said Ileana Arias, principal deputy director of the CDC. “Essentially, about 25 percent of adult Americans reported having a mental illness in the previous year. In addition to the high level, we were surprised by the cost associated with that — we estimated about $300 billion in 2002.”
It still remains unclear as to why there is a high rate of mental illness in the U.S. or what factors are influencing mental health.
It has been shown that mental disorders have a link to chronic illnesses, including cancer and heart disease. Additionally, psychiatric illness and other mental health issues are surrounded by stigma, which adds to the burden.
A 200 survey performed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that about 11 million people experienced serious mental health illnesses during the past year. This represents about five percent of the population. Additionally, about 84 million Americans reported having suicidal thoughts and 2.2 million Americans made plans to kill themselves, over the past year. Unfortunately, about one million American attempted suicide last year, according to the report.
These numbers may seem alarming, but more importantly, it brings attention to an overlooked issue. Mental health illnesses are increasing in the U.S. and understanding for how to help people deal with them is important. Thus more programs should be made available to help people and their families.
That's an easy one. Lack of belief in God and acceptance of emotions and thoughts that are Satanic in origin.
To quote Michael Savage, liberalism is a mental disorder. The Soviets called dissidents “sluggish schizophrenics”, unwillingness to change beliefs to what the leaders wanted.
Now they will likely classify all who are not liberals as mentally ill.
CDC fishing for funding. Ain’t the first time won’t be the last. Remember these are the folks that ran the Tuskegee syphilis trials from the 30’s to the early 70’s & the surviving medical types involved will look right in the eye & tell you with a straight face that they did nothing wrong and that the only folks involved in govt. speak were “low use segment of the population”.
40% in Europe according to Drudge.
I hope everyone realizes that with this one simple broadening of a definition, the Centers for Disease Control have just declared that half of Americans are now subject to having their second amendment rights denied. They got caught with Fast and Furious, so this is their Plan “B”.
They want to use this to take away our firearms.
And force drugs on us. And take children away from parents. And force drugs on children. And prevent home schooling. etcetcetc
“Nearly half of all Americans experience mental illness at time point in life.”
Yeah, every four years.
Of course illegal immigrants have 100% good mental health.
I believe it absolutely. No other way to explain the national irrationality : Half don't pay taxes, but they vote. They also are ignorant, but outraged. They have no notion of "rights vs responsibilities," and they believe in the money fairy.
And they elected Obama.
Q.E.D.
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