Posted on 01/28/2014 9:45:25 PM PST by Olog-hai
Mental disorder is the leading diagnostic group for disabled people receiving federal disability insurance benefits, with 35.5 percent of all disabled beneficiaries having such a disorder, according to the latest Annual Statistical Report on the Social Security Disability Insurance Program.
The report provides a statistical profile of the 10,088,739 disabled beneficiaries who were receiving federal disability benefits as of December 2012.
Those 10,088,739 disabled beneficiaries were almost double the 5,044,388 disabled beneficiaries who had been in the program as of December 1995.
In Washington, D.C., according to the report, 43.2 percent of disabled beneficiaries as of December 2012 had been diagnosed with a mental disorder. In Massachusettswhich led the nation in this metric50.1 percent of disabled beneficiaries had been diagnosed with a mental disorder.
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Interesting that the most frequent diagnoses are also the ones hardest to disprove with real facts...
The facility should be on a nice island in the South Pacific.
Most of the "mentally illness" you find on the streets these days is a combination of stupidity, laziness, and drug abuse.
These are the same types of people European explores found living in mud huts, practicing voodoo and eating other people. If they didn't receive handouts and government checks this is exactly the state they would regress to.
Sure there are genuinely ill people that should be institutionalized and cared for but there are a lot of other people that just don't have the capacity to function in an advanced First World civilization.
Why wouldn't it? It's both behavoral and physical deficiencies catching up with them.
People are being tutored in how to get disability payments and mental claims are the easiest to fake.
Either way, it is demonic what is going on and WE are paying for it.
I certainly acknowledge that there are people whose mental illness renders them disabled. Some have been in my own family. I was just offering an explanation for the spike in numbers, and it looks like a lot of you agree. And so much PTSD in people who probably aren’t combat veterans seems curious to me.
On a related note John Carlson interviewed a couple on his show yesterday who are working to change the involuntary commitment laws in WA. Their adult son was killed by police during one of his manic episodes. In this area since the 90s we have had case after case of untreated mental patients commiting crimes, sometimes multiple murders. Time after time parents and families express their frustration with the laws. According to this couple, AZ has easier commitment laws. I realize that there are no easy answers and people are justifiably worried about abuses. But the body count is getting high, not to mention other quality of life issues—many homeless on Seattles streets are actually mentally ill and there are untold costs having this many people sleeping, panhandling, defecating, etc. in parks and bus shelters. This is what I mean when I say that the mental health system is BROKEN.
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