Is the United States mentally unstable?
First off, the government estimates that one in five adult Americans suffered from some sort of diagnosable mental illness in the past year, according to the 2012 Survey of Mental Health by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Young people from 18 to 25 had the highest rate, nearly at 30 percent. But about 5 percent of the U.S. population suffered from a serious mental health problem that “resulted in serious functional impairment, which substantially interfered with or limited one or more major life activities.”
Looking across the world, experts say that cross-cultural differences, social and religious stigmas, and income levels often make it difficult to compare mental health diagnoses rates from country to country. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the five developed countries with the highest rates of any kind of diagnosed mental health problems (including substance abuse) are Colombia, France, the Ukraine, New Zealand and the United States, according to a 2009 report.
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Buddahpundit on December 21, 2012 at 10:47 PM
medicate ALL the
citizenssubjects!Jeddite on December 21, 2012 at 10:49 PM
They voted for Dear Liar not once but twice, so yes. The believe that if you tax risk takers enough, everyone gets wealthy is a sign of mental illness.
rbj on December 21, 2012 at 10:55 PM
The Marxist got elected twice. There’s your answer.
bgibbs1000 on December 21, 2012 at 10:55 PM
We have too many psychologists and phony definitions of mental illness, including those defined by attorneys looking for excuses for their clients.
flataffect on December 21, 2012 at 11:05 PM
No – the once freest land is now the most stupid on Earth.
Schadenfreude on December 21, 2012 at 11:06 PM
Exclude substance abuse, going on thought process alone, and I think you’ll find that at least half of any current Western country is nuts.
OldEnglish on December 21, 2012 at 11:09 PM
So how do we know that the people telling us we’re mentally unstable aren’t mentally unstable themselves? We already know the inmates are running the American Asylum.
stukinIL4now on December 21, 2012 at 11:11 PM
When family and community become declining influences in your life, you’re bound to go nuts. Just bout 52% of them.
tommy71 on December 21, 2012 at 11:13 PM
Since 1776.
catmman on December 21, 2012 at 11:15 PM
No one is responsible for anything any more.
Rome lasted longer.
Schadenfreude on December 21, 2012 at 11:27 PM
Choom in Chief
Schadenfreude on December 21, 2012 at 11:28 PM
All I have to say about that is: Hold tight to your wallets and purses ’cause someone’s trolling for 2013 funding.
Dusty on December 22, 2012 at 12:42 AM
Well the majority of the working class is riled up into a hate against traditional values.
Mormontheman on December 22, 2012 at 2:47 AM
I dunno…
Can you be mentally unstable when you are brain dead?
LegendHasIt on December 22, 2012 at 3:32 AM
If you have to ask…
ronsfi on December 22, 2012 at 5:38 AM
When half of those who even make the effort to vote elect a classic clinical narcissist to the Presidency, twice …
The real — and unfortunately rhetorical — question is:
ShainS on December 22, 2012 at 7:46 AM
Ancient Rome’s advantage:
They didn’t have news media.
itsnotaboutme on December 22, 2012 at 8:05 AM
Duh!
A snail darter has more rights than pre-born children.
itsnotaboutme on December 22, 2012 at 8:08 AM
Sharia law is the only answer – - – COMING SOON!
Pork-Chop on December 22, 2012 at 8:35 AM
SEE ALSO: Mental Health to Decline With Climate Change
Read no further.
Little Boomer on December 22, 2012 at 8:39 AM
I was discussing with a coworker several instances of women at work who had mental problems(3 in the last year). His wife is a dentist and she told him that roughly half of her female patients are on psychological meds for conditions like depression or anxiety.
Wigglesworth on December 22, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Making us all mentally ill is on way to remove rights. Especially gun rights. If the default position is that we are all mentally ill the could require reasonable laws like all gun owners must submit to annual exams to determine their fitness to have a firearm.
The left would love this because they feel it would be one of the greatest why to control people. The sad part is that they are too stupid to see that once enacted they would also fall under the mental guidelines. Of course we would have some sort of elite class not subject that would decide what constitutes mental illness.
There are lots of scifi books and movies that depict government mandating drugging of the population in order to maintain everything from peace to the correct way of thinking. Most of them also have mandatory death for those that can’t be properly conditioned. But a little death never stopped the left. The left always needs to kill off a millions to achieve the goal.
As for this country. We are all fracked. Game over.
Frank Enstine on December 22, 2012 at 9:31 AM