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Title: Epidemic? Half of US teens ‘meet criteria for mental disorder’
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Raw Story
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/ ... meet-criteria-mental-disorder/
Published: Oct 14, 2010
Author: Agence France-Presse
Post Date: 2010-10-14 23:54:57 by abraxas
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Comments: 8
Epidemic? Half of US teens ‘meet criteria for mental disorder’ By Agence France-Presse Thursday, October 14th, 2010 -- 8:41 pm WASHINGTON — Around half of US teens meet the criteria for a mental disorder and nearly one in four report having a mood, behavior or anxiety disorder that interferes with daily life, American researchers say. Fifty-one percent of boys and 49 percent of girls aged 13-19 have a mood, behavior, anxiety or substance use disorder, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In 22.2 percent of teens, the disorder was so severe it impaired their daily activities and caused great distress, says the study led by Kathleen Merikangas of the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH). "The prevalence of severe emotional and behavior disorders is even higher than the most frequent major physical conditions in adolescence, including asthma or diabetes," the study says. Mental problems do not get the same attention from public health authorities even though they cost US families around a quarter of a trillion dollars a year, according to the study. Around nine percent of all US children have asthma and less than a quarter of one percent of all people under the age of 20 have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Merikangas and a team of researchers analyzed data from the National Comorbidity Study-Adolescent Supplement, which surveyed more than 10,000 US teens. The study is the first to track the prevalence of a broad range of mental disorders in a nationally representative sample of US teens. They found that nearly a third of the teens met the criteria for the most common mental disorder among US youth, anxiety disorders, which include social phobia and panic "attacks". This class of disorder also had the earliest median onset age, occurring in children as young as six years old. Behavior disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, were the next most common condition (19.1 percent), followed by mood disorders (14.3 percent) such as depression. Eleven percent of teens with a mood disorder, 10 percent with behavior disorders and eight percent who had anxiety disorders, especially social phobics, met the criteria for severe impairment, meaning their condition affected their day-to-day life and caused them great distress. Teen mental disorder rates mirror those seen in adults, suggesting that most adults develop a mental disorder before adulthood, say the researchers, calling for earlier intervention and prevention, and more research to determine what the risk factors are for mental disorders in youth. Big Pharma going after the teen population for drug distribution.....
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So where does that leave the faggots and drunks in the Capitol Building in Washington D.C.?? :-o
__________________________________________________________ Sedated? lol
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
What normal teenager doesn't think that they are crazy? It's part of coming of age for crying out loud. Big Pharma wants to profit off normal teenage angst. It's disgusting.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
Some one whould tell the researchers that's called adolescence. Heck, I had all kinds of problems as a teen, including a suicide attempt. We grow up and we get over most of it. ------- I think that the definition for adolescence meets the criteria of mental disorder.......lol. This is the danger of having Big Pharma survey adolescents. It's not about helping kids overcome the side effects of adolescence but rather opening up market share to create more life long pill poppers.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
Teen mental disorder rates mirror those seen in adults
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#2. To: X-15 (#1)
So where does that leave the faggots and drunks in the Capitol Building in Washington D.C.?? :-o
#3. To: abraxas (#0)
#4. To: Eric Stratton (#3)
#5. To: abraxas (#4)
#6. To: abraxas (#0)
Around half of US teens meet the criteria for a mental disorder and nearly one in four report having a mood, behavior or anxiety disorder that interferes with daily life, American researchers say.
Messed up hormones, a still developing brain, and a changing body are bound to cause mood, behavior, and anxiety issues.
No need for Big Pharma to deprive kids of the valuable learning experience that adolescence is.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Carl Sagan.
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