Are 50% of Americans Mentally Ill?

[jakobeast]

Yes, 50% of the population suffers from a mental illness.







You know, women make up 50% of the population.







































































































































Just saying.

 

[CaveMan]

Or it could be the fact that Americans are becoming bigger sissies?

 

[supraman]

Or it could be the fact that Americans are becoming bigger sissies?

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[IceHogsFan]

Is it ironic that roughly 50% of the nation receives some form of government aid, roughly 50% of the nation pays no income tax and that this thread is about 50% of the nation having mental illness?



Just sayin'

 

[Shantz My Pants]

I'm part of that 50%. Does it make me a sissy because I have a chemical imbalance in my brain that causes my OCD and anxiety and the only way for me to live a "normal" functional life is to take medication?

Careful with how you are wording your posts, as some of them are coming off as ignorant.

 

[MassHavoc]

I'm part of that 50%. Does it make me a sissy because I have a chemical imbalance in my brain that causes my OCD and anxiety and the only way for me to live a "normal" functional life is to take medication?

Careful with how you are wording your posts, as some of them are coming off as ignorant.

Unrelated, but i thought OCD was classified as an anxiety disorder, not mentally ill?

 

[winos5]

Unrelated, but i thought OCD was classified as an anxiety disorder, not mentally ill?

Mental illness covers a vareity of disorders from mild to severe. Doesn't necassarilly mean your psychotic.

 

[MassHavoc]

That was really what i was getting at with my previous post, is that mentally ill is quite the large net. To me it's a mental disorder, not a mental illness which is different. But they are defined as one anymore.

 

[winos5]

That was really what i was getting at with my previous post, is that mentally ill is quite the large net. To me it's a mental disorder, not a mental illness which is different. But they are defined as one anymore.

That's not new, they've been clearly defined as psychiatric disorders for years. Just take a look at the various incarnations/editions of the DSM wich was first published in 1952. What is new is increasing public knowledge and trying to remove the stigma associated with them and seeking treatment for them.

 

[MassHavoc]

It just seems to me that everything seems to be getting swept into the same stigma and then, as you say, with increasing public knowledge and the broad list of ailments and symptoms on top of drug companies targeting folks to tell their doctors what's wrong with them. Everything gets a bit inflated and rolled into one big ball.