Mental illnesses are common in the United States and around the world. It is estimated that more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (59.3 million in 2022; 23.1% of the U.S. adult population). ...Younger adults now consider it normal to be medicated with anti-psychotic drugs. Especially women.Prevalence of Any Mental Illness (AMI)
In 2022, there were an estimated 59.3 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States with AMI. This number represented 23.1% of all U.S. adults.
The observed prevalence of AMI was higher among females (26.4%) than males (19.7%).
Young adults aged 18-25 years had the highest prevalence of AMI (36.2%) compared to adults aged 26-49 years (29.4%) and aged 50 and older (13.9%).
The prevalence of AMI was highest among the adults reporting two or more races (35.2%), followed by White adults (24.6%). The prevalence of AMI was lowest among Asian adults (16.8%). ...
In 2022, among the 59.3 million adults with AMI, 30.0 million (50.6%) received mental health treatment in the past year.
More females with AMI (56.9%) received mental health treatment than males with AMI (41.6%).
The recent election has also convinced me that many of our elites, journalists, pundits, politicians, rich, celebrities, etc. are mentally ill. Many have Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Schools from Harvard on down canceled so students can grieve over the election. Some are providing furry animals to pet. And counselors to talk to.
And there are many more with undiagnosed mental illnesses.
I do not know why mental illness would be increasing. Perhaps children today are not taught to solve their own problems.
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Roger,
The entire problem is the pharmaceutical industry in bed with so called medical industry. Conflict of interest does not seem to be concern to either party...probably because of their lobbyists on K Street in DC are paid quite well.
Once upon a time people learned how to deal with stress and problems by being forced to cope with them. People usually made changes to their behavior to avoid doing the thing that was overwhelming them.
Now pretty much everyone from a very early age is encouraged to 'take something for that' which always seems to snowball into 'keep taking that for the rest of your life' with a following train of constant side effects and complicated interactions requiring even more medication. This paradigm suits the pharmaceutical industry just fine as they don't want anyone to actually get better. They make their money keeping you on drugs, not you getting off of them.
Drug dealing is not just something done on shady street corners. These days it pretty much takes place in every doctor's office.
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