Kessler, 50% of America is mentally ill.
"The high prevalence estimates reported in the paper were initially met with a good deal of skepticism. Although subsequent clinical calibration studies showed that the estimates are accurate, this led to a deeper questioning of the accuracy of the DSM system itself. The thinking goes like this: It’s inconceivable that half the population is mentally ill. Therefore, there must be something wrong with the DSM system. The error in this thinking is that the term "mentally ill" is being taken too seriously. It wouldn’t surprise anyone if I said that 99.9% of the population had been physically ill at some time in their life. Why, then, should it surprise anyone that 50% of the population has been mentally ill at some time in their life?"-Ronald Kessler
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The medicalizing of human emotions begins with this thought and it's most of the time funded by Pharma; so in essence, we are being manipulated by the pharmaceutical industry.
The "soft" diagnoses are dangerous, because there is no reason to medicate emotions. Severe mental illness is one thing, small blips on our emotional or sadness radar is another. Americans are buying into the DTC ads in magazines and on television, convinced by a marketing agency they need a pill for the blues or moods.That is not always the case.
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I am going through menopause..I think I am part of the 50%
if I said that 99.9% of the population had been physically ill at some time in their life. Why, then, should it surprise anyone that 50% of the population has been mentally ill at some time in their life?"-Ronald Kessler
Because one can be cured of physical illness. The boogyman of mental illness stays for life, thanks to psychiatry's methods.
I have proof that 50% of the population is mentally ill. Obla-blah is the president isn't he?
You think Mental Health is bad now. Just wait until they get done messing with health care.
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