This explains why Americans have elected G.W. Bush. Also why they are
convinced that it is more important to save themselves from terrorist
attacks, than from all other threats to their lives combined. That's why 
they
have sacrificed their liberties and their finances to fight the number
five-hundred-something cause of death, making sure there are no money to
fight the number 1, number 2, number 3 and other causes of death. No money
for their retirement, either. They'll keep on working 'till they die of old
age, so that the government has all their money to waste on making our world
more dangerous and air less breathable.

Cancer epidemic? Asthma epidemic among kids? We know that, but dying from
cancer or choking from an asthma attack is OK! Those problems can wait!
We're at war now! Be patriotic! We're at many wars - both external and
internal! Perpetual wars....

Well, at least now we know the roots of all that. Read on...

Bruce M.

From:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/health/07mental.html

Most Will Be Mentally Ill at Some Point, Study Says

By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: June 7, 2005
More than half of Americans will develop a mental illness at some point in
their lives, often beginning in childhood or adolescence, researchers have
found in a survey that experts say will have wide-ranging implications for
the practice of psychiatry.

 The survey is the most comprehensive in a series of censuslike mental
health studies undertaken by the government. The findings of those studies
are frequently cited by researchers, advocacy groups, policy makers and drug
manufacturers to emphasize the importance of diagnosing and treating mental
illness.
The earlier, less comprehensive surveys, which were published in 1984 and
1994 and which also found a high prevalence of mental illness, came under
attack on the ground that they defined mental illness too broadly. Now,
experts say, the new findings are sure to renew debate about whether mental
illness can be reliably distinguished from garden-variety emotional
struggles that are part of any life.

Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, the
primary sponsor of the study, said in a conference call with reporters, "The
key point to remember is that mental disorders are highly prevalent and
chronic."

The study, Dr. Insel added, "demonstrates clearly that these really are the
chronic disorders of young people in this country."

On the other side are psychiatrists who say they believe that the estimates
are inflated. "Fifty percent of Americans mentally impaired - are you
kidding me?" said Dr. Paul McHugh, a professor of psychiatry at Johns
Hopkins University.

While the new survey was carefully done, Dr. McHugh said, "the problem is
that the diagnostic manual we are using in psychiatry is like a field guide
and it just keeps expanding and expanding."

"Pretty soon," he said, "we'll have a syndrome for short, fat Irish guys
with a Boston accent, and I'll be mentally ill."

The report comes amid debate about whether adults and children should be
screened for mental disorders, and where the line between illness and health
should be drawn. The answers will have an enormous effect on who receives
treatment and which disorders are covered by insurance.

The $20 million survey, which in addition to the government financing
received some support from health research foundations and pharmaceutical
companies, appears in a series of four papers in the June issue of The
Archives of General Psychiatry. The investigators arranged face-to-face
interviews with a broad cross section of 9,282 Americans ages 18 and over,
and the interviewers asked the participants whether they had experienced
periods of extended sadness, alcohol or drug abuse, irrational fears or a
host of other symptoms. If so, the interviewers probed more pointedly about
the episodes, asking how long they lasted and how they affected the
participants' behavior.

People who described symptoms that met criteria outlined in the American
Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual were classified
as having had a mental disorder.

As expected, the researchers found that the most common problems were
depression, affecting about 17 percent of the people at some point in their
lives, and alcohol abuse, affecting 13 percent. Phobias were also common,
including social phobia, a form of extreme anxiety that affected 12 percent.
More than a quarter of those interviewed had had a mental disorder in the
last year.

Of those people who had suffered from a mental illness at some point in
their lives, most developed the problem at a young age. Mood disorders like
depression typically first struck people in early adulthood, in their 20's
or early 30's. But impulse-control problems like attention deficit
hyperactivity, and anxiety problems like phobias, usually started far
earlier, often by age 11.

Dr. Ronald C. Kessler, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical
School, was the lead author of the survey, and was joined by a team of
researchers from other universities and from the National Institute of
Mental Health. Dr. Kessler said the rates of illness found should not be
surprising.

"If I told you that 99 percent of Americans have had a physical illness, you
wouldn't blink an eye," he said in an interview. "The fact is that there is
a very wide range included here, with the equivalent of many psychiatric
hangnails. We don't want to demonize those, but we don't want to trivialize
them, either, because we know in many cases they lead to serious problems
later on."

The investigators also asked the study participants about treatments, and
found mixed results. Although people were more likely to find care than they
were 10 years ago, only a third of the treatments met even minimal standards
for effectiveness, said one co-author, Dr. Philip S. Wang, an assistant
professor in the department of health care policy at Harvard.

"Bruce Mallory"  wrote in message 
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> This explains why Americans


Generally have accepted that the entire world of academe is short on oxygen 
caused by the height of the ivory towers.
These self involved naval gazers  have credibility ZERO with people who live 
in the real world.



            Jim E

"Bruce Mallory"  wrote in message 
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> This explains why Americans have elected G.W. Bush. Also why they are
> convinced that it is more important to save themselves from terrorist
> attacks, than from all other threats to their lives combined. That's why 
> they
> have sacrificed their liberties and their finances to fight the number
> five-hundred-something cause of death, making sure there are no money to
> fight the number 1, number 2, number 3 and other causes of death. No money
> for their retirement, either. They'll keep on working 'till they die of 
> old
> age, so that the government has all their money to waste on making our 
> world
> more dangerous and air less breathable.
>
> Cancer epidemic? Asthma epidemic among kids? We know that, but dying from
> cancer or choking from an asthma attack is OK! Those problems can wait!
> We're at war now! Be patriotic! We're at many wars - both external and
> internal! Perpetual wars....
>
> Well, at least now we know the roots of all that. Read on...
>
> Bruce M.
>
> From:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/health/07mental.html
>
> Most Will Be Mentally Ill at Some Point, Study Says
>
> By BENEDICT CAREY
> Published: June 7, 2005
> More than half of Americans will develop a mental illness at some point in
> their lives, often beginning in childhood or adolescence, researchers have
> found in a survey that experts say will have wide-ranging implications for
> the practice of psychiatry.
>
> The survey is the most comprehensive in a series of censuslike mental
> health studies undertaken by the government. The findings of those studies
> are frequently cited by researchers, advocacy groups, policy makers and 
> drug
> manufacturers to emphasize the importance of diagnosing and treating 
> mental
> illness.
> The earlier, less comprehensive surveys, which were published in 1984 and
> 1994 and which also found a high prevalence of mental illness, came under
> attack on the ground that they defined mental illness too broadly. Now,
> experts say, the new findings are sure to renew debate about whether 
> mental
> illness can be reliably distinguished from garden-variety emotional
> struggles that are part of any life.
>
> Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, the
> primary sponsor of the study, said in a conference call with reporters, 
> "The
> key point to remember is that mental disorders are highly prevalent and
> chronic."
>
> The study, Dr. Insel added, "demonstrates clearly that these really are 
> the
> chronic disorders of young people in this country."
>
> On the other side are psychiatrists who say they believe that the 
> estimates
> are inflated. "Fifty percent of Americans mentally impaired - are you
> kidding me?" said Dr. Paul McHugh, a professor of psychiatry at Johns
> Hopkins University.
>
> While the new survey was carefully done, Dr. McHugh said, "the problem is
> that the diagnostic manual we are using in psychiatry is like a field 
> guide
> and it just keeps expanding and expanding."
>
> "Pretty soon," he said, "we'll have a syndrome for short, fat Irish guys
> with a Boston accent, and I'll be mentally ill."
>
> The report comes amid debate about whether adults and children should be
> screened for mental disorders, and where the line between illness and 
> health
> should be drawn. The answers will have an enormous effect on who receives
> treatment and which disorders are covered by insurance.
>
> The $20 million survey, which in addition to the government financing
> received some support from health research foundations and pharmaceutical
> companies, appears in a series of four papers in the June issue of The
> Archives of General Psychiatry. The investigators arranged face-to-face
> interviews with a broad cross section of 9,282 Americans ages 18 and over,
> and the interviewers asked the participants whether they had experienced
> periods of extended sadness, alcohol or drug abuse, irrational fears or a
> host of other symptoms. If so, the interviewers probed more pointedly 
> about
> the episodes, asking how long they lasted and how they affected the
> participants' behavior.
>
> People who described symptoms that met criteria outlined in the American
> Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual were 
> classified
> as having had a mental disorder.
>
> As expected, the researchers found that the most common problems were
> depression, affecting about 17 percent of the people at some point in 
> their
> lives, and alcohol abuse, affecting 13 percent. Phobias were also common,
> including social phobia, a form of extreme anxiety that affected 12 
> percent.
> More than a quarter of those interviewed had had a mental disorder in the
> last year.
>
> Of those people who had suffered from a mental illness at some point in
> their lives, most developed the problem at a young age. Mood disorders 
> like
> depression typically first struck people in early adulthood, in their 20's
> or early 30's. But impulse-control problems like attention deficit
> hyperactivity, and anxiety problems like phobias, usually started far
> earlier, often by age 11.
>
> Dr. Ronald C. Kessler, a professor of health care policy at Harvard 
> Medical
> School, was the lead author of the survey, and was joined by a team of
> researchers from other universities and from the National Institute of
> Mental Health. Dr. Kessler said the rates of illness found should not be
> surprising.
>
> "If I told you that 99 percent of Americans have had a physical illness, 
> you
> wouldn't blink an eye," he said in an interview. "The fact is that there 
> is
> a very wide range included here, with the equivalent of many psychiatric
> hangnails. We don't want to demonize those, but we don't want to 
> trivialize
> them, either, because we know in many cases they lead to serious problems
> later on."
>
> The investigators also asked the study participants about treatments, and
> found mixed results. Although people were more likely to find care than 
> they
> were 10 years ago, only a third of the treatments met even minimal 
> standards
> for effectiveness, said one co-author, Dr. Philip S. Wang, an assistant
> professor in the department of health care policy at Harvard.
>
>
>

Why do we let the mentally ill run the country? Especially those who claim 
to be born again. Did they abort their previous life?

"Bruce Mallory"  wrote in message
news:pKEpe.1024$eM6.442@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...

> This explains why Americans have elected G.W. Bush. Also why they are
> convinced that it is more important to save themselves from terrorist
> attacks, than from all other threats to their lives combined. That's why
> they
> have sacrificed their liberties and their finances to fight the number
> five-hundred-something cause of death, making sure there are no money to
> fight the number 1, number 2, number 3 and other causes of death. No money
> for their retirement, either. They'll keep on working 'till they die of
old
> age, so that the government has all their money to waste on making our
world
> more dangerous and air less breathable.


Then why does the US have the cleanest air and water? And let me remind you
that the Kyoto agreement didn't apply to the countries that pollute the most
like China with a billion+ people or Russia.



>
> Cancer epidemic? Asthma epidemic among kids? We know that, but dying from
> cancer or choking from an asthma attack is OK!


You're hysterical  haha Diseases have always existed lol

You probably believe that burning  fosil fuel causes global warming as well
haha A couple of summers ago there was a record temperature in Rome of 93F.
It hadn't been that high on that date in 200 years. Now, were there any cars
around 200 years ago?


 Those problems can wait!

> We're at war now! Be patriotic! We're at many wars - both external and
> internal! Perpetual wars....
>
> Well, at least now we know the roots of all that. Read on...
>
> Bruce M.
>
> From:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/health/07mental.html
>
> Most Will Be Mentally Ill at Some Point, Study Says
>
> By BENEDICT CAREY
> Published: June 7, 2005
> More than half of Americans will develop a mental illness at some point in
> their lives, often beginning in childhood or adolescence, researchers have
> found in a survey that experts say will have wide-ranging implications for
> the practice of psychiatry.


About 1% of the population has a real mental disease. All the others just
have the ordinary problems of life, not diseases. But of course the jewish
dominated American Psychiatric Association is continually manufacturing new
"diseases" and getting rich $$$$$ off them as well. More than 1/2 of jews
are mentally ill.




>
>  The survey is the most comprehensive in a series of censuslike mental


In real medicine we don't take a poll to determine whether something is a
disease. However, this doesn't deter the Yiddish Psychiatric Assoc. because
this is exactly how they decide whether something is a disease, by a vote!
Homosexuality is no longer a disease because it was voted out  haha




> health studies undertaken by the government. The findings of those studies
> are frequently cited by researchers, advocacy groups


Wacko feminists?



, policy makers and drug

> manufacturers


$$$$$$$$ yes drug manufacturers are very unbiased



 to emphasize the importance of diagnosing and treating mental

> illness.
> The earlier, less comprehensive surveys, which were published in 1984 and
> 1994 and which also found a high prevalence of mental illness, came under
> attack on the ground that they defined mental illness too broadly. Now,
> experts say, the new findings are sure to renew debate about whether
mental
> illness can be reliably distinguished from garden-variety emotional
> struggles that are part of any life.
>
> Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, the
> primary sponsor of the study, said in a conference call with reporters,
"The
> key point to remember is that mental disorders are highly prevalent and
> chronic."


Only among jews.



>
> The study, Dr. Insel added, "demonstrates clearly that these really are
the
> chronic disorders of young people in this country."


It's called adolescence  lol



>
> On the other side are psychiatrists who say they believe that the
estimates
> are inflated. "Fifty percent of Americans mentally impaired - are you
> kidding me?" said Dr. Paul McHugh,



Sounds Irish to me.



 a professor of psychiatry at Johns

> Hopkins University.
>
> While the new survey was carefully done, Dr. McHugh said, "the problem is
> that the diagnostic manual we are using in psychiatry is like a field
guide
> and it just keeps expanding and expanding."
>
> "Pretty soon," he said, "we'll have a syndrome for short, fat Irish guys
> with a Boston accent, and I'll be mentally ill."


Wait. Those yahoodies will figure out a way of making some money on it  haha



>
> The report comes amid debate about whether adults and children should be
> screened for mental disorders, and where the line between illness and
health
> should be drawn. The answers will have an enormous effect on who receives
> treatment and which disorders are covered by insurance.


Hmm insurance? I think he means government $$$$$ (taxes) but the yids will
figure  out a way of getting their hands on it.




>
> The $20 million survey, which in addition to the government financing
> received some support from health research foundations and pharmaceutical
> companies


Surprise.


, appears in a series of four papers in the June issue of The

> Archives of General Psychiatry. The investigators arranged face-to-face
> interviews with a broad cross section of 9,282 Americans ages 18 and over,
> and the interviewers asked the participants whether they had experienced
> periods of extended sadness, alcohol or drug abuse


What's abuse? Doing something more than the next guy?  lol


, irrational fears or a

> host of other symptoms. If so, the interviewers probed more pointedly
about
> the episodes, asking how long they lasted and how they affected the
> participants' behavior.
>
> People who described symptoms that met criteria outlined in the American
> Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual were
classified
> as having had a mental disorder.


A collection of nonsense and yiddish delusions for the most part. What is
health for a jew is sickness for a gentile and vice versa.



>
> As expected, the researchers found that the most common problems were
> depression, affecting about 17 percent of the people at some point in
their
> lives, and alcohol abuse, affecting 13 percent. Phobias were also common,
> including social phobia, a form of extreme anxiety that affected 12
percent.
> More than a quarter of those interviewed had had a mental disorder in the
> last year.
>
> Of those people who had suffered from a mental illness at some point in
> their lives, most developed the problem at a young age. Mood disorders
like
> depression typically first struck people in early adulthood, in their 20's
> or early 30's.


Actually "depression" is more common among the aged. So is suicide.


 But impulse-control problems like attention deficit

> hyperactivity, and anxiety problems like phobias, usually started far
> earlier, often by age 11.
>
> Dr. Ronald C. Kessler, a professor of health care policy at Harvard
Medical
> School, was the lead author of the survey, and was joined by a team of
> researchers from other universities and from the National Institute of
> Mental Health. Dr. Kessler said the rates of illness found should not be
> surprising.
>
> "If I told you that 99 percent of Americans have had a physical illness,
you
> wouldn't blink an eye," he said in an interview. "The fact is that there
is
> a very wide range included here,


And a good opportunity to get our hands on some of the naive gentile's
$$$$$$


 with the equivalent of many psychiatric

> hangnails. We don't want to demonize those, but we don't want to
trivialize
> them, either, because we know in many cases they lead to serious problems
> later on."


He knows nothing of the sort. Most problems improve on their own. Psychiatry
has actually been shown to make problems more acute and last longer than if
they just left the "patient" alone.



>
> The investigators also asked the study participants about treatments, and
> found mixed results. Although people were more likely to find care than
they
> were 10 years ago, only a third of the treatments met even minimal
standards
> for effectiveness,


so 2/3 don't work or make the person worse  lol and 1/3 have minimal effect
lol yes the placebo effect  haha



 said one co-author, Dr. Philip S. Wang, an assistant

> professor in the department of health care policy at Harvard.
>
>
>