This thread is a year old now, and I'm not resurrecting it to get
Dwellars to post again their personal experiences.
Instead, I wonder if others feel that pharmaceutical companies
are feeding the flames of mental illness primarily for $ profit.
The article below bothers me... because I don't believe it.
I find it difficult to believe 12% of the population NEED to be
on prescription drugs, just to carry on with their lives.
Washington Post
David Brown
January18, 2012
Government survey finds that 5 percent of Americans suffer from a ‘serious mental illness’
Quote:
About 20 percent of American adults suffer some sort of mental illness each year,
and about 5 percent experience a serious disorder that disrupts work, family or social life,
according to a government report released Thursday.<snip>
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Quote:
Prescription medicine was the most common treatment, used by 12 percent of adults.
Between 2002 and 2010, the percentage of adults getting outpatient counseling fell slightly (to 7 percent),
while the fraction of adults using a prescription drug went up.
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Daniel J. Carlat, a Massachusetts psychiatrist whose 2010 book
“Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry” criticized the profession’s overreliance on prescription drugs,
agreed “that there is a kind of alarmist quality to these reports.”
The disorders found could include spider-phobia and staying upset
for a long time after arguing with one’s spouse.
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Your thoughts ????