http://www.cnbc.com/id/40257359

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans had mental illness in 2009

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"CHICAGO - More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, U.S. government researchers reported on Thursday. Young adults aged 18 to 25 had the highest level of mental illness at 30 percent, while those aged 50 and older had the lowest, with 13.7 percent, said the report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration or SAMHSA. The rate, slightly higher than last year's 19.5 percent figure, reflected increasing depression, especially among the unemployed, SAMHSA, part of the National Institutes of Health, said. "Too many Americans are not getting the help they need and opportunities to prevent and intervene early are being missed," Pamela Hyde, SAMHSA's administrator, said in a statement. "The consequences for individuals, families and communities can be devastating. If left untreated mental illnesses can result in disability, substance abuse, suicides, lost productivity, and family discord." The 2009 mental health survey hints at the impact of record unemployment rates, which last year hit a 25-year high as struggling employers slashed jobs to cope with a weak economy. For many, lost employment meant loss of health insurance, leaving many of the nation's mentally ill unable to get treatment. According to the survey, 6.1 million adults last year had a mental health need that went untreated, and 42.5 percent said it was because they could not afford it. It found 14.8 million Americans had major depression last year, and 10 percent of the jobless did, compared with 7.5 of retired people or those not in the job force, 7.3 percent who worked part time and 5.4 percent who worked full time. Only 64 percent of adults aged 18 or older with major depression were treated last year, compared with 71 percent a year ago. Being jobless also increased the risk of suicide. Adults who were unemployed last year were twice as likely to have serious thoughts of suicide as people who were fully employed, with 6.6 percent of the unemployed considering suicide, compared with 3.1 percent of those who were working. The survey also found that 23.8 percent of women had some form of mental illness, compared with 15.6 percent of men."

Bitches be crazy.

11/19/2010 6:24:33 PM

I agree

11/19/2010 6:25:06 PM

This is why we can't have nice things

11/19/2010 6:26:03 PM

1 in 3?

nah its more than that

11/19/2010 6:26:29 PM

There is no such thing as mental illness.

11/19/2010 6:26:51 PM

Ladies also have a shit ton more baggage which I am sure has a one to one correlation to crazy.

11/19/2010 6:27:35 PM

How does SAMHSA define mental illness?

11/19/2010 6:46:47 PM

So we have RachelMarie, who else is mentally ill

11/19/2010 6:59:07 PM

[Edited on November 19, 2010 at 7:03 PM. Reason : In hindsight, probably shouldn't say that. Might still be lurking.]

11/19/2010 7:00:58 PM

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"There is no such thing as mental illness."

Hold up guys, I wanna hear this one.

11/19/2010 7:03:49 PM

i have AWS

attention whore syndrome

it feels really good to get this off my chest guys. thanks for listening.

[Edited on November 19, 2010 at 7:08 PM. Reason : .]

11/19/2010 7:08:27 PM

now that's off you're chest, what's left?

11/19/2010 7:09:32 PM

11/19/2010 7:09:55 PM

he's saying you're flat as fuck, you see

11/19/2010 7:09:57 PM

^^

11/19/2010 7:10:18 PM

that sounds suspiciously like e-bullying, EMCE

11/19/2010 7:12:05 PM

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"1 in 3? nah its more than that"

I agree. Hell, BubbleBobble has at least 1 other username here. The amount of aliases should drastically increase the number of people fucked up in the head.

11/19/2010 7:12:20 PM

nah, bro

it's all love. kaddywack knows I have nothing but <3 for her

11/19/2010 7:12:53 PM

EMCE making fun of mosquito bites in this thread, what a meanie

[Edited on November 19, 2010 at 7:13 PM. Reason : i also saw him throw a rock at a singing blue bird today]

11/19/2010 7:13:15 PM

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"Hold up guys, I wanna hear this one."

Cognition can be maladaptive towards the often largely arbitrary pressures of society,
even to the point that it results in a breakdown of the system,
but, in reality, since there is no actual "mind", there is also no illness of the mind.
There are physical illnesses of the brain, maladaptive cognition, and most certainly combinations of the two,
but there is no such thing as mental illness.

This doesn't change the fact that bitches be crazy.

11/19/2010 7:15:16 PM

EMCE is just trying to trick me into taking his shirt off for him

we've been down this road before

11/19/2010 7:15:34 PM

I got dat 190% mental illness.

11/19/2010 7:15:37 PM

HUUUWWWWHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAT?

11/19/2010 7:16:31 PM

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"1 in 3? nah its more than that"

at least i own up to my mental illness

11/19/2010 8:19:33 PM

Im not crazy, everyone else is

11/19/2010 8:21:24 PM

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"JUST ONE PEPSI!"

11/19/2010 8:22:54 PM

EMCE

you are making fun of small boobies? that is not nice.

11/19/2010 8:23:14 PM

wait,......who on TWW is NOT crazy??

11/19/2010 8:26:41 PM

I CLAIMED CRAZY FIRST DAMMIT!

it is all about meeeeee

11/19/2010 8:27:38 PM

but I thought it was all about me

11/19/2010 8:28:50 PM

3 in 1 have multiple personalities.

11/19/2010 8:57:58 PM

11/19/2010 9:20:12 PM

That's because they started inventing mental illnesses for our generation.

11/19/2010 10:21:22 PM

I got one of the old mental illnesses....they had to change the name to sound more appeasing

11/19/2010 10:28:04 PM

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"EMCE you are making fun of small boobies? that is not nice."

what's it to you?!?!

11/19/2010 10:31:24 PM

love all boobies, don't discriminate!

11/19/2010 10:33:06 PM

even the tiny ones?

11/19/2010 10:33:45 PM

This is BS meant to drive us all to the mercy of the pharmaceutical companies.

11/19/2010 10:33:48 PM

EMCE just e-bullies on the interwebs to compensate for his own ugly boobs

11/19/2010 10:34:21 PM

11/19/2010 10:34:48 PM

i guess the boob thing is an opinion but girls can't help if they have no boobies.

i used to have no boobies but then i stopped dancing 8 hours a day and i went up to my fav weight of 120 and got c-cup boobies!

of course now i'm fat so they have grown to large d's, technically dd's. i'd rather lose the weight and lose a cup size or 2 in exchange. not that i don't like my boobs now but i'm pretty sure they will go back down to a large c when i get to my goal weight.

11/19/2010 10:54:45 PM

I am a fan of boobies

11/19/2010 11:00:36 PM

i <3 boobies as well
esp mine b/c they are soft and i can rub my face on them(don't ask-weird thing i do)

11/19/2010 11:08:59 PM

I feel bad for those of you who are mentally ill, but am happy that it isn't me with the mental problems.

11/20/2010 12:46:51 AM

B00b13Z

11/20/2010 2:25:21 AM

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"This is BS meant to drive us all to the mercy of the pharmaceutical companies."

Ding! Ding! Ding!

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"i <3 boobies as well esp mine b/c they are soft and i can rub my face on them"

Tell me more.....

11/20/2010 8:06:43 AM

ahahhahahahha

isnt this the same argument the you and i had a while back indy

[Edited on November 20, 2010 at 10:49 AM. Reason : ftr i believe that depression, anxiety etc are REAL disorders but are overdiagnosed hugely. ]

[Edited on November 20, 2010 at 10:51 AM. Reason : .....]

11/20/2010 10:48:30 AM

crazy, i was crazy once

11/20/2010 10:50:48 AM

I wonder what % of the young people is due to college kids popping adderall

11/20/2010 10:53:53 AM

we learned about the crash that comes with adderall. since it blocks reuptake AND metabolism of dopamine..... once it wears off there isn't enough in the vesicle of the synapse to release.

which is the same is the same chemical mechanism (the latter part at least) of depression.

11/20/2010 11:00:19 AM