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Epidemic? Half of US teens ‘meet criteria for mental disorder’


WASHINGTON — Around half of US teens meet the criteria for a mental disorder and nearly one in four report having a mood, behavior or anxiety disorder that interferes with daily life, American researchers say.

Fifty-one percent of boys and 49 percent of girls aged 13-19 have a mood, behavior, anxiety or substance use disorder, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

In 22.2 percent of teens, the disorder was so severe it impaired their daily activities and caused great distress, says the study led by Kathleen Merikangas of the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH).

"The prevalence of severe emotional and behavior disorders is even higher than the most frequent major physical conditions in adolescence, including asthma or diabetes," the study says.

Mental problems do not get the same attention from public health authorities even though they cost US families around a quarter of a trillion dollars a year, according to the study.


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By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent from the London Telegraph
Last Updated: 10:01AM BST 01 May 2009

The lithium levels ranged between 0.7 micrograms per litre and 59 micrograms per litre.

The researchers then calculated the suicide rate in each of the 18 areas. They found that the suicide rate was significantly lower in those areas with the highest levels of lithium in the water.

Writing in the British Journal of Psychiatry, the researchers said: "Our study suggests that very low levels of lithium in drinking water can lower the risk of suicide. Very low levels may possess an anti-suicidal effect."

Lithium is a naturally occurring metal found in variable amounts in food and water. In medicine, very high doses are used to treat bipolar disorder and mood disorders.

But so far the potential benefit of using low levels of lithium to reduce the risk of suicide has not been studied closely.

The study has prompted calls for further research into the possibility of adding lithium to drinking supplies – like water fluoridation to improve dental health.

Researchers at Oita University in Japan measured natural lithium levels in tap water in 18 communities in the surrounding region of southern Japan.

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HEALTH
Baby boom 2.0 or NOT?

This record in US child births is anything but exceptional. America is in fact  on the fringes of being able to effectively repopulate itself with a rate of 2.1 children born per female. It should come as no surprise that in the year 1930 the proportion of those having children was significantly higher then it was now, after all the population has nearly tripled since then! This article concludes that this baby boom is minimal, and but a trivial spike when contrasted with those of years prior. But this article fails to take into consideration the proportion factor! Essentially the birth 'rate' is lower then its ever been... Obviously 300 million+ people are going to have more babies then 120 million!

http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/aabirthrate.htm

So what is all this prego hoopla all about?  Recent flicks like 'Juno' and the combined efforts of news media agencies are sending a clear message: They are encouraging Caucasians to reproduce so not to be the minority in the future. This is evidenced in their emphasis of Hispanic growth booms, and warnings of Hispanic/ minorities becoming the majority in a couple decades and that would mean they would need an endless string of minority puppets to pretend to run the country, and the Obama show isn't easy! So this story is best summed up as a well devised attempt to encourage selective pregnancy, whilst discouraging reproduction in the population as a whole.

In contrived recession,
minorities should try not to die

If you are a minority that has been mass marketed a life of excess calories and transfatts then its probably more economically viable to court big pharma throughout your life span then waiting to pay for an overpriced intensive care when you are going to expire. Recent research conducted by the academic industry has studied the differences in end-of life health care costs by looking at cultural differences in attitudes towards health agencies, insisting that minorities are more reluctant to use these services due to fear of discrimination and that they require more assistance in dieing, due to various dispositions! Simply put 'minorities' tend to see health care agencies less throughout their lives then white people, but on average have more costly benefits at lifes end. There is some truth to minorities distrust with the medical industry however the research however fails to mention the differences in marketing campaigns of unhealthy products which lead to these expensive ailments. The difference in longevity can largely be attributed to being mass marketed unhealthy lifestyles, through hip-Pop, advertising, media whichs leads to health problems that cumulate in the end of life.

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Ensuring the unbending artificial optimism of future miseducated consumers

The Lexapro company has been approved to distribute a new depression drug to the hoards of spoonfed upcoming debtors. The company was recently under scrutiny by the US justice department for its alleged incentives given to medical doctors and psychiatrists to push the drug on teenagers with self-esteem issues (90%). Whats more, the drug hasn't even been proven to do anything to alleviate the symptoms of whats mistakenly viewed by psychiatricks as an organic disease. The truth is depression is necessarily psychogenic, the chemical imbalance arises as a result of a poor psychological makeup, emotional disturbances etc, and alleviating physical symptoms will never repress the problem enough, much less address it to allow a person to proceed through a natural growth process. In spite of the fact that the drug showed no effect when tested against a placebo, it has been temporarily permitted to be distributed to the millions of children in America who have been hooked on legal drugs, and will likely be dependent on them for life.

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