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5/19/2013 5:43:32 PM
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1 in 5 children have a "mental disorder"....
[url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-usa-health-children-idUSBRE94F11N20130516]Up to 20 percent of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder, and the number of kids diagnosed with one has been rising for more than a decade, according to a report released on Thursday by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.[/url]
Which leads me to this (or these) question(s).
1: Is this an actual "increase" or are we/doctors just getting better at diagnosis?
2: Was the rate of disorders the same previously, but we just labeled the kids as "difficult", "spoiled", "acting out"?
3: If the rate of "disorders" is a significant fraction, could it be that we're too narrowly defining what is "normal" or "healthy"?
It tends to remind me of an old saying that I heard when I was young. "Just because the doctor has a name for your condition, that doesn't mean that they know what is wrong with you or that they can do anything about it."
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Edited by DemonicChronic: 5/19/2013 10:51:13 PMMore and more kids are going to psychiatrists nowadays. It's actually staring to become the norm to see one. I can't count the number of people I know that take medication, and it literally makes them feel more accepted because they have some 'condition' like the everyone else. "I'm bipolar. I have mood swings." "I have anxiety, I feel edgy." "I might be schizophrenic, I'm paranoid all the time" A lot of these people seem to exaggerate their 'symptoms.' They turn this kind of thing into a contest. Which is beyond me. I know someone who has legit bipolar disorder and schizophrenia (I've been attacked by this person, not in their right mind.), and someone who has severe anxiety. And the way they act is vastly different from how these people I see claiming to have disorders act. I can't account for everyone I see, I'm not [i]that[/i] involved in their lives. But I can at least get a sense of someone claiming that they're bipolar when they're just slightly emotional about something. I've seen the real thing and they usually don't live up to it.
