Half the United States Has Mental Problems
Thursday, March 29th, 2007The most recent issue of the prestigious journal Archives of General Psychiatry published the results of a U.S. government study that is almost beyond belief. It concerns the results of a study that was performed over the course of one year based on a study group of 10,000 adults of both sexes. The conclusions are truly troubling. Using sophisticated statistical calculations based on highly selective control protocols, researches from among the most prominent North American universities and psychiatric institutions have concluded that half the U.S. population is suffering from some type of mental disorder.
It seems like a joke, but it certainly is not. The figures in fact indicate a collective drama on a scale never before seen in the history of psychology. In the year in which the study was done, 41.1% of the research subjects received treatments aimed at controlling significant psychological injury; 12.3% were seen by psychiatrists; 16% received various kinds of psychotherapeutic treatments; 48.3% of those treated received no benefit from mental care, while only 12.7% showed a positive response to therapy. (continues…)
