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US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues
Ant writes "Google News carries a Canadian Press report that 'a new study has found that five times as many high school and college students in the United States are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues than youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era. ... Pulling together the data for the study was no small task. Led by [San Diego State University psychology professor Jean Twenge], researchers at five universities analyzed the responses of 77,576 high school or college students who, from 1938 through 2007, took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, or MMPI. The results will be published in a future issue of the Clinical Psychology Review. Overall, an average of five times as many students in 2007 surpassed thresholds in one or more mental health categories, compared with those who did so in 1938. A few individual categories increased at an even greater rate — with six times as many scoring high in two areas: 'hypomania,' a measure of anxiety and unrealistic optimism (from 5 per cent of students in 1938 to 31 per cent in 2007), and depression (from 1 per cent to 6 per cent).'"
So it wasn't all bad then.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Wow, that place was aptly named.
Now that China has over 24 million more men than women because of the One Child Per Family program they should follow that example and name their country Horny. Chile should give that name up to Canada and spell it Chilly. North Korea should hencforth be known as Korazy.
If you didn't come to party don't bother knocking on my door. Prince '1999'
atheistic fanaticism
What is that? A "deafening silence" when teaching your kids about "creation science" or is it some other combination of oxymorons?
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
busted his little butt
You Evil, Evil Man!
Everyone knows that corporal punishment permanently scars children for life.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Everyone knows that corporal punishment permanently scars children for life.
Only if you can get a good crack with the belt.
Why conform, when the conformists are so fucked up?
Because everyone else is doing it. Duh.
This is not the funny you're looking for.
"Do you have P.A.D.? Nearly eleventy billion Americans have this potentially deadly disorder. Why have you never heard of this before? We at the *cough*bristolmeyerssquibb*cough* P.A.D. Coalition are trying to get the word out about P.A.D. now that we found that Plavix can be used to treat it! Call your doctor *now*... you may already be dying of something no one has ever heard of before last year!"
That pretty much summarizes the TV commercial I saw last week. Wag the dog, indeed.