1 in 5 young Americans has personality disorder

[katty]

more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28002991/

1 in 5 young Americans has personality disorder
Fewer than 25 percent of college-age suffers get treatment, study finds

updated 2:10 p.m. PT, Mon., Dec. 1, 2008
CHICAGO - Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes with everyday life, and even more abuse alcohol or drugs, researchers reported Monday in the most extensive study of its kind.

The disorders include problems such as obsessive or compulsive tendencies and anti-social behavior that can sometimes lead to violence. The study also found that fewer than 25 percent of college-aged Americans with mental problems get treatment.

One expert said personality disorders may be overdiagnosed. But others said the results were not surprising since previous, less rigorous evidence has suggested mental problems are common on college campuses and elsewhere.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

1. I can beat this

and say that 49% of Americans voted for a friggin idiot with a numbskull as his running mate.

[JohnWxy]

15. Poiint well taken, but how many of those "voters" only reside in an electronic voting machine?

[QueenOfCalifornia]

19. I think that the country

is pretty much middle of the road and also way more low information voters than any of us would guess.

I met several in this election cycle. One woman voted for McCain because she believed he was just so "honest." I pointed out that he was full of crap and showed evidence. She then admitted she didn't want to make her mother "mad" since her mother is a life-long republican - This woman is probably close to 40. WTF?
I was so pissed off at that point that I told her "I am glad you live in CA where your vote really means pretty much nothing (meaning it goes blue anyway.) She didn't understand how the electoral college works and had no clue that the popular vote is not what elects a president.

The voting machines are a big problem. I do an absentee ballot which may or may not be counted anyway...

We need election reform. :)

[Warpy]

2. Sure they do, only I think the study underestimated the numbers

Most work through whatever it is and become responsible adults in their 30s.

[wildflower]

16. Is it possible to work through a personality disorder?

Not snarking at you, just wondering what you mean, because I actually have heard that personality disorders often "smooth out" by one's 30s.

[Warpy]

20. I was snarking

because kids that age are just plain nuts, myself included.

I'm surprised I lived through it.

I only got boring and respectable after 30.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

3. There's been a noticeable increase in the number of "disorders" diagnosed among young people

Coinciding with the development and marketing of a plethora of prescription drugs designed to treat them.

Ain't it a coinkydink?

[kimmerspixelated]

7. BINGO!!!!!

Our society is over-drugged with scripts.

[walkaway]

4. And it's making the other four out of five...

CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Odin2005]

5. Only about half of those personality disorders I can see to be real disorders.

If you are a Borderline or a Histronic, yeah, you need help. But "Schizotypal" is just a lame medicalization of "crackpot loony" and Schizoid" just means "loner." I bet a lot of people diagnosed with "Schizoid Personality Disorder" are actually people (like myself) with Asperger's Syndrome.

On a related note, W clearly has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

[JVS]

6. ROCK!!!!!

[hunter]

8. Take a pill. That'll help.

Don't want any OCD anti-social wackos growing up and starting rebellions against the machine.

Fat, passive, easily manipulated, getting their news from fox television, able to do mind numbing work sixty hours a week for little pay.

Perfect citizens.

Sometimes people are anti social because their society sucks.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. I'm sure someone would have said I had a personality disorder

when I was a young person, but I considered it just part of growing up. Too many labels.

[EFerrari]

10. This seems very high. I'd like to see the replication of these results. n/t

[TexasObserver]

11. Whatever did we do before everyone had a pill to take so they wouldn't be emotionally impaired?

Brave New World is here, and Paxil, Abilify, Effexor, Zoloft, yada yada yada are going to save us.

We're the most overmedicated people on the planet, and unfortunately, they're intent on pilling up the youngsters at the first sign they aren't using their "inside voice."

[JohnWxy]

12. It's actually worse than that! Many of those interviewed have multiple personalities so the

number is actually more like one in four!

;)

[rucky]

13. Why don't they just call them Young Republicans?

:shrug:

[bemildred]

14. Yeah, the olders ones are all fucked up too.

Maybe society sucks and all these people are just trying to cope with it.

[uppityperson]

17. That explains posters on forums.

[zbdent]

18. for a while there, 3 in 10 had mental illnesses ...

oh, wait ... that was the approval rating of Dumbya ... thankfully, with meds, it's down to something like 1.2 out of 10 ...