Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |  According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), about one in five adults— some 45 million people—suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year. Three of the leading ten causes of disability (major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia) are mental disorders. The most serious of these problem may lead to suicide. In the year 2000, about 29,000 Americans took their own lives. More than 90% of them suffered from a diagnosable mental disorder. Men commit suicide four times more often than women, however women attempt suicide 2-3 times as often as men. |
Charles Barber
See book keywords and concepts |  Or, if she was having troubles on the job, with: occupational problem: "An occupational problem that is not due to a mental disorder or, if it is due to a mental disorder, is sufficiently severe to warrant independent clinical attention. Examples include job dissatisfaction and uncertainty about career choices."
Or, if she was questioning her sexuality, with: identity problem: "Uncertainty about multiple issues relating to identity such as long-term goals, career choice, friendship patterns, sexual orientation and behavior, moral values, and group loyalties. | | Or, if she was getting a divorce, with: phase of life problem: "A problem associated with a particular developmental phase or some other life circumstance that is not due to a mental disorder, or, if it is due to a mental disorder, is sufficiendy severe to warrant independent clinical attention. Examples include problems associated with entering school, leaving parental control, starting a new career, and changes involved in marriage, divorce, and retirement. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Dementia is any mental disorder characterized by impairment of memory, judgment, and abstract thinking, as well as personality changes.)
Recent research by scientists at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston suggests that the reason could be related to insulin resistance in their brain cells, which affects the way those cells function. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts | | More than 90% of them suffered from a diagnosable mental disorder. Men commit suicide four times more often than women, however women attempt suicide 2-3 times as often as men.3
How accurate are these numbers? Establishing just how many people suffer from mental illness—that is, national estimates of prevalence—is problematic. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
See book keywords and concepts |  The symptoms do not occur exclusively during the course of a Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Schizophrenia, or other Psychotic Disorder and are not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., Mood Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Dissociative Disorder, or a Personality Disorder). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I believe recent studies show as much as 15 to 20 percent of the population is currently suffering from some kind of a diagnosable mental disorder, and that's not normal.
Kevala: And what is normal, by the way?
Mike: Normal is no mental disorders.
Kevala: Right, how many people are schizophrenic and running around, medicating themselves other ways – for example, using food, sugar and conspicuous consumption as their means of anesthetizing themselves?
Mike: That's a great way to put it – alcohol, caffeine, sodas, lots and lots of sugar. |
Charles Barber
See book keywords and concepts | | Almost 8 percent of Americans reported having suffered from a serious mental disorder, a rate about three times higher than any other developed country in the survey.44 In reporting the story, The New York Times stated, bluntly, about Americans: "Most Will Be Mentally 111 at Some Point, Study Says."45 "We lead the world in a lot of good things, but we're also leaders in this one particular domain that we'd rather not be," said the study's lead author.46
Americans have responded to what's in the air, and on the air, around them. They are deeply immersed in craziness. | | A World Health Organization study found that, in the United States, about a third of people in psychiatric treatment either met no criteria for a mental disorder or had subthreshold conditions.39 As Shorter said in a 2003 article, "So Many Left Out: The Seriously 111 Lose Out to the Zoloft Set": "Your chances of receiving proper care are in inverse proportion to the seriousness of your condition."40
Large percentages of people with severe and persistent mental illness are in no care whatsoever. | | The majority of those with a diagnosable mental disorder [are] not receiving treatment," wrote the U.S. surgeon general in a 1999 report. Studies published in 1985, 2000, and 2001 found that 50 percent, 42 percent, and 46 percent, respectively, of people with serious mental illness were receiving no treatment for their illnesses.41 The World Health Organization's massive study on the prevalence of mental illness revealed that in developed countries 35 to 50 percent of people with serious cases had not been treated in the last year, and in poor countries, the figure was 80 percent. |
Shannon Brownlee
See book keywords and concepts |  Some might reasonably argue that Cohn and Wolfe's marketing campaign was indeed a public service to people who did not realize that their debilitating shyness was actually a mental disorder, that help was available. It undoubtedly brought some social-phobes into a doctor's office for treatment. But marketing shouldn't be confused with education, and letting drug companies define who needs to take their products is like letting your local Lexus salesperson decide what kind of car you should buy, and how often you need a new one. In 2002, physicians wrote 30. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  Certain people are reserved for any number of reasons, and shy people shouldn't be treated as if they have a mental disorder. Nor should a drug prescription be the first line of treatment, when dietary changes or psychological counseling might uncover and correct the source of the problem.
Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
Each of us has our individual quirks, many of which remain unseen by all but the people who live with us. These habits are usually our most private obsessions and compulsions, and most are innocuous expressions of occasional anxieties. |
J. Douglas Bremner
See book keywords and concepts |  It is difficult to say whether the insomnia or the mental disorder comes first. Trouble falling and staying asleep can also affect memory and cognition as well as decrease productivity and quality of life. Recent studies have shown that insomnia has an important effect on promoting a variety of poor physical health outcomes, including a link between being overweight and lack of sleep. In addition, there are some serious side effects to consider. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | A Look at Depression's Depressing Figures
At this point, it might be useful to look at some statistics, which reveal that as our consumption of processed foods has increased, so have our rates of depression: More than 57 million people 18 and older—or about one in four adults—have a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This is roughly 26 percent of the U.S. adult population.
Now see other alarming figures:
¦ Each year, anxiety disorders afflict 40 million American adults (or about 13 percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 54). |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts |  There is something called Caffeine-Induced Sleep Disorder—if you drink coffee and it keeps you up at night, you've got a mental disorder.
"Because diagnoses are not drugs, the FDA doesn't regulate them; nobody does. Nobody says 'good heavens, we're diagnosing half a million North American women as having premenstrual mental illness, doesn't that seem kind of extreme?'"
DSM diagnoses can have devastating consequences. "People are losing custody of their children because they've been given one of these labels and that fact is hauled into court," Dr. Caplan says. | | I use nutritional substances or substances that are natural to the body, either food substances or accessory food factors—such as vitamins or minerals or amino acids—as the treatment of choice for a person's mental disorder. Sometimes the vitamins may be megadoses because a person may be what we call vitamin-dependent on a particular nutrient. For example, some children who are hyperactive or having learning disorders will respond to one vitamin, for instance vitamin Bl (thiamine), and actually might get worse if you give them large doses of vitamin B6. | | If you are given a diagnosis of a mental disorder, you often cannot get disability insurance because you are considered to have a preexisting condition or you are charged exorbitant premiums.
"There should be investigations at every level of government and by private citizen groups of the way psychiatric and mental health diagnosis is done. We need to be challenging it. Like challenges to breast implants and the Dalkon shield, where the people who produced and manufactured them and the individual doctors who used them on their patients have been held liable for the harm that was done. | | Many books that I've read—in particular, Carlton Frederick's
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New Low Blood Sugar and You—say that when there is any mental disorder present, hypoglycemia is going to be right there along with it. But the medical community doesn't accept that hypoglycemia is as predominant as some nutritionists say it is because the doctors are thinking about the organic forms, which are much rarer. But with the diet that we are eating today, which is high in carbohydrates and low in basically everything good for you, hypoglycemia is manifesting itself in great numbers. | | But regrettably, Big Pharma—working with the mental health community, pediatricians, psychologists, and nurses—have pathologized normal behavior as a result of this pernicious effort, and virtually any child can be diagnosed with a mental disorder.
Dr. Lendon Smith attributed the increase in cases to the toxic overload created by environmental chemicals. He was particularly adamant about the magnesium deficiencies that have occurred in many children as a result of environmental poisoning.
"Today there are more children who are chronically depressed than there were in the past," Dr. | | On the other hand, many experts, especially over the past decade, are challenging the idea that this is a real mental disorder and objecting to the way children are being stigmatized by it. Some call ADHD a myth or a "wastebasket diagnosis" for everything else the doctors can't find another name for. Many find social and political factors at the root of the epidemic—overcrowded schools, the desire to replace family and teaching with pharmaceutical control of youngsters, and the profit motive of drug companies always in search of new markets. |
Dawson Church
See book keywords and concepts |  We're both stressed and depressed; according to the one study, 'About one in five Americans now suffers from a diag-nosable mental disorder."10
?A study entitled "Trial Lawyers, Inc.," estimates that, "the total costs, direct and indirect, of health-care litigation (including suits against doctors, drug firms, HMOs, nursing homes and so on) could be as much as $200 billion—a Hurricane Katrina every year."11
No wonder Andrew Weil, M.D. |
David Wolfe
See book keywords and concepts |  If every mental disorder is accompanied by a physical disorder (psychosomatic illness), then it must also be true that every physical disorder (enzyme deficiency) is accompanied by a mental disorder (which can be healed by an enzyme-rich diet).
Recommendations For Rapid Results
Before continuing on with more specifics on raw foods and health, I want to provide you with specific foods, juices and recipes to try now so that you may begin getting immediate results. Applying these suggestions demonstrates firsthand how raw plant foods work. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
See book keywords and concepts |  Form of Illness," was "simple mental disorder."
Still, Alzheimer recognized that the case could prove to be of scientific importance because of Auguste D.'s young age. At fifty-one, she exhibited the behavioral symptoms that one might expect to observe in a dementia patient in their seventh, eighth, or ninth decade. Along with his Italian colleague Gaetano Perusini, Alzheimer evaluated three additional cases in addition to Auguste D. (at death, aged forty-six, sixty, and sixty-five) of presenile dementia. |
Melody Petersen
See book keywords and concepts |  Shaffer was the leader of a team that reported in 1996 that nearly 21 percent of American children suffered from a mental disorder, a study that started a flurry of discussions across the nation about "a crisis" in children's mental health. The team's estimate meant that in every classroom of thirty students, six were mentally ill.
The staff of the TeenScreen program, which had its offices in Manhattan, offered to test schoolchildren regularly for a variety of mental illnesses. Their mission—to reduce teenage suicides—was a noble one. | | Kirk wrote that psychiatrists now see signs of a mental disorder in children when they "are deceitful, break rules, can't sit still or wait in lines, have trouble with math, don't pay attention to details, don't listen, don't like to do homework or lose their school assignments or pencils, or speak out of turn." American psychiatrists and drug companies, he said, are eyeing the lengthening list of disorders in the DSM "like a lumber company lusting after a redwood forest."
Indeed, at times the drug companies have blazed ahead of even the psychiatrists writing the DSM. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  The danger of getting addicted to exercise applies to a very small segment of the population, most notably girls with anorexia or anyone with a body dysmorphic syndrome, a mental disorder denned by a preoccupation with a perceived deficit in appearance.
They eat less and less, and when they exercise they become lightheaded and exhilarated, the high only reinforcing the cycle. They feel great for a short while, and they think they are on their way to looking great. Sadly, their approach will never get them there. But for the vast majority of people, this trap is a remote danger. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
See book keywords and concepts |  The next step was to convince lots of us that if we had depression or another mental disorder, a pill could fix the problem. Zoloft has been not just the nation's best-selling antidepressant in recent years; as its sales soared, it was also the most advertised antidepressant. To reach that top spot, Zoloft decided to expand its potential market by claiming Zoloft could fix more and more mental problems. So now, if you go to Zoloft's official website (www2.Zoloft. | | Advocacy groups lobby for genetic and biological views of mental disorder because if a mental illness is regarded as an organic brain disorder, then it is presumably less likely that the individual will be blamed and stigmatized for the condition. It is no wonder that people often make prodigious efforts to show that their illnesses are really physical."12 —Allan Horwitz, PhD, sociologist
"[Americans are] convinced that the origins of mental illnesses are to be found in biology, when, despite more than three decades of research, there is still no proof. . . . |
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