The U.S. ranks 1st in anxiety disorders
According to a presentation to the IFPE Congress in Vienna, Austria on April 18, 2009, on the results of World Health Organization’s World Mental Health Survey, 19% of Americans experience a clinical anxiety disorder in a given twelve-month period, which makes the United States rank first in that category.
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It appears that we have forgotten the family and the importance of being content of what we have, as opposed to always wanting more. Worry is the “interest paid on a loan not yet made”. We have turned away from what got us first long ago and we are reaping what we have sown. Sadly we are getting worse each year.
Over diagnosed, over medicated, and often inappropriately treated with drugs that cause iatrogenic dependencies, in my humble opinion. Never listed as a cause of death.
Not a meaningful statistic given the vast range of mental health care which produces the diagnostic.
Perhaps, but the fact that the statistic exists suggests to me that someone has decided that it might be meaningful.
I was in the USA recently and amazed at the level of drug advertising on TV. Drugs for headache, heartburn on and on. Ads for patients to influence doctors on the drugs to prescribe. A trip to the supermarket shows aisles and aisles of meds. There is a drug for every problem it seems.
YEAAH! WE’RE FINALLY #1 AT SOMETHING!!
It’s not surprising to me at all. We stress ourselves out with how much we work and what our culture expects from us. And yes, there’s a ridiculous amount of drugs out there. We use them to solve our problems instead of something healthier.
I agree w/ Richard above – he said it succinctly. Of course it’s all very complicated and books are written on the subject. I would add that the “programming of people” by repetitively tell ’em thru non-stop marketing & advertising has established American’s deeply rooted buy-in to the Master Plan “How to Be an American”. All this to comply with the requirement that corporate earnings MUST ONLY increase at ANY cost to American society driven by greed. I also agree that it WILL ONLY get worse because there’s not enough smart & influential people to change the mass movement of people toward having things. Our democracy, momentum, human nature/greed & other things demand it and this is the result.