Re: 1 in 5 young Americans has personality disorder

[Guest guest]



Sounds like invasive BS to me. the psychiatric industry is getting the

government to fund and ok screening of the citizens for supposed mental

illness. The only people that should be screened and locked up are the

psychiatrists/drug companies and government officials that would even

contemplate this unconstitutional atrocity.

People who are mentally ill hate the drugs, hate being locked up and usually

could use a good physical and proper real medical treatment before ever getting

a bogus quack list of questions to determine their state of mind.

1 in 5 young Americans has personality disorder

The study was funded with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York Psychiatric Institute.In the study, trained interviewers, but not psychiatrists, questioned participants about symptoms. They used an assessment tool similar to criteria doctors use to diagnose mental illness.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.Experts praised the study's scope — face-to-face interviews about numerous disorders with more than 5,000 young people ages 19 to 25 — and said it spotlights a problem college administrators need to address.Study co-author Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute called the widespread lack of treatment particularly worrisome. He said it should alert not only "students and parents, but also deans and people who run college mental health services about the need to extend access to treatment."Particularly vulnerableCounting substance abuse, the study found that nearly half of young people surveyed have some sort of psychiatric condition, including students and non-students.Personality disorders were the second most common problem behind drug or alcohol abuse as a single category. The disorders include obsessive, anti-social and paranoid behaviors that are not mere quirks but actually interfere with ordinary functioning.The study authors noted that recent tragedies such as fatal shootings at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech have raised awareness about the prevalence of mental illness on college campuses.They also suggest that this age group might be particularly vulnerable."For many, young adulthood is characterized by the pursuit of greater educational opportunities and employment prospects, development of personal relationships, and for some, parenthood," the authors said. These circumstances, they said, can result in stress that triggers the start or recurrence of psychiatric problems.According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated 1 in four U.S. adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.Highlighting a needThe study was released Monday in Archives of General Psychiatry. It was based on interviews with 5,092 young adults in 2001 and 2002.Olfson said it took time to analzye the data, including weighting the results to extrapolate national numbers. But the authors said the results would probably hold true today.The study was funded with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York Psychiatric Institute.Dr. Sharon Hirsch, a University of Chicago psychiatrist not involved in the study, praised it for raising awareness about the problem and the high numbers of affected people who don't get help.Imagine if more than 75 percent of diabetic college students didn't get treatment, Hirsch said. "Just think about what would be happening on our college campuses."The results highlight the need for mental health services to be housed with other medical services on college campuses, to erase the stigma and make it more likely that people will seek help, she said.In the study, trained interviewers, but not psychiatrists, questioned participants about symptoms. They used an assessment tool similar to criteria doctors use to diagnose mental illness.Dr. Jerald Kay, a psychiatry professor at State University and chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's college mental health committee, said the assessment tool is considered valid and more rigorous than self-reports of mental illness. He was not involved in the study.Personality disorders showed up in similar numbers among both students and non-students, including the most common one, obsessive compulsive personality disorder. About 8 percent of young adults in both groups had this illness, which can include an extreme preoccupation with details, rules, orderliness and perfectionism.Kay said the prevalence of personality disorders was higher than he would expect and questioned whether the condition might be overdiagnosed.All good students have a touch of "obsessional" personality that helps them work hard to achieve. But that's different from an obsessional disorder that makes people inflexible and controlling and interferes with their lives, he explained.Obsessive compulsive personality disorder differs from the better known OCD, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, which features repetitive actions such as hand-washing to avoid germs.OCD is thought to affect about 2 percent of the general population. The study didn't examine OCD separately but grouped it with all anxiety disorders, seen in about 12 percent of college-aged people in the survey.The overall rate of other disorders was also pretty similar among college students and non-students.Substance abuse, including drug addiction, alcoholism and other drinking that interferes with school or work, affected nearly one-third of those in both groups.Slightly more college students than non-students were problem drinkers — 20 percent versus 17 percent. And slightly more non-students had drug problems — nearly 7 percent versus 5 percent.In both groups, about 8 percent had phobias and 7 percent had depression.Bipolar disorder was slightly more common in non-students, affecting almost 5 percent versus about 3 percent of students.-- GoldBerkeley, CA

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Which is why I posted it.I was hoping someone might have the skinny on the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York Psychiatric Institute, neither of which I recall hearing about before. Of course NIH I am familiar with.Yes, I thought the idea of determining personality health by means of an assessment questionnaire was ludicrous.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:



Sounds like invasive BS to me. the psychiatric industry is getting the

government to fund and ok screening of the citizens for supposed mental

illness. The only people that should be screened and locked up are the

psychiatrists/drug companies and government officials that would even

contemplate this unconstitutional atrocity.

People who are mentally ill hate the drugs, hate being locked up and usually

could use a good physical and proper real medical treatment before ever getting

a bogus quack list of questions to determine their state of mind.

1 in 5 young Americans has personality disorder

The study was funded with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York Psychiatric Institute.In the study, trained interviewers, but not psychiatrists, questioned participants about symptoms. They used an assessment tool similar to criteria doctors use to diagnose mental illness.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.Experts praised the study's scope — face-to-face interviews about numerous disorders with more than 5,000 young people ages 19 to 25 — and said it spotlights a problem college administrators need to address.Study co-author Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute called the widespread lack of treatment particularly worrisome. He said it should alert not only " students and parents, but also deans and people who run college mental health services about the need to extend access to treatment. " Particularly vulnerableCounting substance abuse, the study found that nearly half of young people surveyed have some sort of psychiatric condition, including students and non-students.Personality disorders were the second most common problem behind drug or alcohol abuse as a single category. The disorders include obsessive, anti-social and paranoid behaviors that are not mere quirks but actually interfere with ordinary functioning.The study authors noted that recent tragedies such as fatal shootings at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech have raised awareness about the prevalence of mental illness on college campuses.They also suggest that this age group might be particularly vulnerable. " For many, young adulthood is characterized by the pursuit of greater educational opportunities and employment prospects, development of personal relationships, and for some, parenthood, " the authors said. These circumstances, they said, can result in stress that triggers the start or recurrence of psychiatric problems.According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated 1 in four U.S. adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.Highlighting a needThe study was released Monday in Archives of General Psychiatry. It was based on interviews with 5,092 young adults in 2001 and 2002.Olfson said it took time to analzye the data, including weighting the results to extrapolate national numbers. But the authors said the results would probably hold true today.The study was funded with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York Psychiatric Institute.Dr. Sharon Hirsch, a University of Chicago psychiatrist not involved in the study, praised it for raising awareness about the problem and the high numbers of affected people who don't get help.Imagine if more than 75 percent of diabetic college students didn't get treatment, Hirsch said. " Just think about what would be happening on our college campuses. " The results highlight the need for mental health services to be housed with other medical services on college campuses, to erase the stigma and make it more likely that people will seek help, she said.In the study, trained interviewers, but not psychiatrists, questioned participants about symptoms. They used an assessment tool similar to criteria doctors use to diagnose mental illness.Dr. Jerald Kay, a psychiatry professor at State University and chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's college mental health committee, said the assessment tool is considered valid and more rigorous than self-reports of mental illness. He was not involved in the study.Personality disorders showed up in similar numbers among both students and non-students, including the most common one, obsessive compulsive personality disorder. About 8 percent of young adults in both groups had this illness, which can include an extreme preoccupation with details, rules, orderliness and perfectionism.Kay said the prevalence of personality disorders was higher than he would expect and questioned whether the condition might be overdiagnosed.All good students have a touch of " obsessional " personality that helps them work hard to achieve. But that's different from an obsessional disorder that makes people inflexible and controlling and interferes with their lives, he explained.Obsessive compulsive personality disorder differs from the better known OCD, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, which features repetitive actions such as hand-washing to avoid germs.OCD is thought to affect about 2 percent of the general population. The study didn't examine OCD separately but grouped it with all anxiety disorders, seen in about 12 percent of college-aged people in the survey.The overall rate of other disorders was also pretty similar among college students and non-students.Substance abuse, including drug addiction, alcoholism and other drinking that interferes with school or work, affected nearly one-third of those in both groups.Slightly more college students than non-students were problem drinkers — 20 percent versus 17 percent. And slightly more non-students had drug problems — nearly 7 percent versus 5 percent.In both groups, about 8 percent had phobias and 7 percent had depression.Bipolar disorder was slightly more common in non-students, affecting almost 5 percent versus about 3 percent of students.-- GoldBerkeley, CA

-- GoldBerkeley, CA

[Guest guest]



the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention doesn't take much looking to see conflicts.

J. Mann, Shaffer, Pfizer and J & J execs, Universities that do pharma drug studies etc etc.

Oh, and Joan Rivers.....

http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage & page_id=7E69395B-D2D1-CEAC-E5BE2B9CC93F157B

New York Psychiatric Institute AKA New York State Psychiatric Institute

http://www.cchr.org/press_room/press_releases/Sex-Busted_Psychiatrists_Speak_at_APA_Convention.html

On May 7, 2008 Dr. Jack Gorman, former president and psychiatrist-in-chief of Harvard University’s McLean Hospital and former director of Mental Health Clinical Research Center at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, is giving a lecture under the convention section titled, “Managing Behavior in Patients and Psychiatrists.†On September 27, 2007, the New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct reported Gorman was found guilty of negligence on more than one occasion for engaging in “inappropriate sexual contact with a patient.†A month later he also surrendered his right to practice medicine in Massachusetts, following a state investigation into suspected sexual abuses at McLean Hospital.

Gorman effectively resigned from McLean following a threat of lawsuit by the New York patient with whom he’d had the sexual contact. In 1999, he also resigned as Deputy Director of New York's Psychiatric Institute (NYPSI) following the New York Post’s exposure of his undisclosed conflicts of interests with drug companies. Between April 1, 1997 and March 31, 1998 Gorman had received over $140,000 from pharmaceutical companies that he had failed to disclose to the Institute. During that time, Gorman received speaking fees, travel, board memberships and consulting deals from 8 drug companies, including & , Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, Solvay, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Eli Lilly, Wyeth-Ayerst and Kline Beecham that were sponsoring studies conducted on state time at the NYPSI. This outside income more than doubled his annual state salary of $115,378.

Some of the studies being done at New York Psychiatric Institute

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00219349?term=New+York+State+Psychiatric+Institute & rank=3

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00360724?term=New+York+State+Psychiatric+Institute & rank=5

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00279409?term=New+York+State+Psychiatric+Institute & rank=8 antipsychotics for adhd!! Phase II

1 in 5 young Americans has personality disorder

The study was funded with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York Psychiatric Institute.In the study, trained interviewers, but not psychiatrists, questioned participants about symptoms. They used an assessment tool similar to criteria doctors use to diagnose mental illness.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.Experts praised the study's scope — face-to-face interviews about numerous disorders with more than 5,000 young people ages 19 to 25 — and said it spotlights a problem college administrators need to address.Study co-author Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute called the widespread lack of treatment particularly worrisome. He said it should alert not only "students and parents, but also deans and people who run college mental health services about the need to extend access to treatment."Particularly vulnerableCounting substance abuse, the study found that nearly half of young people surveyed have some sort of psychiatric condition, including students and non-students.Personality disorders were the second most common problem behind drug or alcohol abuse as a single category. The disorders include obsessive, anti-social and paranoid behaviors that are not mere quirks but actually interfere with ordinary functioning.The study authors noted that recent tragedies such as fatal shootings at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech have raised awareness about the prevalence of mental illness on college campuses.They also suggest that this age group might be particularly vulnerable."For many, young adulthood is characterized by the pursuit of greater educational opportunities and employment prospects, development of personal relationships, and for some, parenthood," the authors said. These circumstances, they said, can result in stress that triggers the start or recurrence of psychiatric problems.According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated 1 in four U.S. adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.Highlighting a needThe study was released Monday in Archives of General Psychiatry. It was based on interviews with 5,092 young adults in 2001 and 2002.Olfson said it took time to analzye the data, including weighting the results to extrapolate national numbers. But the authors said the results would probably hold true today.The study was funded with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York Psychiatric Institute.Dr. Sharon Hirsch, a University of Chicago psychiatrist not involved in the study, praised it for raising awareness about the problem and the high numbers of affected people who don't get help.Imagine if more than 75 percent of diabetic college students didn't get treatment, Hirsch said. "Just think about what would be happening on our college campuses."The results highlight the need for mental health services to be housed with other medical services on college campuses, to erase the stigma and make it more likely that people will seek help, she said.In the study, trained interviewers, but not psychiatrists, questioned participants about symptoms. They used an assessment tool similar to criteria doctors use to diagnose mental illness.Dr. Jerald Kay, a psychiatry professor at State University and chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's college mental health committee, said the assessment tool is considered valid and more rigorous than self-reports of mental illness. He was not involved in the study.Personality disorders showed up in similar numbers among both students and non-students, including the most common one, obsessive compulsive personality disorder. About 8 percent of young adults in both groups had this illness, which can include an extreme preoccupation with details, rules, orderliness and perfectionism.Kay said the prevalence of personality disorders was higher than he would expect and questioned whether the condition might be overdiagnosed.All good students have a touch of "obsessional" personality that helps them work hard to achieve. But that's different from an obsessional disorder that makes people inflexible and controlling and interferes with their lives, he explained.Obsessive compulsive personality disorder differs from the better known OCD, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, which features repetitive actions such as hand-washing to avoid germs.OCD is thought to affect about 2 percent of the general population. The study didn't examine OCD separately but grouped it with all anxiety disorders, seen in about 12 percent of college-aged people in the survey.The overall rate of other disorders was also pretty similar among college students and non-students.Substance abuse, including drug addiction, alcoholism and other drinking that interferes with school or work, affected nearly one-third of those in both groups.Slightly more college students than non-students were problem drinkers — 20 percent versus 17 percent. And slightly more non-students had drug problems — nearly 7 percent versus 5 percent.In both groups, about 8 percent had phobias and 7 percent had depression.Bipolar disorder was slightly more common in non-students, affecting almost 5 percent versus about 3 percent of students.-- GoldBerkeley, CA -- GoldBerkeley, CA

[Guest guest]



It's important to understand that is a University or Institute manages

to come up with a new use for an old drug then they can patient it for

that purpose and make a ton of money.

Take the old stimulant methylphenidate (Ritalin), seveeral companies

came out with "time-release" mechanisms and now we have a new

massive profit stream to those companies. Metadate, Concerta, Focalin etc.

All an old drug repackaged and sold at a premium.

So when you see a university playing with old drugs for "conditions" especially

psychiatric conditions which are rather subjective and questionable to drug

in the first place, you are seeing profit as the motive, period.

If this isn't conflicted then I don't know what is. Biederman is jus tthe tip of the iceberg.

Jim

1 in 5 young Americans has personality disorder

The study was funded with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York Psychiatric Institute.In the study, trained interviewers, but not psychiatrists, questioned participants about symptoms. They used an assessment tool similar to criteria doctors use to diagnose mental illness.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.Experts praised the study's scope — face-to-face interviews about numerous disorders with more than 5,000 young people ages 19 to 25 — and said it spotlights a problem college administrators need to address.Study co-author Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute called the widespread lack of treatment particularly worrisome. He said it should alert not only "students and parents, but also deans and people who run college mental health services about the need to extend access to treatment."Particularly vulnerableCounting substance abuse, the study found that nearly half of young people surveyed have some sort of psychiatric condition, including students and non-students.Personality disorders were the second most common problem behind drug or alcohol abuse as a single category. The disorders include obsessive, anti-social and paranoid behaviors that are not mere quirks but actually interfere with ordinary functioning.The study authors noted that recent tragedies such as fatal shootings at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech have raised awareness about the prevalence of mental illness on college campuses.They also suggest that this age group might be particularly vulnerable."For many, young adulthood is characterized by the pursuit of greater educational opportunities and employment prospects, development of personal relationships, and for some, parenthood," the authors said. These circumstances, they said, can result in stress that triggers the start or recurrence of psychiatric problems.According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated 1 in four U.S. adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.Highlighting a needThe study was released Monday in Archives of General Psychiatry. It was based on interviews with 5,092 young adults in 2001 and 2002.Olfson said it took time to analzye the data, including weighting the results to extrapolate national numbers. But the authors said the results would probably hold true today.The study was funded with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York Psychiatric Institute.Dr. Sharon Hirsch, a University of Chicago psychiatrist not involved in the study, praised it for raising awareness about the problem and the high numbers of affected people who don't get help.Imagine if more than 75 percent of diabetic college students didn't get treatment, Hirsch said. "Just think about what would be happening on our college campuses."The results highlight the need for mental health services to be housed with other medical services on college campuses, to erase the stigma and make it more likely that people will seek help, she said.In the study, trained interviewers, but not psychiatrists, questioned participants about symptoms. They used an assessment tool similar to criteria doctors use to diagnose mental illness.Dr. Jerald Kay, a psychiatry professor at State University and chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's college mental health committee, said the assessment tool is considered valid and more rigorous than self-reports of mental illness. He was not involved in the study.Personality disorders showed up in similar numbers among both students and non-students, including the most common one, obsessive compulsive personality disorder. About 8 percent of young adults in both groups had this illness, which can include an extreme preoccupation with details, rules, orderliness and perfectionism.Kay said the prevalence of personality disorders was higher than he would expect and questioned whether the condition might be overdiagnosed.All good students have a touch of "obsessional" personality that helps them work hard to achieve. But that's different from an obsessional disorder that makes people inflexible and controlling and interferes with their lives, he explained.Obsessive compulsive personality disorder differs from the better known OCD, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, which features repetitive actions such as hand-washing to avoid germs.OCD is thought to affect about 2 percent of the general population. The study didn't examine OCD separately but grouped it with all anxiety disorders, seen in about 12 percent of college-aged people in the survey.The overall rate of other disorders was also pretty similar among college students and non-students.Substance abuse, including drug addiction, alcoholism and other drinking that interferes with school or work, affected nearly one-third of those in both groups.Slightly more college students than non-students were problem drinkers — 20 percent versus 17 percent. And slightly more non-students had drug problems — nearly 7 percent versus 5 percent.In both groups, about 8 percent had phobias and 7 percent had depression.Bipolar disorder was slightly more common in non-students, affecting almost 5 percent versus about 3 percent of students.-- GoldBerkeley, CA -- GoldBerkeley, CA

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If we allow the "EXPERTS" to conduct testing on our young adults they would find a problem with everyone of them. Because they are judging them on the 'IDEAL". There is no such thing as an ideal person, young or old. I work with young teens, as a sub teacher. I also have had three of my own. Their friends have been known to hang around my house. I can ask one simple question, and get a different answer form all of them. Most of these young people have great parents, but they will rebel, and sometimes, do it in poler opposite of their upbringing. Preteen, teens and young adults have personality disorders by way of just being who they are. From young girls who think sex is the answer to love. To boys who "sew their wild oats", and share their adventures with friends. From those, few who are friends with their parents,

and drink and smoke with them. To some with sticked parents, who don't have much freedom. From the ones who are indulged, and have the top brand of everything, from cars to Channel pocketbooks. To those who have had to, or been expected, to work since they were sixteen or younger. We cant forget the pot smoking crowed, or even those we have lost to more serious drugs. From each of these groups, we will find things we agree or disagree with. We wonder why indulged young get involved with drugs, or the pothead becomes a priest. How many times have we heard someone say, "I didn't expect (that kid) would have turned out that way". I am always surprised, when I meet someone from my school, and find out they are doing something counter opposite to the personality I knew back then. Every town has their groups, their young, who are trying to find direction. Some will get it early, others take some time. We cannot allow our

brains to be judged on a scale of perfection. This may be fine for "best in breed" at the local dog show, but not for us. We are supposed to be above this.M k.