Rates of Common Mental Disorders Double Up

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18 percent for marijuana dependence. Participants who developed one of these disorders tended to experience others as well.
This is NOT a disorder, no matter how many times you're paid to repeat it!

David Mc of MI 11:22PM September 27, 2009

Rates have probably gone up due to the fact that society has become more independent than in the old days. People are expected to function on their own as opposed to earlier times when people were openly dependent on the help of others to progress through life.
What a person perceives as a normal life is wrought with aspirations to become something great and make a difference for oneself and his or her family. This has put tremendous pressure on a person to perform and combined with a feeling of needing to do it on one's own, this can leave a person feeling less than normal.
It is not to say that what has resulted is ok, but people have got to return to some of the ways of the past.
As the Bible says, "Two are better than one, for when one falls down, the other can help him up." it goes on to say, " a triple thread cord is not easily broken." Especially now, people have got to bond together and support one another.

Michelle Hornbeck of MT 1:52AM September 22, 2009

Driven by pharmaceutical companies and the psychiatrists they pay to do the research; bottom line, more disorders, more medications, more money.
Pretty soon everyone will be entitled to disability, special accomodations and enabled to be dependent.
Responsible, mature, productive people are getting fed up.

Hard working of OR 10:25AM September 19, 2009