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38% of Europeans are suffering from a mental disorder

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Meh:
I think there are pockets of healthy family out there and that has a significance to the greater community...yet to me personally it doesnt make a difference! People are becoming more savy even if slow to catch on, I think in a couple of decades there will be a greater mass realization of basic things like anxiety and depression as being normal responses to an unhealthy situation.

About dementia, well part of the deal with this is that humans biologically were not meant to live this long anyways.
People are skewed...taking every kind of supliment and hormone replacement therapy and viagra and hair replacement etc...to always appear as young as possible. We are living a life that is artificial in context to what the human biology dictates.

sea storm:
Just what is a mental disorder anyway?  It sounds like these 38% are not happy with the status quo. Some of them probably have some serious problems but labeling them as "disordered" is laden with judgement.
This is so helpful to pharmaceutical companies. No wonder the rivers and stream of the Have part of the world are full of antidepressants.

I agree that there are pockets of healthy people. I wonder what they are doing to stay off the anti depressants. I think some of them are part of communities like the Christian community. I flit around the churches in town and can't really commit to one.
Families are breaking down at an alarming rate. At the same time more people are homeschooling and trying to raise their children in a kinder, gentler world than the school system.

If they looked at the problems of this 38% such as poverty, trauma and abuse I think there would be a different picture.

Sea storm

Hopalong:

--- Quote ---in a couple of decades there will be a greater mass realization of basic things like anxiety and depression as being normal responses to an unhealthy situation.
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Couldn't agree more, Boat.

I think this is one reason I am so strongly attracted to those "outside" the culture.
Though I'm superfically in it, my psyche's way over the line.

And I'm faking it.

Hops

Meh:

--- Quote from: sea storm on February 05, 2012, 04:53:44 PM ---I agree that there are pockets of healthy people. I wonder what they are doing to stay off the anti depressants. I think some of them are part of communities like the Christian community. I flit around the churches in town and can't really commit to one.
Families are breaking down at an alarming rate. At the same time more people are homeschooling and trying to raise their children in a kinder, gentler world than the school system.
Sea storm

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I'm going to a little church in a smallish town. Only been a few times. It's really quaint and when the pastor dismisses the children to go off to Sunday School during the service they all run down the isles smiling. I'm more agnostic-ish or open-philosophical about the practice and don't feel like I'm a hardcore participant but it gives me a reason to get out of bed on Sundays.

finding peace:
Hey Doc. G,

I have not read through every post on this thread.

IMO, if 38% were diagnosed, then these were the honest ones.

I fear/believe the count is much higher.

Maybe I am cynical given what I lived through, but I am coming to the conclusion that dysfunctional is actually functional.  And the term dysfunctional should be redefined... to functional.

And maybe,with all my limitations, fears, PTSD, ....

I am functional? 

In the "real world."

Peace

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