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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (34415)	7/1/2011 1:56:52 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

I forgot to mention that I think that my "friend" is in denial.

To: koan who wrote (34415)	7/2/2011 3:10:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

<most mental health people I have met over the years have their own mental health problems. But who doesn't? > I don't. But decades ago I noticed that myself about people who study psychology [which I read for fun at university - my sister was studying it properly], but haven't actually checked data to confirm the diagnosis. Not just mental health people but people who study psychology. I recently tried to have depression, to see what it's like, but a niece who has experienced it laughed and said "No you don't". You are right though, that a large proportion of people do have mental health problems. In recent years it seems to me to be an epidemic [in New Zealand where I see most people]. I haven't dug up data to compare modern mental health with changes over the decades and centuries, but people in the industry [a few I have spoken to casually at social functions and elsewhere] tell me that it's the same as always. Perhaps I'm just more aware of it these days. But my subjective impression is that it's worse than 40 years ago. Mqurice I mean actual diagnosed problems by actual doctors and the like, not to mention those possibly undiagnosed but who died by suicide. I'm not including paid up members of "True believers in Global Warmster Doomsterism" who are more social club members than actually mentally ill. Though swarms of them are - just on the numbers.