Untreated Mental Illness Is Global

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I would put some of that down to microwave towers, GWEN towers disrupting

ground waves, HAARP and Woodpecker transmitters burning the ionsophere,

where brainwaves feed off naturally, elf waves, scalar waves and all the

unnatural waves bombarding people's brainwaves and disrupting brain and

glandular functions. Not to mention circadian and biorhythm disruption with

electric lights and TVs. Much would come from chemicals in food, wearing

artificial fibres which blocks body electricity, and caffeine which makes

people feel they are going crazy by making brainwaves scatter in all

directions so they lose mental control. I'd say London would take a good

percentage of crazy people or people slowly cracking up and deviating from

the norm. It was like everyone was obsessed and

possessed. Microwave towers all over the UK mind controlling everyone. Tim

Rifat wrote on this. 7 years was enough for that place!!! Possibly all the

estrogen in the Thames River, used for drinking water, created hormone

imbalances. N

 

Untreated Mental Illness Is Global

 

June 2, 2004

 

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" The 10 percent of the population that can afford it get all kinds of stuff

and 90 percent can't. It's just sort of wacky. "

Ronald C. Kessler, researcher

 

 

 

(CBS/AP) A sizeable number of people around the world suffer from mental

illness, and many of the most serious cases aren't being treated, a new

study finds.

 

This treatment inequality could be rectified by a " reallocation of treatment

resources, " said the authors of the international survey published in the

June 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. This week's

journal is devoted to global health issues.

 

" The most surprising thing to me was how impairing we found the mental

disorders to be in terms of days of role functioning, and how consistently

that was true across the world, " said study author Ronald C. Kessler, a

professor of health-care policy at Harvard Medical School.

 

" I was amazed at how many other countries' people said 30 or 60 days a year

they were totally unable to function. There really are just no other

illnesses that have effects like this. It's not like a broken arm. The costs

to society are just staggering. "

 

Kessler, along with researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO) and

the WHO World Mental Health Survey Consortium, culled data from 60,643

personal interviews in 14 countries. The countries were: Colombia, Mexico,

the United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain,

Ukraine, Lebanon, Nigeria, Japan and separate surveys in Beijing and

Shanghai, China.

 

Shanghai had the lowest prevalence of any mental disorder in the prior year

(4.3 percent of the population), while the United States seemed to have the

highest, with 26.4 percent.

 

Between 30 percent (Colombia) and 80.9 percent (Nigeria) of cases were

classified as mild. Anxiety disorders were the most common in all areas

except the Ukraine. Participants who reported serious disorders said there

had been at least 30 days in the past year during which they couldn't

function.

 

Some 36 percent to 50 percent of serious cases in developed countries and 76

percent to 85 percent in less-developed countries received no treatment at

all in the year before the interview. Treatment for mild cases far exceeded

that for serious cases.

 

" Even when resources are there, you find that there are poor people who are

schizophrenic who are not getting treatment at all, and middle-class,

middle-age women in suburbia who are seeing a psychiatrist three times a

week, " Kessler said. " There's a misallocation of resources and sometimes

more so in poor countries because a lot of these countries don't have an

enormous middle class. The 10 percent of the population that can afford it

get all kinds of stuff and 90 percent can't. It's just sort of wacky. "

 

Part of the problem is the " invisible " nature of these disorders, according

to the study researchers.

 

" It's not entirely clear when these things are illnesses and when it gets to

the point when it's big enough to be an illness, so there's a lot more

discretion than in a broken-arm case, " Kessler pointed out. " And when you

have discretion in the allocation of resources, it goes in the direction of

ability to pay. "

 

Dr. Charles Goodstein, a clinical professor of psychiatry at New York

University, cautions against overinterpretation of the findings. " When you

survey 60,000 people, you're getting a sort of surface view of matters, " he

said. " Sometimes the ability to really diagnose and understand the severity

of a problem only comes back when you have an opportunity to see a patient

over time. "

 

The authors agree this particular study only set out to get a handle on the

extent and character of the problem.

 

" It's basically counting heads, but it's amazing when you do this

head-counting stuff, you can get in there and find interesting things that

have implications, " Kessler said. " Already we can see from this data, things

that need to be done and we're doing other surveys to help pinpoint how

interventions should be done. "

 

For instance, one striking characteristic of mental illness is that it tends

to start very early in life, typically at the age of 16, Kessler said. The

time to begin intervening is during the school years. This presents a unique

window of opportunity, especially in less-developed countries, he said.

 

" The first thing that happens in all these countries even before sanitation

is schools, so there's this one time in the life course where you know

exactly where they're going to be, 9 to 3. There's a person standing up in

front of the room who knows all these people, " Kessler said.

 

 

By Amanda Gardner, HealthDayNews

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