With 1 in 3 Americans having some sort of mental disability, the overwhelming numbers has gotten a Medical Assistant to look into this matter in more detail to come up with this informative graphic about what is happening in the U.S. today. It has become a growing issue in both children and adults, searching for answers in medication, therapy, and as far as ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy).
[Source: medicalassistantschool.org]
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All these mental disorders and not ONE test to confirm whether or not a person actually has the disorder. If you went to five different psychiatrists with the same symptoms, you’d have at least five DIFFERENT mental disorders and five different prescriptions.
Cancer and STD’s have blood tests. If you suspect that you have a mental disorder, ask for a conclusive test before accepting a diagnosis.
Two things:
1: Your source list is unreadable, due to the color and size.
2: You say “one in seventeen has a serious mental illness”. Are you trying to say that the other 16 people who have a mental illness should not consider their disorder serious? You’re clearly referring to the ‘severe mental illness’ category, but people with OCD or depression will very rarely call their disorder ‘not serious’. You might want to consider editing that one part
Nice article, it provokes our awareness about mental illness. I have eating disorder so might as well start to clean up right now.
@Bildad: Jesus, you’re an ignorant motherfucker aren’t you? You’re not going to get diagnosed with 5 different illnesses if you see 5 different psychiatrists – that’s what they have standardized diagnostic manuals for.
You can’t ask for a conclusive medical test for a mental illness because there’s no such fucking thing. Are you really saying that because you can’t do a blood test, that mental illnesses are not valid? You want to tell the soldiers coming back from overseas that their PTSD isn’t real because you can’t detect it in a blood workup? You think paranoid schizophrenics are just hallucinating for the hell of it?
You know, epilepsy used to have the same bullshit stigma for YEARS. Despite the condition being documented for centuries, people believed it was a purely a psychological phenomenon. It took the advent of modern brain imaging techniques to convince the general public that it was a real medical condition.
There are plenty of things you can’t find in a blood test. That’s why we let trained medical professionals do the diagnosing, not some jackass on the internet.