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> Autism - Depression, ADD, and similar disorders My personal impression is that the rise of mental conditions is an increase in diagnosis, not occurrence. An awful lot of people who, just a few decades ago, would have been dismissed as lazy, stupid, whiny, or the all-purpose "crazy" are actually starting to receive recognition and treatment. That's a good thing.
> My personal impression is that the rise of mental conditions is an increase in diagnosis, not occurrence. Robert Whitaker [1] has looked into the matter, and proposes that standard treatments take an episodic disease and make it chronic. [1] Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America - http://www.madinamerica.com/product/62043/ My step-brother hat…
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#151I'm sorry for whatever happened to your brother. Psychology is sadly not an exact science yet. But when I stopped taking my drugs, I was basically nonfunctional for months. You can't generalize from one data point.