Mental Illness Very Overdone

Why Did We Stop Dreaming? The End of the World's Fair & American Progress
The War on Beauty | 4 Febr. 2025
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Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

1/5 adults living with mental illness?

Does it say more of degradation of mental health or inflation of diagnosis criteria?

The War on Beauty

@thewaronbeauty

here is the full article!

Mental Illness
NIMH | Last Updated: September 2024
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@thewaronbeauty thank you!

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@thewaronbeauty I would say that even counting "any mental illness" is a somewhat bad idea, and that the supposed prevalence for serious mental illness is evidence this is diagnosed too often.

The impairments of function are often imagined by those who earn money from providing treatment.