What Is Driving the American Mental Health Crisis?

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whodeycin85 said:
Some studies have linked red dye 40, a synthetic petroleum-based food dye, to ADHD symptoms in children, such as hyperactivity. Other studies have shown that removing red dye 40 from a child's diet can improve their behavior and attention.
It been banned in several European countries. And UK has severe restrictions on it use
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And I have noticed it is in A LOT of products, even stuff that isn't even red.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
4) Similar to #3, obesity. It's not controversial that one feels terrible when overweight vs a healthy weight or that obesity is terrible for long-term health. However, it also destroys self-confidence, drastically lowers mate selection options, and strains relationships. Not good for mental health.
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For whatever reason (diet, antibiotics, ??) there's been a rise in autoimmune conditions in recent decades. There's research suggesting that these conditions, and depression, may be linked to the composition of bacteria, microbes in the intestinal system, the gut microbiome.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
5) An entire industry of "therapy" which validates people's intrusive thoughts, massively over diagnoses mental health problems, and forces a person to constantly think about whatever ails their life. It is not in the therapy industries' best interest to tell the vast majority of potential clients to go outside touch grass, exercise, get off social media, and get hobbies or for the small amount of people who do have serious mental problems to use promising psychedelic therapy that usually work within the first or second time; no repeat business going that route.



7) Collapse of organized religious thought. Despite all the ills of organized religion, it gave the masses a sense of community, a purpose/consequences much larger than themselves, support networks, friend networks, moral frameworks, routine, a connection to past generations, a healthy way to deal with suffering, a framework of acceptable norms, etc.
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As far as #5 I can't speak for the vast majority of therapists out there,but the first thing my current therapist told me is that her job was to not have me be a client any longer than necessary because that was not in my best interest or hers.She wants me to be able to enjoy life and handle whatever life throws at me. I feel as if I will get to that point with her.

If a therapist is using a client as a "repeat customer " so to speak, you're right. It can(not always) make things more difficult.

As far as #7 I'm thankful that it's there for me as well as the family,friends and loved ones support.


Interesting views on the subject either way!
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
To answer your question: women.

Women are driving the mental health crisis in this country because they are batcrap crazy. All of them. Every single one. Their hormones drive their behaviors...and by design their hormones fluctuate greatly every month. If the recent stats are true that I read....25% of American women are on drugs for depression and/or anxiety. Thats just the legal drugs. Just as many probably medicate with alcohol and illegal drugs. So roughly half the crazy women in this country are also on drugs.
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Acting crazy and being crazy can be two different things. Most women, and men for that matter, can control childish antisocial urges when they want. Society places a lot less emphasis on maturity than it used to.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
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If it isn't bait, you are a ****ing fool. Actually, your post is beyond insulting to our veterans.

You don't have the spine to look one of the remaining WW2 veterans in the eye and tell them that what they did (or more importantly one of their buddies) was not in the defense of freedom. I'm betting the oldest would get up out of a wheelchair and kick your ass. You should be ashamed of that post.
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I really do not know who these people are. All I see are our freedoms eroding in this country.
 
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EasternVol said:
Acting crazy and being crazy can be two different things. Most women, and men for that matter, can control childish antisocial urges when they want. Society places a lot less emphasis on maturity than it used to.
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Is it that way, or is it your perception? I'm 42. I once had this perception that adults were mature. I got to about age 25 and my parents start telling me how their peers really behave. These are older boomers with the most petty, HS behavior. My Dad was a college professor and colleagues were wild. You find out about people in the church group. It was like earth-shattering epiphany that adults don't act like adults, and it's not actually generational, it just manifests differently.

My Mom told me her 60 YO Uncle slapped his 40 YO daughter to the ground for blaspheme. This would have been in the 60's. That's an emotional child and she never looked at him that way. So yeah, I'm 42 and I still act like I'm 27 (lifestyle stuff), but I'm also not solving my problems by hitting people. Different generations. Different behavior. Same root problems.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Is it that way, or is it your perception? I'm 42. I once had this perception that adults were mature. I got to about age 25 and my parents start telling me how their peers really behave. These are older boomers with the most petty, HS behavior. My Dad was a college professor and colleagues were wild. You find out about people in the church group. It was like earth-shattering epiphany that adults don't act like adults, and it's not actually generational, it just manifests differently.

My Mom told me her 60 YO Uncle slapped his 40 YO daughter to the ground for blaspheme. This would have been in the 60's. That's an emotional child and she never looked at him that way. So yeah, I'm 42 and I still act like I'm 27 (lifestyle stuff), but I'm also not solving my problems by hitting people. Different generations. Different behavior. Same root problems.
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It's that way as far as public behavior is concerned. I iften see adults do and say things in public that were very rare 30 years ago ago.
 
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EasternVol said:
It's that way as far as public behavior is concerned. I iften see adults do and say things in public that were very rare 30 years ago ago.
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Yeah, the Karen behavior is all over the place now but we have social media that puts that in front of our noses. My Mom was a Karen on many occasions, LOL.

One time I was in this ******** private school basketball league. It was technically HS varsity but I was in 8th grade playing with 17 YO's. Most of the teams we played were bad but one team was good and they beat us by 40 or so. My Mom saw all their boys hanging out acting cool in the bleachers after the game and yelled at them for a good minute for running it up on us šŸ˜…. She would have been all over the internet.
 
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