Why does America have the highest mental illness rate?

Question

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Answer 1

I have met people from many different countries, and I have traveled some. From my observances, I can tell you that mental illness is a VERY BIG TABOO in many of the other countries on the report. Many people would NEVER admit to it because it is considered a huge weakness. They just don't talk about it. If this was just personal surveys by non-psychiatrists, these numbers will not reflect reality. In the U.S. it is NOT as taboo to have mental illness, therefore, the much higher reported rate.

Answer 2

A) It's a large country, inhabited by many people and B) People are free to do what they want, so if a man walks around the street with no clothing on, he gets put in the mental hospital and the rate goes up a notch.
But really, on the more serious side, it may be because we live a fast-paced life. Everything in America is quick, quick, quick. The French call us the Impatient Americans, because we always want everything right away. Our society is based on a philosophy that everyone has the freedom to work as hard as they want in order to succeed. This can be very stressful, as it relates to the "every man for himself" tactic. There is also the whole "pop culture" deal, where peer pressure is on the move, and where a pair of jeans is "in" one day and "out" the next day. Because people are constantly trying to keep up with the latest fads, they may find they're having trouble focusing on everyday life without the Macy's center.

Answer 3

The Brookings Institution's 2005 "American Mental Illness & Psychological Instability Report: An Analysis of Mental Illness Trends in the United States" surmises that the exponential rise of 0.612% of cases of metal instability in the American (300-million population) 1000 per capita is due to aberrant and "taxing" cerebral assimilation of atheistically hedonistic conceptual systems, commonly deemed in the societal landscape as “liberalism”, i.e. contradictory to what appears to be an innate naturalistic norm that the psychological capacity of the cerebral cortex exhibits a propensity to assimilated, but is culturally denied.

Answer 4

chemical compounds, nutrition coloring, too lots sugar, too lots caffeine, too lots fluoride interior the water, too lots each thing interior the nutrition, MSG, fertilizer. i understand for a certainty that individuals in different countries have as lots psychological ailment as we've interior america, yet different countries do no longer hand out drugs the way america does. If a newborn is a topic in college, that youngster is placed on Ritalin while all the youngster desires is to cut back out sugar or caffeine, soft beverages, even juice which has too lots sugar in it. purple nutrition coloring has consistently been a topic with hyperactivity besides as green nutrition coloring. Sleeplessness or restlessness comes from no longer having adequate actual pastime which many human beings face recently. exercising enables melancholy besides as weight problems. Psychiatrists do no longer ask approximately diets, yet on the instant prescribe something for a guy or woman who has a topic devoid of attempting to locate the source of the difficulty. I truly have consistently had hypersensitive reactions to airborne dirt and dust, dogs dander, besides as pollen from specific timber which includes Oak. i take advantage of over the counter Zyrtec. it truly is going to treatment hypersensitive reactions besides as making one sleep properly, and that i've got consistently had a nap subject, strolling in my sleep. I truly have dealt with this in my very own way, yet have by no skill been clinically determined with melancholy, being bipolar, or having borderline character sickness. a doctor could evaluate a guy or woman's total scientific background in the past handing out something for a sickness which will have yet another underlying reason which includes eating ordinary.

Answer 5

Because the far left Liberals have promoted this idea that you don't have to be responsible for yourself. We can give you a pill to make it all better and if not, then we will hold your hand for you and keep you warm etc. instead of facing the fact that life is hard and you have to work at it. Life is not fair, you don't deserve anything that you don't work for and that there is no free ride - yet the far liberal left has promoted just the opposite and proposed that the rest of us take care of them.

Answer 6

Probably because having a mental illness does not have the stigma attached to it, as it once did and people are more willing to seek treatment than they used to be. This results in higher reported cases.

Answer 7

We are the most medically advanced country in the world and are more capable and more apt to be able to diagnose someone with a mental illness. If Africa never tested anyone for aids would it be safe to assume they have the lowest aids rate in the world?

Answer 8

The reason is because like Canadians, they [Americans] are so self-absorbed !!! When any nation practices self-indulgence, mental illness results. Why else would we abort millions of babies and call Saddam a mass murderer for? THINK about it !!!

Answer 9

Because we have the highest number of legal, moral and ethical strictures that are inherantly and DELIBERATELY psychologically damaging the the general populace.

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Answer 10

Well studies are now revealing that Alzheimers (a form of mental illness) is linked to the addition of fluoride in our water supply. We are the only nation in the world that puts additives such as fluoride in our water supply.

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