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Study Reveals That 50% of the World’s Population Will Have a Mental Health Disorder by Age 75 (scitechdaily.com)

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Researchers from The University of Queensland and Harvard Medical School, in a collaborative global study, have discovered that one in two people will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Professors John McGrath of UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute and Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medic

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, I think this has always been the case, we are just getting better at detecting and diagnosing things. Autism was only first diagnosed in 1943, Bipolar in 1952, Anxiety disorders in 1980.

40 years ago it would have been: "Greg can be a bit moody sometimes"; turns out he'd been living with undiagnosed bipolar disorder his entire life. "Charlie is a bit strange, quiet kid, but does alright in school"; well Charlie had undiagnosed autism.

Turns out when you get better at looking for things, you find more of them. (To a certain point.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Exactly. Can you imagine expecting to go through life and never have a physical ailment? Why would you expect that you'd never have a mental one? Normalizing mental health issues and their treatment is vital for a healthy society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This and also the damage of the internet era's speed and manipulation of the average person.