http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/psychiatric-disorders/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/psychiatric-disorders/comment-page-1/#comment-155177 Breakingthecycles.com – Changing the Conversations » Blog Archive » Links This Week Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:05:19 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=6553#comment-155177 [...] Deepak Chopra’s iPhone app: Stress Free / Stress Reduction, Meditation, Wellness, Mind Body Read more… for How Common Are Psychiatric Disorders? These large studies have provided important insights into the nature of psychiatric disorders in the United States…the data from the NCS and NCS-R obtained from 1990 to 1992 and 2001 to 2003, respectively, indicate that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the adult US population (ages 18-54 years) is estimated to be about 30% (i.e., about one in three persons has a diagnosable psychiatric disorder during those periods).  Based on other data, the prevalence may approach 50% when considered from a lifetime perspective (i.e., one-half of the US population is likely to have a psychiatric disorder at some point in their lives).  Those are staggering figures and are a strong indicator that almost every person in the United States has some contact, knowingly or not, with persons with mental illness. Read more… [...] [...] Deepak Chopra’s iPhone app: Stress Free / Stress Reduction, Meditation, Wellness, Mind Body Read more… for How Common Are Psychiatric Disorders? These large studies have provided important insights into the nature of psychiatric disorders in the United States…the data from the NCS and NCS-R obtained from 1990 to 1992 and 2001 to 2003, respectively, indicate that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the adult US population (ages 18-54 years) is estimated to be about 30% (i.e., about one in three persons has a diagnosable psychiatric disorder during those periods).  Based on other data, the prevalence may approach 50% when considered from a lifetime perspective (i.e., one-half of the US population is likely to have a psychiatric disorder at some point in their lives).  Those are staggering figures and are a strong indicator that almost every person in the United States has some contact, knowingly or not, with persons with mental illness. Read more… [...]

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