Lifetime Prevalance of Mental Disorders...

What statistics have you heard in so far as the lifetime prevalance of mental disorders? Which statistic do you believe and why? I always tend to believe the higher estimate, because all the stigma leads to underreporting, which skews the validity of the lower estimates.

1. Actual lifetime prevalence rates for mental disorders are estimated to be between 65% and 85%.
Mental disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2. ....lifetime prevalence for any (mental) disorder, 46.4 percent.
How prevalent is mental illness in the USA

I've also heard something about 57.4%, but I can't find the website.

Also check out this link How true is the one-in-four mental health statistic? | Jamie Horder | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

What does everyone think about this???

I don't really care about statistics.

A friend of mine didn't want to become a writer because they were said to have too many mental health problems. So he became a physicist instead, and died very young. So? hmm..!!

I was obsessed with artsy creative people having more mental health problems at a time, but I just don't care anymore. I did research biographies of some and it seems to depend on their lifestyle circumstances, wealth and stable income/inherited money how long they live and how well they live.

Also, statistics don't tell me if those people lived healthy or tried to, or just ate meds.

Also, big pharma companies are trying to push meds on people big time, and often some mental health problems are over diagnosed. Seriously, in the old days people were allowed to be sad or miserable or stupid, now everyone has disorders or add or such.. I think many of these things have to do with stress in daily life and environment/pollution and unhealthy nutrition.. So if we manage to change all that, or at least work toward improving things, we can change statistics too.

Feathers said:

Also, big pharma companies are trying to push meds on people big time, and often some mental health problems are over diagnosed. Seriously, in the old days people were allowed to be sad or miserable or stupid, now everyone has disorders or add or such.. I think many of these things have to do with stress in daily life and environment/pollution and unhealthy nutrition.. So if we manage to change all that, or at least work toward improving things, we can change statistics too.

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Unfortunately our generation is too pussified to accept reality.. & this world has gone mad, people think profit and money is everything lost its meaning...

Feathers said:

I don't really care about statistics.

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Not on a general scale myself, but based on psychology, yes, take most statistics with a grain of salt. Most of these people are more then likely misdiagnosed and therefore treatment methods were not taken accordingly. Likewise, the amount of plastics, preservatives, lack of certain nutrients, etc., are too present in todays foods. I wouldn't be surprised these disorders are heavily linked to the foods we eat.