[marktwain]

Gee, could it be that mental illness is really quite difficult to diagnose and be definitive about? The article says that schizophrenia occurs at the same rate in all races, but a quick search on the web very quickly found a research article that said that the disparity in diagnosis could be either because one race is more susceptible or that there were social constructs involved in the misdiagnosis.

There are different susceptibilities by race after all. Just consider sickle cell anemia.

Then there are cultural norms. If cultural norms tend toward behavior consistent with a schitzophrenal diagnoses, the doctors are not racist to make that diagnosis more often with that race.

[neverdem]

Did you read the whole article?

[johnmecainrino]

I was hospitalized with schizophrenia and was forced to take depakote.

I was never depressed, had a job, had a fight with my parents and threw a picture and was hospitalized.

The drugs I was given made me depressed. I was forced to take depakote, the drug made me limp as hell.

Big pharma and doctors making a lot of money and are ruining young lives in the process.

[Intolerant in NJ]

The analysis of 134,523 mentally ill patients in a VA registry is by far the largest national sample to show broad ethnic disparities in the diagnosis of serious mental disorders in the United States...bad sample - the VA registry very probably includes only those who have had some military service - and sad as it is to say, our volunteer military tends to draw disproportionately from minorities, thus skewing the sample away from a real random selection from the entire population - more junk science in the service of political correctness.....