Posted on 08/24/2007 11:55:57 PM PDT by KungFuBrad
A latest national survey has found that over half of China's netizens are suffering from various mental problems although some 62 percent of them claim at the same time that they are happy on the whole anyway.
This is the result of China's first White Paper on Netizens' Health Conditions issued on Wednesday by 39.net, China's largest authoritative website on health sciences. It is the first most comprehensive health survey on netizens health situation ever conducted in China in ten years time.
The white paper came out after two months of online and offline research that involved over 150 thousand netizens, covering topics and questions on health knowledge, mental situation, sense of health, and living habits.
According to the white paper, more than 70 percent of China's netizens say they are suffering from mental problems such as bad memory, anxiety, depression, and a lack of confidence. And a similar 72 percent of them also say they are often suffering from diseases like insomnia, dizziness, joint degeneration and aches.
Meanwhile, another 53 percent of netizens believe that white collar employees who have bigger work pressures are more likely to catch mental problems.
The white paper adds, doing almost no sports and spending long times surfing online lead to the above mentioned health problems among netizens. Only 9 percent of netizens take up sports on weekends while over 40 percent stay home, surfing. And only 16 percent netizens can assure more than eight hours' sleeping daily.
At present, China has a netizen population of 162 million, with a monthly consumption of 186 yuan, or about US$25, on internet surfing.
(CRIENGLISH.com August 24, 2007)
And we have DU... I guess we are alike in some ways.
You mean surfing is NOT a sport?
Heavy metal poisoning?
I’m sure any who dissent from the party line are considered insane.
Yeah, but 20 minutes later they're sane.
Uhuh. And if we saw a CDC study claiming half of all gun owners have mental problems, we’d know what was coming next, wouldn’t we? Same thing here.
Most people probably have something that isn’t normal but in most cases it isn’t severe enough to really effect them.
Well, it’s a problem to those of us with Attention Deficit Disorder, but the problem the Chinese have is that mental illness called “Freedom of Thought.”
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