Posted on 03/04/2014 7:20:52 AM PST by BenLurkin
Ronald Kessler, a professor at Harvard Medical School and senior author of one of the studies was quoted in a Harvard press release saying, "The rate of major depression is five times as high among soldiers as civilians, intermittent explosive disorder six times as high, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) nearly 15 times as high."
Kessler's study also found almost 25% of active-duty, non-deployed Army soldiers surveyed tested positive for a mental disorder of some kind, and 11% within that subgroup also tested positive for more than one illness.
Much of the data used in the reports was taken from the Army's STARRS (Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers) survey of almost 5,500 soldiers. The project was collaboration between the U.S. Army and the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health. The survey looked at disorders that included clinical depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder and PTSD. Authors also noted that alcohol and drug use were common.
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“Geriatric Profanity Disorder”
Thank you! I thought I f***ing had Late-Onset Tourette’s or some sh*t like that.
I guess they are trying to prove that their social engineering is working.
Odds are 10 to 1 they published this unscientific “study” as a false justification to outlawing firearm ownership by veterans.
much of the stats on anything psychological today comes not only from the “conditions” “found” among those in a survey but how the symtoms comprising a clinical finding of a condition have in many cases been expanded greatlty, often now including “symptoms” that can apply to many different things, sometimes things that can be unrelated to a “mental” condition in any substantial sense - but, if looking to declare someone as having a “mental” condition (lot of $$$ for government and private services in that) then it is much easier today in many cases to find a combination of “symptons” in a person in question
Looks like the effete folks are going to bring back the draft.
If I had to serve under a shit-bird CIC like Obi, I’d be off the hook crazy as well!
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