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One in four American women take medication for a mental disorder
Daily Mail UK ^ | 11/17/11

Posted on 11/17/2011 1:19:24 PM PST by NormsRevenge

More than one in four American women took at least one drug for conditions like anxiety and depression last year, according to an analysis of prescription data.

The report, by pharmacy benefits manager Medco Health Solutions Inc, found the use of drugs for psychiatric and behavioral disorders in all adults rose 22per cent from 2001.

The medications are most often prescribed to women aged 45 and older, but their use among men and in younger adults climbed sharply.

In total, more than 20per cent of American adults were found to be on at least one drug for mental health disorders.

A number of celebrities have gone public in recent years with their battles with mental health disorders.

They include Catherin Zeta-Jones, who was treated for a form of bipolar disorder earlier this year due to the stress of coping with her husband Michael Douglas's fight with cancer.

Model Brooke Shields admitted suffering postpartum depression after the birth of her baby in 2003, while fellow big screen icon Carrie Fisher, of Star Wars fame, told how she had turned to electroshock therapy to treat the worst symptoms of her chronic depression.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: american; bipolar; depression; medication; mentaldisorder; postpartum; women
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To: Jim Noble

Brilliant advice.

Wish I’d followed it around ten years ago. But, that’s part of life. Live and learn.


41 posted on 11/17/2011 1:51:29 PM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: mass55th

Same here. No one I know takes meds for mental disorders. Maybe they are counting someone popping a couple tylenol due to stress from an isolated depressing event. ?


42 posted on 11/17/2011 1:52:16 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: dawn53

“Some doctors hand out anti-anxiety meds as panacea instead of trying to find the real problem. You might actually have to spend time with a patient, listen carefully to symptoms, and try to find a cause of their problems, but oftentimes it’s just easier to label the issue “anxiety” and send them on their way with a bottle of benzos.”

My son-in-law is one of these cases. He suffered from debilitating anxiety and depression, and found a doctor to fix him with pills. No working on the cause. He thinks he’s all fixed now. He really enjoys the combination of alcohol with the meds. He has no problem. It’s my daughter who has the problem, according to him. He is content with his new found happiness.


43 posted on 11/17/2011 1:54:11 PM PST by Bluebird Singing
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To: NormsRevenge

That is really sad.

Whatever we are doing to raise our daughters here, we sure aren’t doing it right.


44 posted on 11/17/2011 1:55:22 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Can End Freepathons!

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Thank you, kind FReepers!

45 posted on 11/17/2011 1:56:25 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: NEMDF

You THINK no one you know takes medication for mental disorders. But look at the tone of some of the comments on this thread.

Look at the stigma here.

Do you think people admit it? I worked the front dest of an ER for 5 years ... you’d be amazed how many so-called “pillars of your community” are treating brain chemistry issues with medication.


46 posted on 11/17/2011 1:57:20 PM PST by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: sten

Most of my clients are mental health clinicians. The M.D.’s prescribe meds and sign disability paperwork for everyone that comes in and those patients seem to be of a liberal bent. The M.D.’s all voted for Obama. Most of the patients seen by the Ph.D.’s refuse meds and those I have spoken with are very politically conservative. None of my Ph.D. clients voted for Obama but I think this is the exception rather than the rule.


47 posted on 11/17/2011 1:58:06 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Whatever we are doing to raise our daughters here, we sure aren’t doing it right.

We've had 40 years of girls being told that men suck and women can and should do it all.

Think that the historically high rate of heart disease in women 30-50 we see today is just a coincidence? Not on your life.

48 posted on 11/17/2011 1:59:06 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: montyspython

Not any more...


49 posted on 11/17/2011 2:00:38 PM PST by null and void (MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
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To: mass55th
I’m a female, and know more than four other women, and none of them are on meds for mental disorders.

Then, perhaps it's you that should be?

50 posted on 11/17/2011 2:03:03 PM PST by null and void (MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
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To: NormsRevenge

51 posted on 11/17/2011 2:04:09 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Women have been forced out of their normal biological role are mothers, caregivers and homemakers and suddenly thrust into being providers. It’s not surprising they need meds to adjust to an unnatural role.


52 posted on 11/17/2011 2:04:50 PM PST by Hacklehead (Income equality is incompatible with a free society.)
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To: NormsRevenge
The medications are most often prescribed to women aged 45 and older, but their use among men and in younger adults climbed sharply.

Libtards are going to find a way to use this to bash conservatism and capitalism

53 posted on 11/17/2011 2:07:04 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Winstons Julia

After I posted, I did remember one young woman I know, whose father died during the summer at age 54, and she was taking something for a few weeks there.

I also cannot help but think that SOME of those who are chronically taking meds do so, because it is easy to get more, and their doctors like the fast office visits for renewing the prescriptions. These women may NOT even be depressed, but have fallen into line with all of the advertising, etc., and THINK they are depressed for what was really a short-term stressor. ?? Just my 2 cents....


54 posted on 11/17/2011 2:09:01 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: NormsRevenge

NOT
GOING
THERE . . .


55 posted on 11/17/2011 2:09:44 PM PST by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: null and void
"Then, perhaps it's you that should be?"

Too late for me. At 64, I lost my mind years ago, so meds wouldn't help me now ;-)

56 posted on 11/17/2011 2:10:01 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: NormsRevenge

That’s why my older brother is happily married to a Mexican lady.


57 posted on 11/17/2011 2:14:58 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: mass55th

*shrug* they help me...


58 posted on 11/17/2011 2:17:13 PM PST by null and void (MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
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To: humblegunner
You have a point!
59 posted on 11/17/2011 2:19:49 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (*Philosophy lesson 117-22b: Anyone who demands to be respected is undeserving of it.*)
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To: blueunicorn6

Well reality doesn’t always comport well to whole fractions.

If the numbers were 0.25000 then it would be EXACTLY one in four.

But if the numbers were 0.25345 then it would be MORE THAN one in four.

A better way of saying it would be ‘slightly more than one in four’ - if you are not into the whole brevity thing.


60 posted on 11/17/2011 2:21:31 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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