Escaped Wage Slave

Escaped Wage Slave - Wisdom No One Wants - a big fat I Told You So project - Battling IOMS (Grandpa Simpson Disease) - Don't call me 'white'. - Dance, please - mass shootings in Chicago don't count - Where's Hitler's scrotum? - NICE! - I get an 'A', Professor? - No intelligent life outside my fishbowl - Wesley Everest has died. He was afflicted with a deep sense of attachment that led to nothing. No sense calling the Sheriff, that would be wasting everyone's time.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Crazier Every Day

1 in 76:

http://www.counterpunch.org/levine04282010.html

In, 1987, prior to Prozac hitting the market and the current ubiquitous use of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, the U.S. mental illness disability rate was 1 in every 184 Americans, but by 2007 the mental illness disability rate had more than doubled to 1 in every 76 Americans. Robert Whitaker was curious as to what was causing this dramatic increase in mental illness disability. The answers are in his new book, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America (Crown Publishers, April 2010).