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People are Crazy

This pretty much confirms what you've been thinking everytime you are out and about:

Crazy people outnumber alcoholics!- The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (part of the National Institutes of Health) surveyed 43,000 Americans and came up with the following data;

* 11% have some type of anxiety disorder (panic attacks, phobias).
* 9.2% have some type of mood disorder (depression, manic depressive).
* 8.5% have an alcohol dependence problem.
* 2% have a problem with drug abuse.
* 15% can be classified as having some type of personality disorder!

Sure there is some cross over or, as the professionals say, comorbidity but this confirms that there are a lot of screwed up people out on the street today.

Chris Rangel has more to say about this.

Posted by Steve on August 3, 2004