Meldon wrote:
> "Dustbin"  wrote in message
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>>Meldon wrote:
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>>>"Dustbin" 
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>>>>ilya_shambat2004{at}yahoo.com wrote:
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>>>>Sorry mate, but this is not new.
>>>>
>>>>If you check out some of the anti-psychiatric
>>>>writings of the sixties and seventies you will
>>>>find similar remarks.
>>>>
>>>>The basic point is that many pspychiatric
>>>>patients have found themselves the emotional
>>>>dustbins of family and society and eventually
>>>>show signs of breaking down.
>>>>
>>>>Some writers have even refrred to clinical
>>>>psychologists and psychiatrists as carrying out
>>>>a kind of garbage collection service for society.
>>>>
>>>>D.
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>>>
>>>People in those situations are extremely vulnerable. If someone makes
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> even a
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>>>subtle error somewhere along the line the results can be more harmful
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> than
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>>>beneficial. On larger scale, society is the patient and a percentage of
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> the
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>>>people unfortunate enough to be in that position represents the level or
>>>severity of sickness of the larger patient.
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>>>
>>
>>Certainly. In fact, in recent years I have been
>>using the increase in psychiatric problems to
>>try and get people to understand that the
>>society is seriuously problematic and that you
>>cannot blame it on genes when the numbers are
>>rising dramatically.
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>
> Splendid work!
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>
>>For example; throughout
>>most of the twnetieth century, the mean
>>incidence of those seeking some degree of
>>psychiatric assistance was around 10% (7% males
>>14% female). Since that demented freak thatcher
>>got her clammy claws on power and the brutality
>>of the capitalists has increased dramatically,
>>that figure has steadily risen until now it is
>>around 20% and some psychiatrists have been
>>predicting a figure of 25% in the near future.
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>
> Surely mental health statistics is good indicator of the health of a
> society. This just seems common sense.
>
It wouls seems so.

In its earlier years the Labour Party considered
mental illness to be a product of capitalism.
While this is an over-simplification, there is a
sizeable chunk of truth in it. As capitalism has
gained headway in the last 25 years the problems
have mounted.

All the increase in problems has occurred in
those 25 years. Throughout the twentieth century
the average remained fair stable at 10% (7% men,
14% women).

D.
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>
>>That the inhuman stresses of the capitalist
>>system was the cause of psychiatric breakdown
>>was a centre piece for the anti-psychiatric
>>movement throughout much of the sixties and
>>seventies. I think this is being substantiated
>>by the present trend.
>>
>>D.
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>
> Indeed but I would hasten to add, that capitalism is not the only system
> who's members are suffering mental breakdown. Further, mental health numbers
> may serve as a comparative measure of different political systems' treatment
> of it's members.
>
> Thanks for decent input.
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