And yet more ways we are being screwed
Vin Suprynowicz gives us yet another example of how we are being screwed by liberal ‘feel-good’ programs
“Psychiatric disorder” sounds like it means “crazy,” and it’s meant to. But even claiming 46 percent of our young people are “crazy” wouldn’t pass the laugh test, because we all know what “crazy” means, and we all know 46 percent of our young people are not running naked through the streets, hooting like apes, nor are they convinced the CIA and/or the space aliens are controlling their actions through small radio receivers implanted in their bodies.
But let these seekers after tax and insurance moneys use the term “psychiatric disorder,” and we all pull on our chins and ask “Really?”
The most common “psychiatric disorders” reported by the Columbia University survey of 5,000 young people — technically, the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions — were “alcohol abuse” (20.7 percent of college kids), “nicotine dependence” (20.7 percent of non-college kids) and other non-specified “personality disorders,” which combined strike slightly less than 20 percent of this populace.
Can you imagine? Our young adults are drinking, smoking, and occasionally acting boorish and insensitive. And here we thought al-Qaida was a threat to our way of life!
Go read it, he nails it right on the head.
