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30 Million Youngsters in China Have Mental Disorders

Beijing : China | Jun 10, 2010 at 9:39 AM PDT

By BMcPherson

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Information coming out of China has the number of young people with mental disorders pegged at 30 million. That's nearly the whole population of Canada. This is compared to a Chinese population of over 300 million under the age of 17.

To think that nearly one in 10 young people in China have some sort of mental derangement is very disturbing, considering that they have the world's largest standing army, are nuclear weaponized and are becoming the world's big boy with regard to global trade.

"The number 30 million is based on regional researches in recent years. Since the mental health of children must have worsened over time, the real number could be even higher," said Cui Yonghua, a child psychiatrist with the Beijing Anding Hospital."China Daily

Further reading brings about a big sigh of relief, however. Most behaviors described by the experts in China are what we in the decadent West consider normal behaviors: children under six lack concentration, pre-teens use the internet too much, teenagers race cars and most shocking a young man punched the seat of a bus.

Rest easy, the kids are behaving like kids.

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BMcPherson is based in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, and is an Anchor for Allvoices.

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Dava Castillo | almost 2 years ago

Thank you for the article Barbara.

A better way for the Chinese would be to say, "serious mental illness." This would include schizophrenia, bipolar, antisocial and borderline personality disorders, etc. as described in the DSM IV.

It's a shame to catagorize children as mentally ill who are just exhibiting normal growing behaviors. In the U.S. psychiatrists are usually very careful in diagnosing because once diagnosed, it stays with them for the rest of their life. For most serious mental illness, there are no cures, only controls and they may or may not work throughout the lifetime of an ill person.

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Alice May Jones | almost 2 years ago

Good grief, before I read on, I thought that was a shocking statistic. Yes, they're pretty normative behaviours for a young person. It's all culturally dependant.

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Andy Mathisen | almost 2 years ago

The past few decades in the west has seen a huge growth in naming many "disorders". When I was young people got old and senile and dumb or slow children were just that. We now have so many names for such a myriad of disorders..autistic..Attention-deficit..etc..etc.

I often think all these new syndromes and names for these multi-named maladies is a make-work project for psychologists, psychiatrists and pharmecutical companies!

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Andy Mathisen | almost 2 years ago

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SarahSofiaGranborg | almost 2 years ago

Now that was about to come wasn't it?!
How else can you control a society of you can't get everybody labelled in such a way that you can force them into one direction or another?!

three guesses who's behind this and 3 guesses who's gonna earn on it!

If you're interested in mental health check out safe harbor at: www.alternativementalhealth.com or/and watch the CCHR-videos on youtube. they will tell you what a load of BS this is and why we are getting labeled with all kinds of disorders!

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BMcPherson | almost 2 years ago

Thanks for your comments. Sometimes labelling a behavior leads to appropriate care. But all of you have made valid points. I just got a laugh out of children acting like children once they could move out of survival mode. It's a case of - How can you keep em down on the farm after they've seen Pariee.

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SarahSofiaGranborg | almost 2 years ago

actually it never leads to appropriate care, Barbara! I have for decades been a supporter of/worked with organizations who expose psychiatric and psychological abuse - done by the shrinks! As a matter of fact they do nothing else! And they most certainly do not have a science that works and can cure anybody or anything.

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