En este video Sir Ken Robinson comenta acerca del ADHD, entre otras cosas. Me parece relevante porque es un ejemplo mas de como la tendencia actual de diagnosticar como enfermedades características que antes se consideraban normales acaban afectando a la gente, en este caso a los niños.
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Casi 40% de europeos sufren enfermedades mentales - ABC Color
LONDRES. Los europeos están asediados por las enfermedades mentales y neurológicas, y casi 165 millones de personas, o el 38 por ciento de la población del continente, sufren cada año un desorden cerebral.
Esto es según un gran estudio difundido el lunes. Dado que sólo alrededor de un tercio de los casos reciben la terapia o medicación necesaria, las enfermedades mentales suponen enormes costos económicos y sociales -calculados en cientos de miles de millones de euros- ya que los pacientes no suelen poder ir a trabajar y sus relaciones se resienten."Los trastornos mentales se han convertido en el mayor desafío para la salud de la Europa del siglo XXI", dijeron los autores del estudio. Al mismo tiempo, algunas grandes compañías farmacéuticas están retirando las inversiones en investigación sobre cómo funciona el cerebro y cómo afecta al comportamiento, lo que hace recaer la responsabilidad de financiar los estudios en neurociencia sobre gobiernos y organizaciones benéficas.
"El inmenso desfase en el tratamiento (...) para los desórdenes mentales tiene que cerrarse", dijo Hans Ulrich Wittchen, director del Instituto de Psicología Clínica y Psicoterapia de la Universidad de Dresde y principal investigador del estudio europeo. "Los pocos que reciben tratamiento lo hacen con considerable retraso, de un promedio de varios años, y rara vez con las terapias apropiadas y actualizadas", agregó.
Wittchen lideró un estudio de tres años que cubrió 30 países europeos -los 27 de la Unión Europea más Suiza, Islandia y Noruega- y una población de 514 millones de personas. No había disponible una comparación directa de la prevalencia de la enfermedad mental en otras partes del mundo porque los diferentes estudios adoptan parámetros diversos. El equipo de Wittchen observó unas 100 enfermedades que cubren todos los grandes trastornos mentales, desde ansiedad y depresión a adicción o esquizofrenia, así como grandes enfermedades neurológicas como la epilepsia, el Parkinson y la esclerosis múltiple.
Los resultados, publicados el lunes por la revista European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ENCP), mostraron una "carga sumamente alta" de trastornos de salud mental y enfermedades cerebrales, dijo el autor a periodistas en una sesión informativa en Londres. Los trastornos mentales son una causa importante de muerte, incapacidad y una carga económica en todo el mundo, y la Organización Mundial de la Salud prevé que para el 2020 la depresión será el segundo mayor contribuyente a la carga mundial de enfermedades en todas las edades.
Wittchen dijo que en Europa ese futuro sombrío había llegado pronto, y que las enfermedades del cerebro ya eran el mayor contribuyente a la carga de enfermedades de la UE. Las cuatro condiciones que generan más discapacidad -medida en términos de años de vida ajustados por discapacidad, una medición estándar utilizada para comparar el impacto de varias enfermedades- son la depresión, demencias como la enfermedad de Alzheimer y la demencia vascular, la dependencia del alcohol y los accidentes cerebrovasculares (ACV).
El último gran estudio europeo de trastornos cerebrales, que fue publicado en el 2005 y cubrió una población más pequeña de unos 301 millones de personas, halló que el 27 por ciento de la población adulta de la UE padecía una enfermedad mental. Aunque el estudio del 2005 no puede compararse directamente con este último -el alcance y la población eran diferentes- concluyó que la carga financiera de estas dolencias y las enfermedades neurológicas suponía en ese entonces unos 386.000 millones de euros al año (unos 555.000 millones de dólares).
El equipo de Wittchen aún no ha finalizado los datos del impacto económico de su último trabajo, aunque dijo que los costes serían "considerablemente mayores" que los estimados en el 2005. Los investigadores dijeron que era crucial para los responsables de políticas sanitarias reconocer la enorme carga y encontrar formas de identificar antes a los potenciales pacientes y hacer de su tratamiento rápido una prioridad.
Una de cada cinco personas en Estados Unidos padece una enfermedad mental, más allá del problema psicosocial, esto nos habla del lobby de la industria farmaceútica
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Mental Illness Affects 1 in 5 Americans
Survey Shows Many Mentally Ill Americans Aren’t Getting the Medical Help They Need
Nov. 18, 2010 -- Nearly one in five adult Americans has experienced mental illness in the past year, according to a new government survey, with women, the unemployed, and young adults more likely than others to be affected.
Among those one in five -- representing 45 million Americans -- the survey found that nearly 20%, or nearly 9 million, also had substance dependence or abuse problems in the previous year.
The results are in the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Mental Health Findings conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a public health agency within the Department of Health and Human Services.
"It's a sobering report," says Peter Delany, PhD, director of the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality at SAMHSA.
Access to care is wanting, with less than four in 10 of those with mental health problems in the past year getting mental health help, the survey found.
Comprehensive Look at Mental Illness in U.S.
"This is the first of its kind," Delany says of the new survey. "This is the first time we have taken a comprehensive view of mental illness on its own."
Estimates of mental illness -- such as major depressive disorder and other mental health problems -- were made based on data from the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which polls about 68,700 Americans ages 12 and up.
Other noteworthy findings:
- Of the nearly 20% of Americans with mental illness in the past year, 11 million of those, or nearly 5%, had what was defined as ''serious mental illness," Delany says. He differentiates mental illness overall from serious mental illness by severity. While both categories met criteria for diagnosis as outlined in the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), the lives of those with serious mental illness were more severely impaired.
- 8.4 million adults had serious thoughts of suicide in the past year; of those, 2.2 million made a plan for killing themselves and 1 million attempted it.
- Women ages 18 and older were more likely than men 18 and up to have any mental illness, with nearly 24% of women but 15.6% of men reporting mental illness.
- In 2009, 2 million young people, ages 12 to 17 had major depressive episode; nearly 36% of those used illicit drugs.
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La timidez es ya, oficialmente, una enfermedad mentalLa nueva edición del tristemente célebre DSM —ese manual para inquisidores— hace de comportamientos como la timidez y la excentricidad síntomas dignos de atención psiquiátrica; pero si todos estamos locos, ¿quién necesita a estos médicos de la mente?
El DSM tiene fama de ser una especie de manual para inquisidores de las enfermedades mentales, una lista, las más de las veces polémica, que intenta agotar todos los signos que hacen de una persona candidata a la atención médica y la institucionalización.
Asimismo, con cada edición pareciera que los encargados de su redacción tienen la consigna de etiquetar a la humanidad entera, sujeto por sujeto, con algún trastorno mental, haciendo de condiciones y características inocentes e innegablemente humanas, signos casi demoníacos de un padecimiento imposible de pasar por alto.
Así, en la más reciente versión del Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, el DSM-5, que se publicará en mayo de 2013, está previsto que se incluyan como “problemas” comportamientos como la timidez, la aflicción o la excentricidad. Por otro lado el manual habla también de un “trastorno de oposición desafiante” para los niños que desobedecen y reduce a una depresión patológica la reacción humanamente previsible de alguien que ha sufrido la pérdida de un ser querido.
Ahora bien, si ya esto es alarmante desde cierta perspectiva no especializada, incluso psiquiatras reconocidos y experimentados ven con recelo la negligente ambición del DSM. Allen Frances, profesor emérito en la Universidad Duke, dice por ejemplo que esta nueva edición del DSM “amplía radical y temerariamente los límites de la psiquiatría”.
Por otro lado, otros campos como la criminología y el ámbito de lo judicial podrían verse transformados si delitos como la violación y el abuso sexual se amparan en la terminogía “trastorno parafílico coercitivo” que el DSM propone.
Sin embargo, también es cierto que, visto con malicia, esta desmesura de los psiquiatras puede volverse en su contra y socavar tanto su disciplina como su cuestionable autoridad basada en este conocimiento, pues si todos sufrimos algún tipo de trastorno mental, ese “todos” incluye también a los médicos de la mente supuestamente capacitados para curarnos —lo que sea que eso signifique.
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Cuestionar a la autoridad es una enfermedad, según industria psiquiátricaLa Asociación Psiquiátrica Americana considera un trastorno mental el pensamiento desafiante, algo conveniente para mantener una sociedad de personas (o autómatas) conformes con la normalidad.
Este manual lo utilizan los doctores para definir enfermedades mentales y en cada edición aumenta de forma notable el número de enfermedades mentales, por lo cual se cuestiona si nos estamos trastornando mentalmente cada vez más o es más difícil estar mentalmente saludable. Los doctores dicen que se debe a que actualmente se puede identificar con mayor facilidad estos trastornos, lo cual también significa que se puede medicar a más personas y recluirlas en instituciones mentales.
El manual recientemente ha identificado como enfermedades la arrogancia, el narcisismo, la creatividad fuera del promedio, el cinismo y el comportamiento antisocial. En el pasado todos estos solo eran rasgos de la personalidad, pero ahora ya son enfermedades tratables.
En los últimos 50 años sus páginas han pasado de 130 enfermedades mentales a 357, muchas de las cuales afectan a los niños, quienes en consecuencia reciben altas dosis de fármacos. Se ha especulado que si Mozart naciera hoy se le diagnosticaría déficit de atención y sería medicado hasta volverlo normal, desperdiciando su genialidad natural. ¿Cuántos niños brillantes, de una sensibilidad diferente, han sido acondicionados a la normalidad?
Esta nueva enfermedad que ve como un trastorno el pensamiento desafiante puede ser usada incluso de forma política, como un método de legislar qué es valido pensar dentro de una sociedad automatizada e impedir la generación y comunicación del pensamiento inconforme con los valores de la sociedad.
“I had to train myself not to get too interested in their problems, and not to get sidetracked trying to be a semi-therapist.” DR. DONALD LEVIN, a psychiatrist whose practice no longer includes talk therapy.
Many psychiatrists, in large part because of how much insurance will pay, no longer provide talk therapy.
Medicine is rapidly changing in the United States from a cottage industry to one dominated by large hospital groups and corporations, but the new efficiencies can be accompanied by a telling loss of intimacy between doctors and patients. And no specialty has suffered this loss more profoundly than psychiatry.
En este artículo de Cracked el autor nos habla de como la industria del entretenimiento nos sigue mostrando imágenes anticuadas de varias cosas, comenzando por la psiquiatría. Nos explica que ya esta ciencia ha cambiado mucho y al contrario de lo que suele verse en las películas, la terapia hablada es cada vez menos utlizada por los psiquiatras.
Apparently, writers often reference the shows they grew up watching as kids. So they wind up writing scenes that made sense in the 1970s, but are hopelessly out of date today.
En este artículo de Cracked el autor nos habla de como la industria del entretenimiento nos sigue mostrando imágenes anticuadas de varias cosas, comenzando por la psiquiatría. Nos explica que ya esta ciencia ha cambiado mucho y al contrario de lo que suele verse en las películas, la terapia hablada es cada vez menos utlizada por los psiquiatras.
Have you ever watched a movie set in the present where a guy was, say, using a pay phone, and thought, "Man, how old are these writers? Use your cellphone!"
The thing is, writers often reference not real life, but the shows they grew up watching as kids. So they wind up writing scenes that made sense in the 1970s, but are hopelessly out of date today. That's why in movies and TV ...
#7. Psychiatrists Make You Talk About What Your Dreams Mean
As Seen In: Analyze This, Bones, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Sopranos, Two and a Half Men, Desperate Housewives, Numb3rs, Dexter
What Movies and TV Say:
People in movies and TV visit psychiatrists for a variety of reasons: Maybe he or she is a cop who was traumatized after a shooting, or someone dealing with repressed childhood memories, or (in a surprising number of cases) a notorious crime boss with mommy issues ...
Yes, two times absolutely counts as "a surprising number of cases" for this.Whatever the problem, they'll always end up sitting or lying on a psychiatrist's chair, talking about themselves and what their dreams symbolize for an implied hour until the shrink says something profound that leads to a life-altering realization. It's mostly stuff about the character's mother, and wanting to bang her.
Sometimes the psychiatrist even becomes a permanent member of the cast, offering insights into the psychosexual stages of childhood or quipping about Freudian slips (like in Bones).
That expression is not a coincidence.The Reality Today:
How many times have you heard a movie psychiatrist say "Our hour is up" when there's still so much to talk about? If you've actually been to one, however, you know that most psychiatrist appointments in America today last only 15 minutes ... and don't involve a lot of talking.
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"The first three sessions involve no talking, just rape-eyes."Even if you do manage to find a psychiatrist or therapist to listen to you monologuing, it still won't be the familiar TV fare about dreams and secretly wanting to bone everyone in your family. Concepts like Oedipus complexes, repressed urges and psychosexual stages -- in other words, the 1920s-era psychology of Sigmund Freud -- are now viewed by most psychiatrists and mental health professionals as about as scientifically valid and useful as Freud's cocaine use. These days, between 75 and 90 percent of psychiatric practice is based not on talking about your problems, but on drug therapy. When you do get to talk to somebody, you'll find they prefer "evidence-based" treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy, a short-term treatment that focuses on changing unhealthy behavior and thought patterns.
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"Absolute nonsense. Now show me your anus."So if you want to tell someone about your weird sex dreams for an hour without being arrested, you might be better off seeking out a homeless person instead.
#6. Catholic Nuns Still Dress Like ... Nuns
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As Seen In: CSI, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, House, Constantine, End of Days, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Boondock Saints, Supernatural, The Exorcism of Emily Rose
What Movies and TV Say:
Even if you've never stepped inside a church, you probably know all about the Catholic religion just from watching TV and going to the movies -- whether the plot revolves around faith, ancient conspiracy theories or just plain old exploding demons, the Catholics will always be there doing their instantly identifiable Catholic stuff. For example, if you see these ladies in CSI ...
Semen is present on at least one of these habits.... or this one in the film The Da Vinci Code ...
... or Dogma ...
Both Matt Damon and the nun were played by Kevin Smith.... you instantly recognize them as Catholic nuns, because everyone knows that's how they all dress. Catholic churches themselves are just as easy to spot in movies: They will inevitably be dark, with stained glass, flickering votive candles and spooky Latin chanting coming from nowhere in particular -- like this one in The Boondock Saints:
Yeah, this looks like the house of a God who speaks mainly through Berettas.And if there's an exorcism or some other type of Catholic ritual involved, you can bet your ass that it will be in Latin, a language that every priest has memorized with nearly as much devotion as a Trekkie learning to speak Klingon.
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If you have stepped inside a Catholic church, however, you've probably noticed that a lot of the newer ones have a tendency to look like empty DMV offices:
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"Blessings in the left line. Everlasting purgatory in the right."Even the traditional church candles have been replaced in many places with electric lights, due to fire's propensity to burn shit to the ground. But at least those habit-wearing nuns and Latin-speaking priests are still going strong, right? Sure they are, probably. Just not in the U.S.
You see, in the 1960s, the Second Vatican Council loosened the guidelines on things like habit-wearing and Latin-speaking. Other countries applied the new rules in moderation, but it turns out that Americans were about as into Latin in their religions as they were subtitles in their movies. So Latin rites were largely replaced with English versions ... back in 1964. Today, most priests coming out of seminary do not even speak Latin, let alone perform rites in it.
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"Oh jeez. Look, everyone just be excellent to each other. Church dismissed."Nuns, for their part, mostly stopped wearing habits in the '60s, totally missing out on the whole nunsploitation genre. In fact, the number of habit-wearing nuns in the U.S. went from 180,000 in 1964 to a third of that in 2009, and today, the vast majority of religious women dress like ... women. This means that there are probably more nun costumes in America right now than there are actual nun habits, begging the question: Who is dressing up as whom?
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Who do we shoooot?#5. You Can Adopt Kids from an Orphanage
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As Seen In: Orphan, Despicable Me, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, Problem Child, Smallville, Big Daddy
What Movies and TV Say:
Traditionally, orphans have filled a wide range of TV and movies roles, from deranged killers to adorable angels who are hiding the fact that they are deranged killers. And if Hollywood is to be believed, the adoption process doesn't vary significantly between a kid and a dog: You just drive out to the place where they conveniently store them and pick one out.
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Usually the one who doesn't bite you.Oh, sure, sometimes movies will include talk of "waiting lists" or some other type of bureaucracy, but not before the parents are at least allowed to browse through the orphanage for a kid they like. Most of the time, the orphanage practically hands them their secretly evil new child right away, like in 2009's Orphan and 2010's Despicable Me:
One is a disturbingly violent and psychologically horrific film, the other is Orphan.And in those cases when an orphanage isn't actually depicted, it's at least mentioned as the place where a character has been (like in the show Smallville) or where they are in danger of ending up (like in Adam Sandler's Big Daddy).
The Reality Today:
It turns out that what we think of as an "orphanage" doesn't even exist in the U.S. anymore, and hasn't for decades. Following the 1980 Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act, most orphaned or abandoned children were placed with relatives or in foster homes. This was the killing blow to the American orphanage system, which had been in decline since we stopped encouraging unmarried mothers to give up their whore-babies in the '60s.
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"Yup, it's the last you'll see of him, but don't worry -- he'll get all the cigars and brandy he'll ever need."The closest thing we have now to a traditional orphanage is a group home, but those are usually reserved for much older children who haven't done well in foster homes. So to make most adoption movies accurate, you'd have to either change the setting to the '50s or replace all the little kids running around with awkwardly mustached teenagers.
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"I'm less about whimsical adventures and more about heroin."Not that you'd be able to directly adopt one from a group home, anyway. These days, most adoptions are done through the foster system or by arrangement with birth parents, and the whole process is much, much more expensive and time consuming than your television would have you believe: An average non-foster adoption will set you back around $32,000 in legal and other fees and takes between six months and two years. So by the time Adam Sandler's slacker character in Big Daddy had saved up the money and dealt with all the paperwork, he would have ended up with a full-grown blond version of Jon Stewart.
"Nope, you're gonna have to go pee on that door alone, champ."#4. Everything in England Is Old-Fashioned and Cobblestoned
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As Seen In: Harry Potter, The Holiday, V for Vendetta, Bridget Jones's Diary, Bones, What a Girl Wants, National Treasure 2, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse, Love Actually, anything starring Hugh Grant
What Movies and TV Say:
According to Hollywood, England is a magical kingdom that was frozen in time at some point in the early 20th century (sadly, after all their dragons became extinct), but that's why we like it: We want to see quaint, old-fashioned things that you'd never find in America, like royal weddings, boarding schools and free public transportation. V for Vendetta takes place in an England entirely covered in charming cobblestones, and that one's supposed to be set in the future:
This must mean we already have flying cars in America at this point.Or look at the Harry Potter movies -- even Harry's "normal," non-wizarding family dresses like they're in a period piece:
The wizard world has already reduced the U.K. to an economic and cultural wasteland.But the genre that has exploited England's cultural stagnancy the most is the romantic comedy, because they allow us to travel back in time to an era where everyone was polite, well spoken and addicted to tea just by crossing the Atlantic. For example, the 2006 romantic comedy The Holiday shows Kate Winslet, a British woman visiting Los Angeles, rejoicing hysterically when she finds herself in a kitchen equipped with something more modern than her stovetop kettle:
"Oh boy! They have mixed fibers in their clothes, too!"The Reality Today:
The British are partly to blame for all these misconceptions -- their entire film industry is now largely based on the fact that Americans think it's a pre-modern country. Film-location businesses in the U.K. overwhelmingly advertise old locations like manors and castles, because they figure that if the Americans wanted asphalt roads and glass buildings, they'd just stay home.
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Before Hollywood, this was all syringes and hookers as far as the eye could see.And yet 2012 England often isn't "old" enough to satisfy American tastes for films set there. Movies like Oliver Twist, A Knight's Tale, From Hell and Shanghai Knights, and the TV series Robin Hood, among others, were all filmed in other parts of Europe that apparently look more English to us than England itself.
Hell, even the tea thing is in question -- the whole British tea-drinking tradition is now in decline.
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