Miscellaneous

This explains so much ...

Remember the movie Men in Black, where the big joke was that all the creepy, marginal, bizarre people in New York are actually aliens? It was funny because it kind of seemed like it could be true, right? Well, a new study suggests that, while we might not be constantly interacting with extraterrestrials, we ARE constantly interacting with crazy people. Or rather: Most of us are crazy people.

According to the study, released Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry, 1 in 5 young Americans has a personality disorder. The numbers get worse if you cast a slightly wider net -- "Counting substance abuse, the study found that nearly half of young people surveyed have some sort of psychiatric condition." And evidently the National Institute of Mental Health has estimated that 1 in 4 U.S. adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.

All I have to say is, no wonder GW got elected twice.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on December 03, 2008 (boomark / email).