Musing Of A Mind In Controlled Chaos

If not, why not?

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whiporwill: The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s Over the last several decades, both through good economic times and bad, the United States has transformed into the planet’s undisputed worry champion. Around the turn of the millennium, anxiety flew past depression as the most prominent mental health issue in America, and it’s never looked back: With more than 18 percent of adults suffering from an anxiety disorder in any given year, the United States is now the most anxious nation in the world, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Stress-related ailments cost the nation $300 billion every year in medical bills and lost productivity, while our usage of sedative drugs keeps skyrocketing; just between 1997 and 2004, Americans more than doubled their spending on anti-anxiety medications like Xanax and Valium, from $900 million to $2.1 billion. And this anxious strain hits us well before we reach college.

whiporwill:

The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s

Over the last several decades, both through good economic times and bad, the United States has transformed into the planet’s undisputed worry champion. Around the turn of the millennium, anxiety flew past depression as the most prominent mental health issue in America, and it’s never looked back: With more than 18 percent of adults suffering from an anxiety disorder in any given year, the United States is now the most anxious nation in the world, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Stress-related ailments cost the nation $300 billion every year in medical bills and lost productivity, while our usage of sedative drugs keeps skyrocketing; just between 1997 and 2004, Americans more than doubled their spending on anti-anxiety medications like Xanax and Valium, from $900 million to $2.1 billion. And this anxious strain hits us well before we reach college.

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It is the nature of stupid people to hide their perplexity and attack what they cannot grasp.
John Gardner. The subject was fiction writing, but it could have been politics. (via motherjones)

I couldn’t agree more

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When waiting is not an option…….

Up in the infamous DallasBBQ on Livingston Street in Brooklyn, where it has half the space of all the other locations and twice as many people. And the loudness Is stadium level, I mean Super Bowl stadium level.Oh did I mention half of our table is not here