junior high really does a number on a person
20% of college age young people–those age 19 to 25–have some form of personality disorder that inhibits their ability to manage everyday life. if you add alcohol and drug abuse to the picture, the numbers get worse (rising to half). the extensive study of 5,00 college and non-college students funded by the national institutes of health, the american foundation for suicide prevention and the new york psychiatric institute found that “personality disorders were the second most common problem behind drug or alcohol abuse as a single category. the disorders include obsessive, anti-social and paranoid behaviors that are not mere quirks but actually interfere with ordinary functioning.” the research uncovered a lot:
- about 8% of those surveyed have personality disorders, which can include an extreme preoccupation with details, rules, orderliness and perfectionism. the most common of the disorder is obsessive compulsive personality disorder.
- obessive compulsive disorder (ocd) different from the disorder above is thought to effect 12% of people in this category but only about 2 percent of the general population.
- about 33% of the group have substance abuse problems (drug or alcohol abuse).
- 8% have phobias
- 7% are depressed
- 5% of non-students exerience bipolar disorder while 3% of students do.
what i found most interesting was that only about a quarter of these folks–that’s 1 in 4–get help for their problems. and when you think that’s not a big deal, consider the recent events at virginia tech and the harvard educated unabomber.
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