Are Americans in a mental health crisis?
Politicians and public health officials say we are.
But maybe the real crisis is over-diagnosis.
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“One in five children in America will not leave childhood without coming down with a serious mental health disorder,” warns Erica Komisar, a therapist who lectures about rising rates of mental illness.
Psychologist and Stossel TV Fellow Adam Omary, of the Cato Institute’s HumanProgress.org, reports on another explanation for rising rates: more therapy.
The psychiatric diagnostic manual has grown from 130 to 1,050 pages.
No wonder the National Institutes of Health now says nearly half of young people have experienced mental illness.
“If 30 to 50% of the population are reporting these symptoms, then it’s normal,” argues psychologist Roger McFillin, “Our response to it is what is abnormal.”
In the video above, the debate on mental health, why more money won’t solve the problem, overmedication, and more.
