Intersting Study

1 in 5 Adults Has Personality Disorder, Study Finds
Tuesday, December 02, 2008

CHICAGO — Almost one in five American adults has a personality disorder that interferes with everyday life, and even more abuse alcohol or drugs, researchers reported Monday in the most extensive study of its kind.

The disorders include problems such as obsessive or compulsive tendencies and anti-social behavior that can sometimes lead to violence. The study also found that fewer than 25 percent of college-aged Americans with mental problems get treatment.

One expert said personality disorders may be overdiagnosed. But others said the results were not surprising since previous, less rigorous evidence has suggested mental problems are common on college campuses and elsewhere.

Experts praised the study's scope — face-to-face interviews about numerous disorders with more than 5,000 young people ages 19 to 25 — and said it spotlights a problem college administrators need to address.

Study co-author Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute called the widespread lack of treatment particularly worrisome. He said it should alert not only "students and parents, but also deans and people who run college mental health services about the need to extend access to treatment."

Counting substance abuse, the study found that nearly half of young people surveyed have some sort of psychiatric condition, including students and non-students.

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 study authors noted that recent tragedies such as fatal shootings at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech have raised awareness about the prevalence of mental illness on college campuses.

They also suggest that this age group might be particularly vulnerable.

"For many, young adulthood is characterized by the pursuit of greater educational opportunities and employment prospects, development of personal relationships, and for some, parenthood," the authors said. These circumstances, they said, can result in stress that triggers the start or recurrence of psychiatric problems.

The study was released Monday in Archives of General Psychiatry. It was based on interviews with 5,092 young adults in 2001 and 2002.

Olfson said it took time to analzye the data, including weighting the results to extrapolate national numbers. But the authors said the results would probably hold true today.

The study was funded with grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York Psychiatric Institute.

Dr. Sharon Hirsch, a University of Chicago psychiatrist not involved in the study, praised it for raising awareness about the problem and the high numbers of affected people who don't get help.

Imagine if more than 75 percent of diabetic college students didn't get treatment, Hirsch said. "Just think about what would be happening on our college campuses."

The results highlight the need for mental health services to be housed with other medical services on college campuses, to erase the stigma and make it more likely that people will seek help, she said.

In the study, trained interviewers, but not psychiatrists, questioned participants about symptoms. They used an assessment tool similar to criteria doctors use to diagnose mental illness.

Dr. Jerald Kay, a psychiatry professor at Wright State University and chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's college mental health committee, said the assessment tool is considered valid and more rigorous than self-reports of mental illness. He was not involved in the study.

Personality disorders showed up in similar numbers among both students and non-students, including the most common one, obsessive compulsive personality disorder. About 8 percent of young adults in both groups had this illness, which can include an extreme preoccupation with details, rules, orderliness and perfectionism.

Kay said the prevalence of personality disorders was higher than he would expect and questioned whether the condition might be overdiagnosed.

All good students have a touch of "obsessional" personality that helps them work hard to achieve. But that's different from an obsessional disorder that makes people inflexible and controlling and interferes with their lives, he explained.

Obsessive compulsive personality disorder differs from the better known OCD, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, which features repetitive actions such as hand-washing to avoid germs.

OCD is thought to affect about 2 percent of the general population. The study didn't examine OCD separately but grouped it with all anxiety disorders, seen in about 12 percent of college-aged people in the survey.

The overall rate of other disorders was also pretty similar among college students and non-students.

Substance abuse, including drug addiction, alcoholism and other drinking that interferes with school or work, affected nearly one-third of those in both groups.

Slightly more college students than non-students were problem drinkers — 20 percent versus 17 percent. And slightly more non-students had drug problems — nearly 7 percent versus 5 percent.

In both groups, about 8 percent had phobias and 7 percent had depression.

Bipolar disorder was slightly more common in non-students, affecting almost 5 percent versus about 3 percent of students.


:-# Ahhhhhh, The future of more youth soccer coaches is upon us :-#

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Sorry,

Computer locked and of course I clicked buttons and this posted twice.

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Naw, this is just the next group of soccer PARENTS to come along. LOL :D

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funny

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hahaha

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Whether do you tell me in certain player's first reason soccer performance decline? The influence soccer performance most is big and the most common reason is the soccer stimulation or lacks it. Has not stimulated all football player to crush under various pressures, and the question soccer tries to throw. The player stimulates with 2 methods. The stimulation or from has stimulated is personally intrinsic which is called, when is stimulated by the outside forces for example training, when team partner or the ventilator refer to external. Generally speaking, stimulates by the success hope and to defeat's frightened guidance. Therefore they like very many many having the talent and having the talent player whether why to give up competing? They give up competing they to love, because lacks from has believed and the deficient confidence. When you lack these two characteristics has you also to lack the stimulation to be very possible. All players vainly hope for the use in the big stage, but does not have the stimulation, all these players and will not prepare in the request extra training to invest successfully diligently. Will spend in gymnastics will reduce enormously in the park and the time. Whether therefore we how do stimulate the football player? To the above question reply not concrete or correct reply. And does not have the player who the concrete method or the consummation method gives the stimulation. Professionalism situation, level and individual request stimulation different level. Following is permits all training maintains their team the suggestion which stimulates. At first, all coaches should encourage them the player. Always encourages the pleasure and the persistent and hard-working work in the training. This will continue you the player to return to the training, and also develops their skill, when still obtained the pleasure. Always maintains frontage and warm-hearted. You warm and positive will infect your team finally. Takes seriously to your team's positive aspect, but is not the negative. Is in no way yells to your player or causes their embarrassed you. Always provides about the improvement help and the suggestion by frontage and the friendly way. It' Important s establishment and basis honest and positive your player's friendship. Another huge way maintains the player by the stimulation is through the formulation goal. Development short-term and long-range objective attempt. The measure and the record improvement and this will maintain inevitably your player hunger for more self-development. But will remember the formulation establish the confidence and self-respect small, may achieve goal. Finally is but not is most unimportant, the best way maintains you the player is by supports by the stimulation. Always respects you the player, and they will also return favor. When the player makes a mistake reminds their best player to make a mistake in the world, and their shouldn' t anxiety. Reminds their us to make a mistake, and they will suit a better player finally through these mistakes. All coaches should know that possesses them the player and with them by a team and by the special details conversation. Commends their strength, and mentions their weakness by honest and the friendly way. Do not use intimidates or the fear teaches the young player as the tool. If you follow above suggested that I may guarantee your your team will have the motive and the keen academic society. Whether you are the soccer training or the parents? Your player whether or the child does lack the soccer stimulation? The soccer engineer guarantees you' ll plays your life best soccer. Learns you to know the child soccer and more all. Because it will be competes and is the child continuously, forever willfully gives the guarantee according to bookmark this stand.


From training excessive input, when player use, in this case trains the input becomes sends tries to player's ability to carry out and to restrain their development feebly. In brief, the training uses, but is not the player, does possesses them their decision. I see this achievement question. Too frequently, the training (and parents) felt that the excessive pressure wins the competition, and is training the player. Finally, in playing time and in practice period, has the commentary constant barrage to direct in the player, enables it impossible for the player happy and the self-expression in the domain. Main, the player causes to give up. They do not want to obey itself to this “hostilely” the environment. They rebel oppose adult's pressure and the stimulated surveillance. If they hang, because they age, they lack in theirs play's creativity or ability alone solve the competition problem. Therefore, their development is decelerated, and they no longer can adapt the competition to need in the next level. Usually, the player gives the long time sending a letter number them not to be unhappy. Their body position speaks resoundingly toward this terminal. They will also be very anxious, when uses, perhaps with, tells, in front to a difficult competition situation, when them is unable to meet competition's need. And, their major general asked very much the question to frightened anything which trains them to tell again does. Perhaps they stop approaching the practice and the competition or, needs to be compelled to participation. It is popular in all ages, but I discover it mainly in 10-14 age groups. Here, they start to suit the player, and trains the expectation becomes requests even more excessively. Many involve. The pressure wins or the hitch and their team successful. The Football club and the union need to monitor the situation carefully and from theirs responsibility, if need, elimination training. The player needs first to come. We must remember that the competition belongs to the player, and the competition is best teacher. In competition period: Training submarine player, whenever he or she makes a mistake, and how lectures they to solve the problem in the sideline, but not has the player to work passes their some in the domain mistake, academic society, when they go. Before they make it, the training tells for the player frequently anything does in competition period. For example “the fire”, “hits it to the corner”, “brings her to the corner”. But is not the training “after the fact” for example, “hey, you whether to remember last you have the ball in the box, and there only in you and between a goal fender? …Very good, you will see that next time, the fender and obtains in the goal fire” the attempt whips. Sometimes, the commentary is very suitable, but, if chats frequently the training discovers itself, they should force itself to slacken off and to relax.

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Yoda is posting in the Michigan forum too! He certainly get around.

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new that the new training is important is compelled to return basically, even with older player team coach is not uncommon, if these players have not developed the good ball control, when is younger. Finally, because just the player was X uses has seasoned (and should prepare a more advanced work theoretically), trained should not the supposition, the skill in fact in there. Finally, if you attempt a combination drill, and it continues to disperse, possibly did not mean that the drill was fearful or you do a bad work to propose it. Perhaps perhaps the truth is the player arranges. Perhaps other factors also affect the preparation to start the small group work. A factor is the spirit or the emotion development. Before the age 8 or nearby 9, the child favors therefore, therefore concentrates in their them has not seen the teammate, therefore they possibly do not prepare to cooperate the work. Another factor is the time practices spends, and training instruction and to competition's exposition quality in advance in advance. For example, 4 soccer performance's boy family's younger brother is possibly exposed has been quite competing the soccer and usually competes from the birth has opposed older brothers the sisters, therefore perhaps this child is far before is identical age other children. Still another factor was the relative physical development and the common bodily control. The training is certainly resourceful to the growth rate spontaneous change, perhaps affects coordinated, the speed, the agility and other “the movement” the quality. For example, if many players simultaneously scrutinize growth spraying and the experience and the ball control temporary trouble (, because their where didn't know that time their foot terminal), this possibly is not good introduced the ball control is the highly important recent topic.

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and that has what to do with 1 in 5 adults having a disorder?

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Will someone please ban this guy's IP?

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which guy, the one that went on and on like Yoda?

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the guy that asked what does that have to do with 1 in 5 w/ disorder?

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Thin tall and dry, playing the good valet in the end will have nothing but his dismissal; sharp poison and letters in his collar, he will be seized escaping into danger.