January 11, 2001 U.N. Sees Rise in Mental Disorders in Coming Decades By REUTERS GENEVA - Mental and neurological disorders--ranging from depression to Alzheimer's and epilepsy--strike 400 million people globally and are set to surge in the next two decades, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
Things psychiatric, not diseases, are co-mingled with
things neurological (disease), serving the purpose of biological
psychiatry, which would have us believe one and all are
neurologicaldiseases, needing medical helppills.]
The United Nations health agency predicted that by 2020, depression
would jump to be the second greatest cause of death and disability
worldwide, following ischemic heart disease.
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
Further co-mingling of things
psychiatric with things medical, not just neurological]
WHO officials attributed the projected rise in depression to factors
including more stressful lifestyles, poverty and violence. Alzheimer's
disease,
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
An actual disease with/due to abnormalities of the brain
evident by brain scan, biopsy, and at autopsy. By contrast, no
psychiatric disorder has a an objective abnormality by which to diagnose
it in life or at post-mortem]
a debilitating dementia that hits the elderly, is expected to
increase as people live longer.
They spoke at a news briefing to launch WHO's 2001 campaign aimed at
removing myths and stigmas linked to such disorders, whose slogan is
"Stop exclusion--Dare to care".
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
Here we have the World Health
Organization joining the psychiatric-pharmaceutical cartel propaganda
campaign]
"This (campaign) is overdue" said WHO's Dr. Derek Yach.
Dr. Benedetto Saraceno, director of WHO's department of mental health
and substance dependence
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
a psychiatrist, per chance?]
, said: "Mental health disorders, neurological diseases
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
speaking of the two, as one]
is a major public health concern worldwide."
400 MILLION SUFFER WORLDWIDE
Some 400 million people today suffer from mental and neurological
disorders
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
The two are entirely different things. No scientific,
including epidemiologic purpose is served by speaking of them as one]
worldwide, according to Saraceno.
At present, depression is the fifth leading cause of death and
disability, while ischemic heart disease trails in sixth place, according
to the Geneva-based WHO
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
Here they co-mingle disability from things
emotional and behavioral with that due to physical/organic diseases,
including all things neurological. Why? To whose benefit?].
The table is currently topped by acute lower respiratory infections,
according to the WHO, which says infectious diseases are generally
expected to fall.
Depression, often genetic
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
Here we have a blatant perversion of
science and medicine, a claim not only that depression is a disease
(presumed due to an abnormality--a chemical imbalance of the brain, no
doubt!) but that it is known to be genetic in origin]
hits roughly twice as many women as men, according to WHO experts.
Mental and neurological disorders represent 11% of the "global burden
of disease", a figure based on mortality and disability, according to
Saraceno
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
Note again, bringing mental disorders, under the heading
of diseases with those neurological diseasenothing more or less than
psychopharmaceutical propaganda that would treat every chemical
imbalance with a chemical balancera pill. Nor would this perversion
of medicine and science be possible without the collusion/collaboration
of the neurological establishment]
The figure is expected to represent 14% in 2020, he said. "The good news is that mental health treatment does not require very expensive infrastructure."
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
All you do is give them a pill]
"We know that 70 percent of those suffering from major depression can
fully recover if properly treated."
Schizophrenia, a chronic disorder, affects 45 million people
worldwide.
Schizophrenia is ubiquitous--you will find the same rate of
schizophrenia in Los Angeles and central Africa, probably because
there is a very strong genetic component."
[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
Schizophrenia is not known to be a bona fide
disease with a validating, diagnostic abnormality, much less one, proven
to be due to a gene abnormality.]
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