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Disordered Study Claims Half of Teens Are Mentally Disorderedby Heidi Stevenson15 October 2010 
While most parents will likely chuckle and good-naturedly agree with a new study claiming that half of teenagers are mentally disordered, what is actually demonstrated is just how disordered modern psychiatry has become. The teen years have always been difficult, and it's apparent that a normally difficult time of life is being medicalized for the benefit of the entrenched medical system. The study, which is being touted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and was published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, used the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) as the authority on diagnosing mental health. Entitled "Lifetime Prevalence of Mental Disorders in U.S. Adolescents: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication–Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)", it was a survey of 10,123 teens, aged from 13 through 18 years, and utilized a modified form of the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview. The study was done in association with the World Health Organization World Mental Health Survey Initiative, and was supported by the NIMH. If the NIMH's goal was to promote, through any means possible, the idea that its services are needed by a huge percentage of the population, then its goals were certainly met. The DSM-IV is a book of psychiatric diagnoses that's designed to bring as many people as possible into the clutches of that profession. It includes such gems as "oppositional defiant disorder". To receive this diagnosis, all that's necessary is to show four of the following traits within six months:
Imagine that! If a teen argues with an adult, he or she have a mental disorder! How many teens fit that description at some point? Can you imagine the teen who doesn't argue with an adult? Frankly, what's amazing is that psychiatrists are doing such a poor job of rounding up teenagers to define as mentally ill with a diagnosis like oppositional defiant disorder. This study managed to define only half of teens as mentally ill. Clearly, this is a growth field! Is there any sense at all in this study? Of course there is—if you're a psychiatrist looking for patients or a pharmaceutical company trying to sell poisons drugs. The NIMH is using the study to promote its agenda of diagnosing more and more people and giving them more and more poisons. According to them: The results reiterate the importance of developing prevention strategies and promoting early intervention for at-risk children and adolescents. In other words, define more kids as having psychiatric problems at younger ages, and then start drugging them. They define normal behavior, moods, and emotions as abnormal for the purpose of forcing more and more people to hand themselves over to medical doctors earlier and earlier in life to take more and more of their destructive drugs. What other reason could there be for tagging a teenager with a psychiatric diagnosis because he loses his temper, argues with adults, does things that irritate his teachers, and refuses to do what his parents tell him? That's all it takes to be labeled with a psychiatric problem and drugged with antipsychotics. 
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