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The big new thing in American business is the meteoric increase in the number of employees taking off days for mental health. Sounds like a good thing, right? Seems to afflict mostly the under 35 crowd. There is also a monumental increase in conversation about mental illness. A frightening large proportion of people are taking psychiatric medication in numbers never before seen. So, is mental disease on the increase? Or are normal challenges of a busy normal life being pathologized into mental disease? Especially since there is virtually no mental disorder with any detectable biological marker. Different doctors--different diagnoses and different treatments. Unbelievably large numbers of school boys are taking stimulants like Ritalin or Adderall. Does this reflect growing medical sophistication or a terrible wrong turn? What does your body have to do with all this? What does your soul have to do with all this?
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By Rabbi Daniel Lapin4.8
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The big new thing in American business is the meteoric increase in the number of employees taking off days for mental health. Sounds like a good thing, right? Seems to afflict mostly the under 35 crowd. There is also a monumental increase in conversation about mental illness. A frightening large proportion of people are taking psychiatric medication in numbers never before seen. So, is mental disease on the increase? Or are normal challenges of a busy normal life being pathologized into mental disease? Especially since there is virtually no mental disorder with any detectable biological marker. Different doctors--different diagnoses and different treatments. Unbelievably large numbers of school boys are taking stimulants like Ritalin or Adderall. Does this reflect growing medical sophistication or a terrible wrong turn? What does your body have to do with all this? What does your soul have to do with all this?
Join all the other Happy Warriors in the Happy Warrior community: https://www.wehappywarriors.com/.

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