[lbo-talk] Americans: doped up for decades

[Carrol Cox]

There's one problem that tends to mess up, or at least clutter all 
studies of mental illness: uncertain diagnosis. You can't trust the 
numbers. There is no reason to assume that the present list of "mental 
illnesses" won't change again, as it has changed in the past. For 
example, no one suffers from hysteria today, but it was once one of the 
most 'popular' mental illnesses. Bipolar & schizophrenia are really 
difficult to distinguish, especially when taking diagnoses from 
different time periods.

Carrol