Sunday, June 02, 2013

CDC hyping wave of children's mental disorders just as new psychiatric bible 'DSM-5' released


Just in time for the official release of the American Psychiatric Association (APA)'s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that 20 percent of U.S. children are now among the ranks of those considered to have mental illness. And once DSM-5 gets into the hands of doctors and psychiatrists in the coming months and years, this percentage will only further increase.

For at least the past 10 years, the framework defining mental illness has been steadily expanding, which has meant more and more people who were previously considered to be healthy are now considered to be mentally ill. Conditions like attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, depression, and even common anxiety are increasingly being diagnosed, particularly among children between the ages of three and 17 .... http://www.naturalnews.com