Whereas we have learned a lot about mental disorders and their specific characteristics over the past 20 years, more work needs to be done in terms of care. “We haven’t done as good a job with improving care for depression and reducing its burden as we have for other conditions that were considered important in the 1990 estimates,” says Jurgen Unutzer, a psychiatrist and behavioral scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who was not involved in the study.

This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature Medicine. The article was first published on December 18, 2012.

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1. 1. Bops 06:03 PM 12/19/12

   Aggressive people, like sex offenders should be registered.
   Give each behavior a risk number, based on past actions and forget about the labels that overlap bad behaviors.
   
   People should have the right to protect themselves without guns.
   Anyone who is abusive to other people and animals should not be protected by mental health care practitioners.
   Why provide a secret environment to do "repeated" harm?
   
   
   

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2. 2. Bops 06:14 PM 12/19/12

   There's way more than 10% of the population that has problems with their back.
   Everyone I know over the age of 40 starts with back issues.
   
   The article content really wasn't worth the time it took to read it.
   
   
   

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