A survey by The Prince's Trust found that one in 10 young people in Scotland are wrestling with depression. Nine per cent of young people who answered the survey said life was not worth living.
BBC News (5 January 2009) quotes Peter Kellner of YouGov, who conducted the research: "Most young people have a positive outlook on life, but the Youth Index reveals a significant core of unhappy people aged under 25.
"Their concerns need to be addressed, and not only for the sake of the youngsters themselves; for if we ignore their concerns, we shall be storing up big problems for the future."
The survey results found that 23% of respondents said they were 'often' or 'always' down or depressed and 48% said they were regularly stressed.
Geraldine Gammell, director of the Prince's Trust Scotland, comments: "This is an increasingly vulnerable generation. There has never been a greater need for programmes which help steer young people away from false support systems such as gangs, drugs and alcohol, whilst giving them new direction."
Monday 5 January 2009
Sunday 4 January 2009
News: Psychiatrists Revise the Book of Human Troubles - New York Times
The American Psychiatric Association are working on the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). This article in the New York Times (17 December 2008) highlights the challenge of defining and classifying mental illnesses such as obsessive compulsive disorder, binge eating, Asperger's syndrome, high-functioning autism and bipolar disorder amongst others.
Contributors to the DSM-V have been asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Amendments to the book are often hotly debated and contentious. The previous edition sold more than 830,000 copies.
Contributors to the DSM-V have been asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Amendments to the book are often hotly debated and contentious. The previous edition sold more than 830,000 copies.
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