Wednesday, June 02, 2004
So, wealth and power don't make people sane
Who knew?
Hey, not me, though! As Samuel Beckett wrote in Waiting for Godot:
Wonder what the Republican/Democratic, Red state/Blue State, religious/non-religious breakdown is, here? It would certainly be interesting to know....
The Times story has an interesting graphic that shows that the US has three times the incidence of the next most mentally ill developed country which is, guess... France! Heh.
From 1 to 5 percent of the populations of most of the countries surveyed had serious mental illness.
For example, about 26 percent of Americans were judged to have mental illness, compared with only 4 percent of the residents of Shanghai and 5 percent of Nigerians.
(via NY Times)
Hey, not me, though! As Samuel Beckett wrote in Waiting for Godot:
Sometimes I think that I'm not in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as normal as before."
Wonder what the Republican/Democratic, Red state/Blue State, religious/non-religious breakdown is, here? It would certainly be interesting to know....
The Times story has an interesting graphic that shows that the US has three times the incidence of the next most mentally ill developed country which is, guess... France! Heh.
