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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 138852" data-attributes="member: 175235"><p>I would add mental illness/disease to the list of top priorities. With about 25% of the population suffering from some form of mental illness sometime in their life, people seem very unaware of what they are, how they affect people and (how little) we know about them.</p><p></p><p>At any one point 5% of the population is clinically depressed, 26% of women and 12% of men will suffer at least one episode during their lifetime (in the western world that is).</p><p></p><p>1% of the worlds population suffers from Schizophrenia sometime in their life, a third of them will have it for most of their adult life and not respond to any treatment. I know 1% isn't much, but we don't know what causes it, genetic links are unclear and no one has come to any sort of clear conclusion as to what it does in brain. Drug therapies are crude, have many side effects, don't attack all symptoms and don't work at all in a third of cases. </p><p></p><p>With the average life expectancy increasing things like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other late onset conditions are likely to affect more and more people. </p><p></p><p>Addiction and addiction related health problems are serious, there is no clear understanding of it, 'treatments' for most drug addictions (including nicotine and alcohol) are crude and hard, other addiction treatments are just maintenance therapies and don't address the underlying addiction.</p><p></p><p>I'm not trying to compare mental illness to other illnesses, just using this as an opportunity to show what a problem it is, and wonder why there is so little public or media attention paid to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 138852, member: 175235"] I would add mental illness/disease to the list of top priorities. With about 25% of the population suffering from some form of mental illness sometime in their life, people seem very unaware of what they are, how they affect people and (how little) we know about them. At any one point 5% of the population is clinically depressed, 26% of women and 12% of men will suffer at least one episode during their lifetime (in the western world that is). 1% of the worlds population suffers from Schizophrenia sometime in their life, a third of them will have it for most of their adult life and not respond to any treatment. I know 1% isn't much, but we don't know what causes it, genetic links are unclear and no one has come to any sort of clear conclusion as to what it does in brain. Drug therapies are crude, have many side effects, don't attack all symptoms and don't work at all in a third of cases. With the average life expectancy increasing things like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other late onset conditions are likely to affect more and more people. Addiction and addiction related health problems are serious, there is no clear understanding of it, 'treatments' for most drug addictions (including nicotine and alcohol) are crude and hard, other addiction treatments are just maintenance therapies and don't address the underlying addiction. I'm not trying to compare mental illness to other illnesses, just using this as an opportunity to show what a problem it is, and wonder why there is so little public or media attention paid to it. [/QUOTE]
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