Doctors are notorious for over prescribing, not listening to your REAL symptoms, and declaring you have this disorder or condition. They've given toddlers Ritalin. I think in those cases, parents don't want to deal with a very active child. Has anyone ever felt misdiagnosed? I have been and now I'm stuck with misinformed medical information. A nurse thoughthe I was delusional about being a published author. If she had googled my name, she would have seen i was telling the truth. Doctors get kickbacks on all their prescriptions and diagnosis. Some people may truly need help. But some are fucked by stupid doctors.

As a social worker of 20+ years.
I'd LIKE to think it's down to better recognition of problems.
But that's not the truth of it.
Sadly I think it's being driven by the drug industry.
Drug company's try and find treatments for all sorts of problems.
When it comes to testing, those on the drug programmes have to report any and all effects these drugs have.
So. For example. Suppose a drug company comes up with a treatment that, they say is for better blood flow to the heart for patients with severe heart disease.
A group of people with heart disease is asked to try it for a period. And report any and all side effects.
The trial may last two or three months. The results collated. Then they look at the side effects. And compare those with the drugs primary task.
If users report.....having extra energy or not feeling so ill. Then maybe the drug company can class that drug as a treatment for heart disease.
BUT. If there are obvious side effects (presumably un harmful) then the company might use it for another purpose!
This is how Pfizer created Viagra !!!!
So although chemists and doctors may work with one aim in mind. It's quite possible the drug created may end up treating something totally different!
With regard to mental health problems. I suspect the thinking is much the same.

The Psychiatric community has a tendency to keep finding ways to include new disorders because it's in their nature to make a pathology out of any kind of troublesome behaviour. You could also say it's better for their business to do that, because they continue to make ridiculous amounts of money for the least amount of medical work and it supports the corruption that goes on in big pharma.

I don't think so. Every mood and behavior is now labeled as some disorder or syndrome..THAT is mental

Seems like they are increasing, I have to wonder about modern day practices like adding fluoride to tap water (blocks the absorption of lithium), other chemicals in foods such as excitotoxins (Aspartamine and MSG) and the endless wars that are playing a role in this.

I think its pretty much the same. Its just back then they were either shunned by their family left to wander or locked away in an asylum.

People have always had disorders, now we just get to answer their questions online 😉

People are acknowledging and being educated on mental disorders. There's more labels being placed on different mental disorders.

I believe we have always had these conditions. We are learning more and people are opening up more, so things are not as secret as they used to be.

Most people will say their kidding
After the vicious that's a sign of bipolar

There's more of it now than ever before is pretty safe to say. The way everything has to be so effective and right on the first try nowadays gets to peoples heads. This stressful life-standard is implemented on kids of a young age, just so they will fit into the modern world's selfish ideal better.

yea