RE: [asa] Society Ignoring Serious Boy Problems

I can speak to this, it's what I do for a living. One of my main hats is as
an emergency psychiatrist. The suicide rate, whether in boys or girls,
starts being a problem in adolescents. However, this is just a symptom of
the cultural "avalanche" that has been the past 50 years.

http://www.cdc.gov/men/lcod/04all.pdf

http://www.cdc.gov/women/lcod/04all.pdf

Suicide and homicide rates are often in the top three causes of deaths for
folks 10-45.

The average patient that presents in my psychiatry crisis unit is from a
broken, non-nuclear family, has suffered some form of abuse or neglect,
abuses or is dependent on drugs or alcohol, has not completed their
education, is unemployed, has a significant history of violence and/or legal
problems, AND on top of that, may very well have a "true mental health"
issue, like major depression or bipolar disorder.

The first report of major increases in mental health crises was from the
80s. The APA's report here:

http://archive.psych.org/edu/other_res/lib_archives/archives/tfr/tfr200201.p
df

is illuminating. It's 101 pages long - read page 5 for why there is a need
for a task force. This was published in 2002.

I've been managing the Crisis Unit for the past 7 years, but we have stats
for the past 12 years. In that time, the population of our community has
increased 8%. The increase in our patient population has increased by >
200%, and the majority of that is in the past 5 years. The slope of the line
is going up.the rate is increasing. There's not that many more people.people
are getting sicker.

The APA report, on page 5, states that "Deinstitutionalization and later
efforts at cost containment including managed care have tended to place more
fragile patients in the community." While this is true,
deinstitutionalization ended in Louisiana decades ago. The vast majority of
patients I see are not from institutions nor are they in need of
institutionalization. They are the product of the decline in social and
moral values in our society, the product of radical feminism, the product of
sexual freedom (this really begin in the 50's with the Kinsey reports) and
drug use, and the result that all of that has had on the nuclear family.

I could go on.I just recently presented on this topic here where I work, and
am writing a manuscript on it.

James Patterson, Shreveport

From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Dave Wallace
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 4:34 PM
To: ASA
Subject: [asa] Society Ignoring Serious Boy Problems

Boys' suicide crisis?

Another serious problem is suicide
<http://www.livescience.com/health/081010-bad-stress-suicide.html> rates,
Kleinfeld points out.

In her review, she cites data from the National Center for Health Statistics
to show the "alarming" suicide rate among boys. From 1995 to 2005, the rate
of suicide among 20 to 24 year-old boys was 20.7 suicides per 100,000, while
the rate for girls was just 3.5 per 100,000. Among 15 to 19 year olds, the
rates were 12.5 per 100,000 for boys and 2.8 per 100,000 for girls.

And the difference between the gender suicide rates is rising. "In 1933 the
young male suicide rate was 1.54 times higher than for young females. In
2005 the male rate was 4.63 times higher than the female rate," Kleinfeld
said.

http://www.livescience.com/culture/090701-boys-issues.html

:-) I assume this study must be using a completely bogus methodology as most
feminists north of the 49th parallel would totally disagree. :-P

Dave W

ps my comments were black humour

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