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Monday, July 04, 2005 

Cheer up

Spiked online can be a bit much to take sometimes, but their point here about the over-diagnosis of mental illness in North America is well taken.

Key lines: Of course, we are not suggesting that everyone is perennially happy or possessed of an abiding sense of wellbeing. Many, if not most, human beings are mildly neurotic, at times self-defeating, anxious, or sad. These traits or behaviours are characteristic of the human condition, often emerging in different life circumstances - they are not pathological.

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