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HHH@hotmail.com (SON OF HARRY HOPE) wrote in
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> 74% of Americans Not Insane
>
> June 2, 2004
>
> BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
>
> RUSH: Here's exciting news. New study out, this is from Dayton, Ohio:
> 74% of Americans are sane. New study, 26% of Americans have mental
> illnesses. So I'm going to conclude here that 74% of Americans are
> sane, and that means I'm going to get in trouble because now I've
> implied that people with mental illness are insane.
>
> Here are the details of the story. This from WHIO TV. "If you are
> feeling stressed lately a new study shows that you are not alone. The
> research showed that the United States has more cases of mental
> illness than 14 other major countries that were examined. This
> includes anxiety disorders and depression. More than 26% of Americans
> have a mental illness. The most common symptoms are panic attacks,
> phobias, and posttraumatic distress disorder, PTSD."
>
> In fact, there's a new -- I have it here in the stack. I should have
> put it right into this, actually from yesterday's show, but there's a
> new stress out there. It's the new crisis - Status Anxiety. I'm not
> kidding you. I've got this big story from the Oregonian here, Status
> Anxiety Disorder. It's when you are afflicted with keeping up with the
> Joneses disease, status -- and it's a long story. It gets detailed,
> gives you examples how to identify yourself if you are suffering from
> status anxiety. [Program Observer Interruption] Well, yeah, I guess,
> depends on how you define Affluenza. Affluenza could be you're
> affluent, don't like it. You get sick because you're too affluent,
> feel guilty. This is not that. This is you are not who or where you
> want to be and you're stressed out of over it. You don't have the
> status that -- see, Affluenza sufferers have no problem with their
> status. They're guilty about it, but they got it in their minds. These
> poor people who suffer from status anxiety don't have any status and
> it's a long story.
>
> BREAK TRANSCRIPT
>
>
> RUSH: All right, Becky in Rochester, Michigan, hi. Welcome to the EIB
> Network. Nice to have you with us. Hello.
>
> CALLER: Hello, Rush.
>
> RUSH: Yes.
>
> CALLER: I'd say mega dittos, but right now you I'm a little upset with
> you.
>
> RUSH: Oh, I bet I know why, too, because I predicted it.
>
> CALLER: Well, yeah --
>
> RUSH: You're upset that I'm confusing mental illness with -- or not
> confusing -- that I associated mental illness with insanity.
>
> CALLER: Here's the deal. Mental illness, a lot of it has physiological
> underpinnings. Now, do they go overboard with all kind of things that
> aren't that? Yes, they do. However, part of the problem is that people
> seem to treat mental illness as, oh, general rule, different than
> liver disease or kidney disease, and the fact is it's not. And I kind
> of resent being called insane just because I'm depressed. I have to
> take medication for it.
>
> RUSH: Yeah.
>
> CALLER: When I'm not on my medication, yeah, I am totally off the wall
Cool.
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