Nobody Says You Aren’t

A new government study says that more than half of Americans will develop a mental illness at some point in their lives. This seems fair, considering the huge range of mental illnesses and their varying degrees of seriousness. But one researcher, Dr. Paul McHugh, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, is quoted in The New York Times as saying: "Fifty percent of Americans mentally impaired - are you kidding me?"

He goes on to wonder about the ever-expanding classification for mental illness:

"Pretty soon," he said, "we'll have a syndrome for short, fat Irish guys with a Boston accent, and I'll be mentally ill."