America in the Age of Diagnosis
Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: America in the Age of DiagnosisPub date: 2025-09-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmerica is sicker than ever. That’s what the data says, anyway. Psychological and psychiatric diagnoses have soared. Between the 1990s and the mid-2000s, bipolar disorder among American youth grew by a factor of 40, while the number of children diagnosed with ADHD increased by a factor of 7. Rates of PTSD, anxiety, and depression have soared, too. Perhaps in…
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