http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/12/us-new-york-mentalhealth-idUSKCN0T12OO20151112
Not even once.

At least one in five adult New Yorkers suffer from depression, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts or other psychological disorders every year, according to a report released on Thursday ahead of Mayor Bill de Blaiso's new mental-health initiative.

New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene expects to release the plan, known as NYC Thrive, by the end of next month. It is aimed at preventing and treating psychological disorders among the city's 8.4 million residents.

The "white paper" released Thursday outlines the size and scope of the problem facing the New York City.

"We have a set of public health issues that affect many people and affect them very deeply," said Dr. Gary Belkin, a deputy commissioner of the health department. "We know what we're going to be doing, and over the coming weeks you're going to be hearing about it."

Officials have said little about what NYC Thrive would involve or how much it would cost.

In August, de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray, told Crain's New York that the mayor's office would devote $386 million to mental health over the next three years.

McCray, who worked for five years as a spokeswoman for Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn before de Blasio was elected, has been the leading advocate in his administration for mental health awareness.

McCray has been open about how mental health issues have touched her own family. She has discussed her parents' struggles with depression and the past substance abuse of her daughter, Chiara.

Some 8 percent of adults in New York City experience symptoms of depression each year, according to the report. The same percentage of the city's high school students say they have attempted suicide.

Poor and minority residents are disproportionately affected by mental illnesses and are more likely than white residents to be misdiagnosed or untreated, according to the report.

The number of residents experiencing psychological disorders such as depression has held steady in recent years, it finds. But mental health problems arising from drug and alcohol abuse have risen.

Opioid-related overdoses increased in New York City in recent years, Belkin said, paralleling a national trend. Synthetic marijuana, often called spice or K2, is also leading to more deaths and psychotic episodes in the city, he said.

One of the goals of NYC Thrive is to establish a more comprehensive system to track mental health in children and adults, city officials said.

(Editing by Frank McGurty and Leslie Adler)

Jesus Christ and I guess single-parents don't real to this guy.

AFAIK single parents cannot adopt

Islam's origins are going to be a recurring problem for peaceful movements within the religion and an asset to those that would use it to promote violence.

what the fuck are frenchmen doing in Ecuador anyway?

serves em right fucking frogs

Quote from: Διομήδης on November 10, 2015, 02:45:19 PM

I just snapped at a counter protestor. Really loudly.

Why

Pro-lifers deserved to be yelled at lmao

It wasn't over anti-abortion rhetoric.

This guy had a sign that said "Harmful speech is not free speech"

He was one of the loudest ones arguing people but I got him to talk to me for a second. I asked what his sign meant and he said freedom of speech and the first amendment were 200 years old and outdated

And I just snapped. I've never been so disgusted by something a person has said to me. I do my share of banter online but hearing a real live human being declare his right to free speech outdated just broke me. I really don't know how to feel about anything tight now. I cannot believe this is really happening to my generation. In that moment I experienced real despair for the first time in my life. I feel defeated and hopeless.

I know it sounds stupid to you guys but I think my optimism has just been destroyed for good.

Quote from: challengerX on November 10, 2015, 04:26:06 PM

Quote from: Fagcicle on November 10, 2015, 03:49:13 PM

Quote from: Διομήδης on November 10, 2015, 02:54:16 PM

PEOPLE DIED FOR THIS.

I would hardly say that people died for you to say whatever you want.

And why is that?

Because there has never been a war that we fought in over "My right to say what I want!" It's always been about more pressing issues Revolution was about creating our own nation with representation that we lacked in the British government at the time, Civil War was about slavery and the divide between North and South, World Wars had nothing to do with speech, War on Terror is...not even sure what to describe it as.

At most, it's simply a nice right that was thrown in during out creation as a union and has become common in democracies.

These people were killed because they exercised their right to freely express themselves.

Not just these people, though. Countless men and women over centuries have died at the hands of those who would silence dissenters. No war has been fought in the name of freedom of speech alone, but countless wars have been fought for forms of speech that are suppressed.

liberalism is dead man it's fucking dead. And it wasn't the fascists or the marxists or the church or anybody else who killed it. We killed it. liberals fucking killed it. what the fuck has happened to us

The butthurt is so real on all sides. This shit is fucking gold. UNCG CANNOT handle the bantz.

I'm curious to see whether the University shuts it down or nah. Yes, muh freedom of expression, but showing aborted fetus pictures hurts the cause more than it helps.

Lol isn't authoritarian right basically fascism? That's a lot of blue. Although to be fair, there'd probably be a lot of blue in America too, at least in the rural hick-land.

Not necessarily.

Authoritarian right ideologies can be extremely diverse, even with all the commonalities that make them authoritarian right. Just take a look at the various Nationalist factions in the Spanish Civil War.
Hell, that war can give you a pretty good idea of how diverse authoritarian leftism can be, too.

lol enjoy your deteriated cognitive functions and potential long-term memory damage.

Lack of sleep is LITERALLY worse for you than getting hit across the head with a bat or smoking

sweet, both of those things have happened to me recently

i'm running the fuckin gammut

Greedy college students overwhelmingly support King Gibsmedat?

No. Fucking. Way.

Pop song of the year to be truthful with you kinsmen

Serious depth to this thing

Didn't it used to be Istanbul?

I dunno what the fuck an Istanbul is

Anatolia and Constantinople are rightful Christian lands, friend.

WE HOMAGE TO CATALONIA NOW