genderberg.com

July 7, 2006 — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported in the July 7 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on the significant increase in depression-related hospitalization rates for girls aged 5 to 19 years; a halt in the decline of cigarette-smoking rates among high-school students; and the incidences of felony-related crimes,
intimate-partner violence, and mental health disorders associated with homicides and suicides.

Rate of Hospitalization for Depression Increases Significantly in Young Girls
An analysis of data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey has revealed that the rate of hospitalization for depression among girls aged 5 to 19 years increased by about 81% from 1990-1992 to 2002-2004 (per 100,000 population: 15.4 - 27.8 girls). Moreover, the rate among girls was nearly
twice that for boys (14.5) during 2002-2004.

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Gee, I wonder what could be causing this?

well oag, I have no idea why this could be - girls have never had it so good, what with all that access to dieting tips, advancements in surgery and all those celeb role models to look up to - they should be grateful! I'm stumped - I'm sure they have made up those stats. Or, it's just a "jealousy thing".

Back to reality - nothing will be done about it - it will just be an "oh well" what can we do?" - I'm too tired at the moment to go into a rage - I guess I'll just have to go and get my own antidepressant changed. Watch this space?

I feel like collecting a lot of the recent posts and articles from here and sending them to the recently elbowed b/f - yeah, his typical comment the other day about my anger "it's just a jealousy thing" - f*****g pathetic idiot. But if I sent him anything, he would just ignore it, so the thought of that makes me even angrier, so I shall restrain myself. He is the focus and target of my rage at the moment. I could easily take all the years of maleshit and release it onto him - he doesn't know how lucky he is that he's not standing in front of me at the moment. (Sorry, dump/ranting again.) I will calm down soon

This just makes me so sad. My 18yo daughter J has just come off antidepressants after being on them for two years. A result of been bulled at school for not fitting in with the oh so fucking in crowd. You know the peroxide hair, crotch length skirts and tits out for the lad’s tops type. J preferring to wear combats, Goth t shirts, and getting excellent grades, all of course making her into a “swotty dyke” She became so down and depressed she even had to take a year out on her A levels. Anyway! Like I said she’s definitely on the mend now, and she seems to have come out of it all a feisty little toad!(term of endearment)

annared that is sad - I probably would have been on them at that age if they had been commonly prescribed back then. I can't imagine what some girls go through now trying to opt out of this fu****g culture and shove it back up it's own ass where it belongs. Good on her.

I am quoting the article in oag's first post above to be included in an essay I'm writing for preparation for an interview by a jounalist I met at the recent rally. The essay won't be published, but I told her that I would need do this as a way of getting my thoughts in order, so that I won't go all over the place on tangents, which I know you will find hard to believe, I tend to do .

So far, it seems to be turning into War and Peace - how apt! heheh.

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Good for you, Army of Me. I'll look forward to seeing the final results.

I also count myself lucky the drug yer kids phase of American childrearing started after my childhood. It was always about control and these are drugs that should be named Control.

It's probably nothing that hasn't been said before from the sex work point of view, but of course I won't be making it salacious by any means. And I want the angle I mentioned to be unique and also the perspective of lots of hindsight.

I want women to know some of this inside stuff, maybe shake up a few sleepwalking thru the issues to be addressed, but editors have a habit, depending on the publications, of diluting things to the point of being bland pap nothingness sometimes.

Ideally, it would be published in the sport but as hell would freeze before that happened.....- failing that, cosmo would be a good one, or GQ - if published in the daily telegraph or some such paper, would be preaching to the converted.

We'll see.

btw, i don't mind if you actually spell out the word fuck.
just saying.

Thanks oag - I do spell it sometimes, but I do sometimes feel I should make attempts at being polite for some fucking reason.