We're All Nuts: I missed this news - more than 50% of Americans will develop mental illness at some point in their lives. I confess, there are many days when this strikes me as accurate, but Dr. McHugh has it right:

"Fifty percent of Americans mentally impaired - are you kidding me?" said Dr. Paul McHugh, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University.

While the new survey was carefully done, Dr. McHugh said, "the problem is that the diagnostic manual we are using in psychiatry is like a field guide and it just keeps expanding and expanding."

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

I guess it depends on what your definition of "impaired" is. Increasingly, it just means not feeling 100% honky-dory.