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Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Lol. I am surprised TRL hadn't replied. Probably got a gag order from his superiors.

TRL is busy dealing with temptations, trying to decide which media invitations to accept while juggling deadlines. So much good stuff to choose from, where to start? Anyways, it's just a Gallup poll. Mull over stuff like this for some real angst:

Mental disorders in Singapore

Over the last decade, the prevalence of mental disorders, the extent of disability caused by these disorders, and services utilisation of these patients have been well studied in a number of developed countries (Britain, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan).

In Singapore, we have yet to make a comprehensive and detailed study of the rates of the myriad of mental disorders and its protean consequences. The studies to date have mainly established the prevalence of a rather limited range of mental disorders without examining the levels of disability, treatment gaps and the access to care.

Therefore, the aim of this study was to establish the prevalence of select mental disorders and their associated socio-demographic correlates in the adult Singapore resident population.

Among the 6,616 respondents (response rate of 75.9 per cent):

• Up to 12 per cent had at least one lifetime affective, anxiety, or alcohol-use disorders.
  
• The lifetime prevalence of major depressive disoder was 5.8 per cent and that of bipolar disorder was 1.2 per cent.
  
• The combined lifetime prevalence of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and obsessive compulsive disorder was 3.6 per cent, with the latter being more common than GAD (0.9 per cent and 3 per cent respectively).
  
• The lifetime prevalence of alcohol abuse and dependence were 3.1 per cent and 0.5 per cent respectively.

Age, gender, ethnicity, marital status and chronic physical illnesses were all significant correlates of mental disorders.

Published in the National Center for Biotechnology Information. (February 2012)