A recent study concludes that roughly a fifth of college-age Americans have personality disorders.
It’s hard to know what to make of this. On the one hand, you shouldn’t trust a bunch of psychiatrists to decide who needs a psychiatrist. But on the other hand, my own experience suggests that theirs is a scrupulously conservative estimate.
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