WV moves from 7th to #1 in Mental Health Issues

.... Just when you thought that the elusive National Championship was out of reach. We also use more tobacco and drugs than anyone. This seems unrelated to why Mollohan would buy ocean front property in the Carolinas; but maybe we're too nuts for him or he's trying to avoid our depression.

West Virginians are more likely to report “severe psychological distress” than people in any other state, according to a new survey.

One in eight West Virginian adults said they had a serious mental-health problem in 2004, according to the survey released last week by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

West Virginia saw a significant increase between 2003 and 2004 in the percentage of adults reporting a significant mental-health problem, from 10.3 percent to 12.7 percent. The national average was 9.6 percent.