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A national survey showed that more than 70% of all respondents favored banning gun sales to the seriously mentally ill, whereas support for restricting high-capacity magazines varied according to news accounts read just before the survey (figure). McGinty et al. (p. 494) report that baseline support for a ban of large magazines was 48%, whereas the rate among respondents who read a fictional story of a mass shooting by a mentally ill man using a large magazine was 57%, which rose to 69% when the account also mentioned legislation proposing such a ban. In their editorial, Friedman and Michels (p. 455) discuss issues raised by recent legislative efforts to link mental illness with gun violence.

Extended extreme fatigue with at least one associated symptom was identified in 3% of 10,123 adolescents in a representative U.S. sample. About half had the fatigue syndrome only, and about half also had a depressive or anxiety disorder. Lamers et al. (CME, p. 502) report that the rate of severe or very severe disability was nearly 60% in the adolescents with the fatigue syndrome only, but only 12% had received any health care for it. However, note Bleijenberg and Knoop in an editorial (p. 459), the natural course of chronic fatigue syndrome in adolescents is much more favorable than the course in adults.