Obvious lockdown residue. Could also be COVID itself but far fewer people were directly affected by that.
U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs
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#32> Clinical depression had been slowly rising in the U.S. prior to the COVID-19 pandemic but has jumped notably in its wake.
That finger points at the social isolation hypothesis (though is obviously not hard proof).
I wonder if social media is to socializing what fake sugars are to real. It occupies the same sort of space without the benefits, and is more desirable on the surface while generally being worse for you. It's a discount but more easily obtained substitute.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Statements like this need more of a thesis. There are not enough details in your comment to have any kind of a productive, non-flamebait discussion.
To me, putting them in there place could mean: - Revoke their "personhood" - Tax them appropriately - Prevent them from being too big to fail - Hold their officers accountable - Prevent them from hiring public officials But I'm open to other ideas!
I would add many more, but a big one:
- significantly diminish limited liability. If your corp causes a chemical spill that kills many people, the executives should be put on trial for mass murder.
This change creates a large incentive to do the right thing -- like not implicitly killing.
These corporations are not people. They are run by people. We need to start holding those people accountable for their actions. We need to start naming them and attaching their names to the disasters they are causing.
If you are the head of an oil company when a massive spill occurs, not only should you live in poverty for the rest of your life, but you should probably be in a jail cell for the rest of your life as well for being a danger to society in the pursuit of personal riches.
If we can throw people in prison for carrying certain rocks for all their life, I think this is more than reasonable.
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Ultimately individuals are responsible for their own emotions. There are unjust elements in society and there have always been unjust elements in society. Where you lay the blame is besides the point in this discussion about depression. People need more effective coping mechanisms. Even with little to no money, happiness is possible for people around the world. Why then is one of the world's richest and most producti…
Would you say the same to a black enslaved man in the 18th century? Or to a Jewish awaiting his death in a nazi concentration prison? Or to a Palestinian deported from his home? There can always be rules or laws that are directly responsible to people suffering and depression.
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#37I find it hard to detach from work and focus on my well-being. Work from home was convenient and necessary to a certain extent but I miss being able to get off the clock as soon as I left company doors at the end of the day.
The in person jobs are the ones having issues recruiting, so it should be easier for you to change that situation than the opposite at least.
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#38I find it hard to detach from work and focus on my well-being. Work from home was convenient and necessary to a certain extent but I miss being able to get off the clock as soon as I left company doors at the end of the day.
I set up everything to basically turn off at 6. Close the work laptop, and either set up time based notifications for everything on my phone, or a work profile (Android) that I turn off. While meetings have had a tendency to spread out (due to more spread out teams and trying to make calendars work), so I have a bit less time detached, I still feel like I'm able to detach, even with my work area being the same as my personal PC (though I step away from that for a decent amount of time as well).
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#39The rates of people diagnosed with depression. Things that were once taboos, had stigma attached to them, or were poorly defined may once have been more often kept under wraps. See ADHD or ASD diagnosis rates, for example.
Depression is not a disease for most people.
In the context of the article - and in most conversations - depression is short hand for "clinical depression" or "major depressive episode", i.e. the form where it is a disease, not the normal feeling of short-term depression after a bad event.
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