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U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Re: U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Post by account42 »

ultra_nick wrote: post #94

People work twice as much for the same wage. Most households now have two full time workers. Strangers raise our kids. Affordable small houses are no longer built. There're few legal or free places to rest. The rich pay significantly less taxes than when America was in its prime. Poverty is the cause. The US will only get worse until citizens vote for corporations to pay their historical tax rates and reduce outsourc…

> People work twice as much for the same wage. Most households now have two full time workers.

It's really absurd how accepted/unnoticed this regression is. And of course it also makes the isolation problem worse as now single person households will be able to afford even less.

Re: U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Post by latency-guy2 »

jackmott42 wrote: post #34
candiddevmike wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an unfounded theory that it's all related to our diet and the food we eat.

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I agree, jackmott42's problems reflects the entirety of the US problems. Let's make sure only jackmott42's issues in life are resolved, we'll start by eliminating all of those nasty trumpers from society. Then we'll donate $50 each to jackmott42 so their nearly 2 standard deviation from the mean and average income is no longer penny pinching.

Let's also build a fort around jackmott42, so they are completely safe from all their enemies, imagined or not.

As for the rest of us? Who cares. The only thing that matters is jackmott42.

Re: U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Post by NopeSlide »

the_af wrote: post #54
shipscode wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depression isn't taboo or stigmatized anymore? There's plenty of government forms you'll have to check a box and explain if you've been depressed still. Maybe it's more of a lack of awareness of the taboo and stigmatization.

Depression definitely still has a stigma associated to it. Both "it's not a real disease, you are not dying of something" and "it's not real, just snap out of it!".

There's a third option: depression is not a real disease, it is the correct response to what has been done to you, and there are people who should be held responsible for that.

Re: U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Post by NopeSlide »

olalonde wrote: post #103
MattGaiser wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

History of left handedness: https://slowrevealgraphs.com/2021/11/08/rate-of-left-handedn... Nothing caused the population of left handed people to soar. We just stopped hitting them in schools for using their left hands.

Not a big fan of this comparison. Just because it was true of left-handedness doesn't mean it's true for other things. It also shows that hitting left-handed kids in schools was actually working, whereas it's not possible to "cure" depression or sexual orientation this way.

Actually sexual orientation is fluid and can be adjusted through acclimatization, it's how pedophilia is treated, it just doesn't work on unwilling participants. People who are straight occasionally do become bi or gay, and vice versa.

Re: U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Post by latency-guy2 »

sieongioetnio wrote: post #114
chrisco255 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's something about yourself you should evaluate if you can't fathom someone else thinking differently than you, and you let those things affect your mood and happiness. Also, I don't know if you saw the Durham report, but there's plenty of more reasons to be troubled with the established players in Washington: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/politics/john-durham-report-f...

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Why didn't you reply to the OP of this thread then? Presumably you're here to spread compassion.

I think you're using it as a weapon to troll.

Re: U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Post by m_fayer »

ultra_nick wrote: post #94

People work twice as much for the same wage. Most households now have two full time workers. Strangers raise our kids. Affordable small houses are no longer built. There're few legal or free places to rest. The rich pay significantly less taxes than when America was in its prime. Poverty is the cause. The US will only get worse until citizens vote for corporations to pay their historical tax rates and reduce outsourc…

I support UBI but it’s not in the cards any time soon, fine.

Then, we should aim for one overarching economic policy target: most people should be able to land a job that would enable them to generously house, feed and equip one adult and several children without working themselves to the bone. This should include a reasonable amount of leisure and luxuries, and a thorough safety net.

How to achieve this? I’m not sure. I’m open to ideas from all sides of the political spectrum as long as the goal is achieved.

This should really be our bare minimum, if we’re going to insist on thinking of ourselves as an advanced society.

Short of that, I truly don’t know what all of this is really for.

Re: U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Post by a_shovel »

lordloki wrote: post #104
kayodelycaon wrote: post #33

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This is, quite literally, the best and safest time in the history of the US to be openly LGBT. This sounds like a reddit comment. I suggest getting offline for a bit and actually spending time with other people in real life.

This is a common sentiment that misses the point. Human happiness isn't based on how good or bad things are in absolute terms, it's based on whether things are getting better or worse.

Also, there's no need to insult other users.

Re: U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Post by Mezzie »

olalonde wrote: post #48
petercooper wrote: post #11

The 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.

The observed increase could be attributed to two key factors: 1) The rate may have been constant over time, but we're only now observing the "true" rate because societal taboos have decreased. 2) The diagnostic criteria may have lowered over time. Thus, we may now be diagnosing people who wouldn't have previously met the criteria for diagnosis. I've been wondering the same about the notable rise in self-identified LG…

One change is that bisexual people are more likely to come out. This has actually had some interesting effects on queer spaces over the past 30 years: Most of them used to be populated by homosexuals but now most queer spaces seem to be mostly bi/pan. Basically a lot of people who either only date or settle down with the opposite sex can be openly queer now whereas before there was no social benefit to telling someone you're bisexual.

I still find it weird when queer spaces are full of people in hetero relationships but the demographics make sense.

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