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> "While the numbers listed above (and below) are valuable and vital, it is important to keep in mind that the true rates are likely much higher, especially in less developed countries. Depression is much more likely to be diagnosed in highly developed countries, whose more robust health care infrastructures are far better equipped to identify and treat mental illnesses." This is an important quote from the article,…
> "While the numbers listed above (and below) are valuable and vital, it is important to keep in mind that the true rates are likely much higher, especially in less developed countries. Depression is much more likely to be diagnosed in highly developed countries, whose more robust health care infrastructures are far better equipped to identify and treat mental illnesses." This is an important quote from the article,…
I understand but reject their presumption.
When people get stuck in a routine (job, city, hobby, political view, whatever) where they're focused mainly on the outcome rather than the process. Extreme long term thinking.
Alienation, that sort of thing.
It's common to say it's "under diagnosed" in places where people live more natural lives but I think this is correlation rather than causation.
> "While the numbers listed above (and below) are valuable and vital, it is important to keep in mind that the true rates are likely much higher, especially in less developed countries. Depression is much more likely to be diagnosed in highly developed countries, whose more robust health care infrastructures are far better equipped to identify and treat mental illnesses." This is an important quote from the article,…
I understand but reject their presumption.
One surprise in these numbers is that Africa seems to be doing better than Latin America when I would have expected them to be close to each other given the economic difficulties, violence and lack of perspective for large swaths of the population.
Often times what is understood by first-worlders as "depression" is a cluster of problems that uniquely affect decently well-off people who have been spiritually and physically subjugated by an spiritually blank industrial bureaucracy. If you measure stress, hunger, sorrow, fear, scarcity, etc. you'll find higher levels among the global poor, but if you measure "malaise, sadness, lack of purpose, emptiness, yearning…
> "While the numbers listed above (and below) are valuable and vital, it is important to keep in mind that the true rates are likely much higher, especially in less developed countries. Depression is much more likely to be diagnosed in highly developed countries, whose more robust health care infrastructures are far better equipped to identify and treat mental illnesses." This is an important quote from the article,…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1bmna2e/fertility_... Or to quote Bertrand Russle: > There were once upon a time two sausage machines, exquisitely constructed for the purpose of turning pig into the most delicious sausages. One of these retained his zest for pig and produced sausages innumerable; the other said: 'What is pig to me? My own works are far more interesting and wonderful than any pig.' He refuse…
This is essentially just (an extremely elegant) rephrasing of Marx's theory of alienation
One surprise in these numbers is that Africa seems to be doing better than Latin America when I would have expected them to be close to each other given the economic difficulties, violence and lack of perspective for large swaths of the population.
>> I would have expected them to be close to each other given the economic difficulties, violence and lack of perspective What's wrong with violence? I never found violence to be depressing. For me it was sort of the opposite as a young man.