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.
U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs
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#52they point to the pandemic as the source of the issue but rates have been rising significantly since 2011...
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#53The 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.
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#54The 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 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.
Both "it's not a real disease, you are not dying of something" and "it's not real, just snap out of it!".
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#55In the last few years inflation has hurt the fuck out of all but the richest Americans. Financial stress leads to depression. Add both political parties are constantly telling us the other side is ruining everything and it's just piling it on. A recession is here/coming.
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#56Humans evolved to be physically social, is 100% remote really the right direction for American society?
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#57+ crappy diet
+ addicted to porn
= depression
surprised?
fix those three, depression will vanish
pills will not fix it
your therapist is incentivized to keep you "sick"
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#58In the last few years inflation has hurt the fuck out of all but the richest Americans. Financial stress leads to depression. Add both political parties are constantly telling us the other side is ruining everything and it's just piling it on. A recession is here/coming.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/05/economy/real-wages-inflation/...
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#59Earlier 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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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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#60In the last few years inflation has hurt the fuck out of all but the richest Americans. Financial stress leads to depression. Add both political parties are constantly telling us the other side is ruining everything and it's just piling it on. A recession is here/coming.
Are people today more apt to become depressed, are we conditioned to get more depressed, or is diagnosis better, or are we classifying and identifying more things as depression?
Back then we had no social services, no soup kitchens, "food stamps" etc. There was no governmental help (other than job creation such as WPA). There may have been more social cohesion and more reliance on the (extended) family though.