Here we have another: Darwin Award Winner!
Posted on 01/02/2020 2:15:35 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
Everyone has his or her own definition of a political crisis. Mine is when our collective mental health starts having a profound effect on our politics — and vice versa.
It cannot be a simple coincidence that the two have declined in tandem. The American Psychiatric Association reported that from 2016 to 2017, the number of adults who described themselves as more anxious than the previous year rose 36 percent. In 2017, more than 17 million American adults had a new diagnosis of a major depressive disorder, as well as three million adolescents ages 12 to 17. Forty million adults now suffer from an anxiety disorder — nearly 20 percent of the adult population. (These are the known cases of depression and anxiety. The actual numbers must be dumbfounding.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
If one chances upon Rachel Madcow, that’ll ruin their mental outlook for weeks, even months.
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The Slimes and their minions are apparently in a existential spin due to TDS.
They are apparently unable to pull out and will auger in.
China’s influencers and propaganda?
I imagine it is only the same people who start violence at Trump rallies
NYTs should look in a mirror
Depression in a non time of war is common. One has time for depression. In time of war it is all about survival. One has no time for depression least one become dead due the inability to fight.
Mankind Had The Best Decade Yet: Humanity Grew Richer and More Sustainable in the 2010s
PJ Media ^ | 12/31/2019 | Tyler O’ Neill
Posted on 12/31/2019, 8:45:30 AM by
Over the last ten years, energy production has become cheaper and more efficient, Americans and Britons have started to consume fewer resources even as their standards of living increased, and greenhouse gas emissions have decreased. Contrary to the fearmongering of radicals like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Grow Yucca in NYC), life has gotten better for humans and the environment in the past decade.
Writing for Britain’s Spectator magazine, Matt Ridley explained that the 2010s have seen “the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 per cent of the world’s population for the first time. It was 60 per cent when I was born. Global inequality has been plunging as Africa and Asia experience faster economic growth than Europe and North America; child mortality has fallen to record low levels; famine virtually went extinct; malaria, polio and heart disease are all in decline.”
News often focuses on the tragedies — horrific mass shootings, poverty in Venezuela, war and civil strife in the Middle East — while ignoring the broad positive trends in living standards. Tragedies have been a fact of life for as long as humans walked the earth, but the increasing living standards are new and less shocking.
One of the greatest untold successes of the 2010s involved the decreasing cost of energy and the expansion of energy sources, especially among renewables.
The shale oil revolution from horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which started in 2006 but peaked in the past decade, nearly helped make the United States a net energy exporter for the first time since 1953.
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I feel grateful to have been born at the best time in history, in the best country and living conditions in all of human history. I live better than most kings and royalty in all of human history...how could I have been more fortunate?...
I think human beings in general tend towards depression.
When a society is affluent they can spend time and money, probably often uselessly, on combatting it. Unlike when you are a serf or a galley slave or a 16 hour per day tradesman.
Here we have another: Darwin Award Winner!
“The American Psychiatric Association reported that from 2016 to 2017, the number of adults who described themselves as more anxious than the previous year rose 36 percent.”
Yeah, right.
People would be a lot happier is Lee stopped writing garbage essays and the APA started publishing accurate information.
Easy answer. America is full of Democrats.
“The American Psychiatric Association reported that from 2016 to 2017, the number of adults who described themselves as more anxious than the previous year rose 36 percent”
This same damn organization approves of giving small children drugs to alter their bodies to become either male or female despite the fact of their birth gender. This is child abuse in the extreme.
My two children are straight. If either decided to be transgender that is their decision once they are adults and not a child. It is that damn simple.
To impose this on a child whom does not know who he or her is in during youth is obscene in the extreme. I played with dolls during my youth. I played with them because the most lovely young girls likes playing with dolls. It was a small price to pay to be with them. I actually preferred my “Roy Rogers Cap Gun.”
They have become a political organization totally devoid of medical science. They are simply to be ignored. They have abandoned science and become political activists.
“Those 17 million depressed adult children need to go to boot camp for about 3 months and get their asses kicked but a gunny.”
Or, they could turn out like “Private Pyle”.
Unless you were under artillery fire during a Banzai attack on Iwo Jima, you better not tell my father you were “anxious”.
FakeNewsMSM have been pushing this line ever since Trump became President.
When a person’s delusions meet reality, they often get depressed. The entire left has been feeling that since Trump won.
Well......... to begin with.......half the population is psychotic and insane with hatred for the Greatest President in US history!
Oh you silly people in a bubble! Nobody is depressed but you.
I’m not anxious, or depressed; not chronically. Those two are, when felt, always linked to specific experiences, and generally related to news of my health and awaiting lab results. Stuff like that, and they don’t longer for long.
On the contrary, now that moving from IL seems financially feasible, I’m feeling oddly hopeful.
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