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To: RummyChick

Strange part is rich people are depressed much more often than poor people in poor countries who struggle every day just to get food.


10 posted on 04/30/2022 1:34:13 PM PDT by entropy12 (Blockade of Cuba by USA was OK by neocons, but Russia must tolerate NATO weapons on its border!)
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To: entropy12
Strange part is rich people are depressed much more often than poor people in poor countries who struggle every day just to get food.

Benjamin Franklin said, "The poor man must work to find the food for his stomach. The rich man must work to find the stomach for his food."

40 posted on 04/30/2022 2:02:02 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: entropy12

you answered your own thought.

“poor” people spend their life trying to survive—they dont have the “luxury” or time for depression and mental illness—and if they are truly mentally ill, they generally wont survive in the herd for too long.

“rich” people spend their life trying to justify their existence leaving a lot more room for “thoughts” to get into their heads, spiraling into full blown mental illness.

I’ll sum it all up with a rough quote from William Holden’s last movie (i think), The Earthling:
“If you ain’t surviving, then you’re dying.”

Or something like that!


65 posted on 04/30/2022 2:27:56 PM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: entropy12

It’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to reach the kingdom of God.

All the ‘stuff’ ends up owning you. It’s stressful and expensive to be rich and you worry constantly about losing it all


86 posted on 04/30/2022 2:41:25 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: entropy12
Strange part is rich people are depressed much more often than poor people in poor countries who struggle every day just to get food.

That is a little misleading because I remember hearing DJ's on the radio when they first started out saying she was a divorced homeless mother with two young children.   It may have been intentional to travel where the fame could be found, but that is what they said at the time.

138 posted on 05/01/2022 12:00:24 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: entropy12

Likely a chemical imbalance depression. I know what that’s like. That’s very difficult to deal with and overcome, and has nothing to do with a person’s wealth.


140 posted on 05/01/2022 1:38:31 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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