10 Most Depressing States

Health.com ^ | 15 November 2011 | Staff

[bjorn14]

States of mind

On its own, where you live isn't enough to make you depressed. Personal circumstances and genes also play an important role in mental health, so an area that feels like a downer to one person may be home sweet home to another.

That said, mental distress is unusually and persistently common in some states, whether due to economic troubles, lack of access to health care, or other factors.

Using data from federal health agencies, Health.com has identified the 10 states with the highest rates of depression, psychological distress, and other indicators of poor mental health. Here they are, in alphabetical order [for those of you too lazy to click through the slides]:

[bjorn14]

Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississipi, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma,Tennessee and West Virginia.

[ontap]

Do they all have high unemployment by chance?

[who knows what evil?]

Tennessee? LOL...that’s why so many people are moving INTO the state...it’s a depressing sh*thole...LOLOL!

[andy58-in-nh]

You know, I gotta be somewhat skeptical, especially since an accompanying article in this magazine is entitled: "10 Dating Tips for People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease". Just sayin'.

[vetvetdoug]

According to these experts, I live in one of the most depressing states, have a profession where depression is significant among the practitioners, and am not going to live much longer. I am glad I don’t listen to the so called experts because if I did I’d be in a nut house sustaining on welfare. This health care site is as FOS as a Christmas turkey.

[Jagdgewehr]

Obviously, if liberalism was classified as a mental disorder as it should be, this list would look very different.

[KarlInOhio]

Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, ... and West Virginia.

Maybe Ohio causes depression in neighboring states. Come one Pennsylvania, you just need to realize that life stinks and get down about it.

[EGPWS]

Ping

[chesley]

WJAT?!!!

They missed a chance to bash Alabama?

Amazing.

[chris_bdba]

I get the impression from this that they think anyone who lives in a rural area must be crazy....glad Ohio didn’t make the list.

[daler]

Maybe it's because of the music.

"Well I was drunk the day my ma got out of prison..." comes to mind.

[cicero2k]

Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississipi, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma,Tennessee and West Virginia.

Obvious: Michigan and Nevada.

Surprising: Oklahoma and Tennessee.

[Duchess47]

Nevada is NOT a depressing state.

[oyez]

This Health.Com is a real oasis of learning.

Here is a related article .10. Things That Can Make Incontinence Worse

1. Fluid Intake
2. Alcohol.
3. Coffee and Tea.

The information was so overwhelming at that point I quit reading.

[blueunicorn6]

They’re happy in California!
“Wheeeeee!!!!! I’m unemployed and Jerry Brown is my governor! Wheeeeee!!!!!”

[edcoil]

I read where Washington had the highest depression and suicide rate for women.

[Izzy Dunne]

What does a Kentucky girl say after sex?
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“Get off me Daddy, you’re crushin’ my smokes!”

[re_nortex]

Oklahoma

Just seeing that is enough for me to not even bother reading the liberal trash in the "report". The 2008 presidential election map shows a state that voted 100% against Obama in every single county:

Although I'm in Texas and we have a good-natured rivalry with our neighbors across the Red River, for the most part Oklahomans are pro-God, pro-gun, pro-military and on the side individual liberty. As a Right to Work state, Oklahomans are on the side of freedom unlike the really depressing states shown in yellow:

One more plus accrues to our Sooner friends:

Sings such as this are found throughout Oklahoma at the filling stations. They haven't bought into the ethanol scam.

Oklahoma is OK!

[ken21]

yes, laffer moved to tennessee from san diego.

[SoJoCo]

If Missouri is depressed now wait’ll their football team goes O for 2012 against their new SEC conference mates.