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10 Most Depressing States
Health.com ^ | 15 November 2011 | Staff

Posted on 11/17/2011 9:13:31 AM PST by 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]:

(Excerpt) Read more at health.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; US: Michigan; US: Mississippi; US: Missouri; US: Nevada; US: Oklahoma; US: Tennessee; US: West Virginia
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Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississipi, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma,Tennessee and West Virginia.
1 posted on 11/17/2011 9:13:32 AM PST by bjorn14
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Do they all have high unemployment by chance?


2 posted on 11/17/2011 9:15:45 AM PST by ontap
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Tennessee? LOL...that’s why so many people are moving INTO the state...it’s a depressing sh*thole...LOLOL!


3 posted on 11/17/2011 9:17:39 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: bjorn14
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'.
4 posted on 11/17/2011 9:19:08 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: bjorn14

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.


5 posted on 11/17/2011 9:22:04 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: bjorn14

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


6 posted on 11/17/2011 9:22:33 AM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: bjorn14
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.

7 posted on 11/17/2011 9:23:14 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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To: trussell

Ping


8 posted on 11/17/2011 9:23:43 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: bjorn14

WJAT?!!!

They missed a chance to bash Alabama?

Amazing.


9 posted on 11/17/2011 9:23:46 AM PST by chesley (Eat what you want, and die like a man. Never trust anyone who hasn't been punched in the face)
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To: andy58-in-nh

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.


10 posted on 11/17/2011 9:25:05 AM PST by chris_bdba
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To: who knows what evil?
Maybe it's because of the music.

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

11 posted on 11/17/2011 9:25:38 AM PST by daler
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Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississipi, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma,Tennessee and West Virginia.

Obvious: Michigan and Nevada.

Surprising: Oklahoma and Tennessee.

12 posted on 11/17/2011 9:27:29 AM PST by cicero2k
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Nevada is NOT a depressing state.


13 posted on 11/17/2011 9:29:01 AM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: andy58-in-nh
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.

14 posted on 11/17/2011 9:29:08 AM PST by oyez
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They’re happy in California!
“Wheeeeee!!!!! I’m unemployed and Jerry Brown is my governor! Wheeeeee!!!!!”


15 posted on 11/17/2011 9:29:14 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: cicero2k

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


16 posted on 11/17/2011 9:29:39 AM PST by edcoil (I grew up in a country that was honest, I am growing old in a country that is not. I am sorry.)
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To: daler

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


17 posted on 11/17/2011 9:29:52 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: bjorn14
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!


18 posted on 11/17/2011 9:30:49 AM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: who knows what evil?

yes, laffer moved to tennessee from san diego.


19 posted on 11/17/2011 9:31:10 AM PST by ken21
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To: bjorn14

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


20 posted on 11/17/2011 9:32:59 AM PST by SoJoCo
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