Posted on 11/30/2007 8:08:07 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans report having excellent mental health, compared to 43% of independents and 38% of Democrats. This relationship between party identification and reports of excellent mental health persists even within categories of income, age, gender, church attendance, and education.
The basic data -- based on an aggregated sample of more than 4,000 interviews conducted since 2004 -- are straightforward.
The differences are quite significant, as can be seen. While Democrats are slightly less likely to report excellent mental health than are independents, the big distinctions in these data are the differences between Republicans and everyone else.
One could be quick to assume that these differences are based on the underlying demographic and socioeconomic patterns related to party identification in America today. A recent Gallup report (see "Strong Relationship Between Income and Mental Health" in Related Items) reviewed these mental health data more generally, and found that men, those with higher incomes, those with higher education levels, and whites are more likely than others to report excellent mental health. Some of these patterns describe characteristics of Republicans, of course.
But an analysis of the relationship between party identification and self-reported excellent mental health within various categories of age, gender, church attendance, income, education, and other variables shows that the basic pattern persists regardless of these characteristics. In other words, party identification appears to have an independent effect on mental health even when each of these is controlled for.
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
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Other side of the story ping.
Is BDS an officially diagnosed mental illness now?
Sheesh, the DUmmies seem to revel in posting about thier mental problems and medications.
Worse than that, BDS is a politically protected illness and qualifies those who suffer from it for the employees with disabilities act...
Do they swap meds?
Probably, they seem to swap everything else.
“Liberalism is a mental disorder”
If you go to DU, they actually have an entire "Mental Health Support Group" forum dedicted to mental illnesses among their members. It's one of their bigger forums.
There’s no way to “feel* like a Democrat” without taking on a heaping helping of cognitive dissonance. That, in turn, takes a toll on your mental health.
*I started to say “THINK like a Democrat”, but Democrats can’t possibly arrive at their contorted positions by logical thinking.
Analyzing Catch 22.
The chicken and the egg.
Where are the Libertarians reported? Oh, they’re probably stoned anyway.
Everybody’s crazy but thee and me, and sometimes I wonder about thee.
ROTFLOL!!
Thus, Ann Coulter’s book title “If Democrats had brains they would be Republicans” is a pure scientific truth.
If Leftists--the Democrat Party is their Political Machine--were not psychotics, sociopaths, or other assorted nutcases, they wouldn't be Leftists in the first place.
In fact, the Decadence that threatens the Western World, including the U.S.A., like the Black Plague of ages past, only more deadly, IS a mental illness. And Leftists, by definition, are afflicted with it.
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