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how do you square this with the lack of evidence of increased rates of depression etc.?

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Christopher Ingraham

The latest data on happiness from the General Social Survey is truly something else. Nothing remotely like it in the past five decades of polling. thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/new-data-sho

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6:29 PM · Jan 28, 2022Twitter Web App

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Lack of evidence?

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What do you consider evidence of increased depression and anxiety?

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To what lack of evidence are you referring? Try talking to normal people!

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I bought not too happy right at the bottom . LFG!

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Looks like happiness started plummeting when trump took office based on those charts

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Or maybe slightly after?? 🤷‍♂️ some tick marks would be nice

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Suicides, take a look at any national or international statistics on suicides, thats your evidence of depression.

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Have you taken a look?

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lack of therapists -> lack of depression diagnosis just like when crime falls when you stop prosecuting criminals.

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Drug overdoses up, suicides up, homelessness up, mental health hospital admits up.

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Suicides have actually dropped.

Suicide rates fall again — but not for young adults and some people of color

Despite lockdowns, historic job losses and COVID-19, new figures from the CDC show that death by suicide dropped for a second straight year in 2020.

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