Has anyone seen any good theories as to why depression and anxiety appear to be at all time highs in the 20-40 cohort? Or maybe it just SEEMS that way. Looking for really thoughtful analysis, not just glib “well have you seen the world around you” type answers
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Hard to distinguish genuine trends from increasing medicalization of stuff that, in the past, would have just been written off as "the human condition."
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I actually do get the sense more people are depressed/anxious just looking at behavioral and self reported trends in friend groups maybe selection bias idk But unclear why
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im extremely the least depressed and anxious I've ever been uh excepting the last 24h but there have been circumstances and they will pass
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One of the more robust metrics Haidt points to is the rate of self-harm hospital admissionshttps://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1083018993991077888 …
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also plausibly memetic :/ dont really trust this either
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Trends in suicides don't have the same measurement issues.
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suicide is possibly super memetic
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This. These are incredibly subjective "diagnoses", let's stop pretending that they are objective measurements.
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I am THE normal man.
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