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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Apr 26

    Some critics have faulted Enlightenment Now for ignoring "soaring" rates of mental health disorders. The reality is that rates are stable. See e,g, Global Burden of Disease, "Share of population with mental health and substance use disorders."https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-with-mental-and-substance-disorders?tab=chart …

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      2. Peter Shea‏ @pshea99 Apr 26
        Replying to @sapinker

        This is fascinating data, but it conflates issues like anxiety and depression with drug and alcohol abuse and eating disorders. These may be related, but dis-aggregating the data might show different patterns? Not sure...

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      3. Max Roser‏Verified account @MaxCRoser Apr 26
        Replying to @pshea99 @sapinker

        You find all that you are looking for in our entry (where this map comes from): https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health  and in the related ones on our site

        2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
      4. Emil‏ @emilhsodergren Apr 28
        Replying to @MaxCRoser @pshea99 @sapinker

        I'm so glad I discovered this fantastic site. For two hours straight I've been looking at all kinds of entries and sliding that timeframe gauge. The world's improvements are astonishing. Thank you! @OurWorldInData

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      2. Paul Roundy‏ @PaulRoundy1 Apr 26
        Replying to @sapinker

        We have become much better at categorizing and diagnosing mental health disorders. Increases the detection rate, so it can make conditions appear to be getting worse.

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      3. James Elliott-Hughes‏ @JamesElliottHu1 Apr 27
        Replying to @PaulRoundy1 @sapinker

        Exactly, I see some people attribute the soaring rates to younger generations being less adapt at coping but I think it’s that we’re more adept at recognising and diagnosing them now. Would be interesting to see the numbers if today’s practices were done on earlier generations.

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      4. AmbassadorOfPeace‏ @PeaceAndEmpathy Apr 30
        Replying to @JamesElliottHu1 @PaulRoundy1 @sapinker

        Also the ones that would have killed themselves without help are getting some help and they live nowadays...

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      2. Matthew Downhour‏ @MatthewDownhour Apr 26
        Replying to @sapinker

        Do you have a hypothesis about the relatively higher rates in Anglophone and W. Europe countries?

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      3. Not that Dr. J‏ @JustinMBoudreau Apr 26
        Replying to @MatthewDownhour @sapinker

        Access to diagnosis

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      4. Matthew Downhour‏ @MatthewDownhour Apr 26
        Replying to @JustinMBoudreau @sapinker

        That was my initial thought - so why so few diagnoses in RoK or Japan? Cultural differences affecting who chooses to seek a diagnoses/who gets one?

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      2. Jean Twenge‏ @jean_twenge Apr 27
        Replying to @sapinker

        Rates of teen depression in the U.S. are unfortunately not stable -- they are soaring. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/138/6/e20161878.full.pdf …

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      2. OκULTRA XP 🧿‏ @0K_ultra Apr 26
        Replying to @unambiorix @sapinker

        chances are you indeed are

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      4. OκULTRA XP 🧿‏ @0K_ultra Apr 27
        Replying to @unambiorix @sapinker

        because world started in 1999pic.twitter.com/AqygYr5TZt

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      6. OκULTRA XP 🧿‏ @0K_ultra Apr 27
        Replying to @unambiorix @sapinker

        For about the same reason steam engine was invented in Roman Egypt in 1 AD but there were relatively few steam engines, let alone "trains" between 1 AD and 1800AD methinks

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      8. OκULTRA XP 🧿‏ @0K_ultra Apr 27
        Replying to @unambiorix @sapinker

        And design sophistication (in cases of steam engine, includes material science permitting boilers and valves and stuff capable of handling pressures significantly higher than what the 1 AD design could)

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