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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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
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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!
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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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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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Also the ones that would have killed themselves without help are getting some help and they live nowadays...
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Do you have a hypothesis about the relatively higher rates in Anglophone and W. Europe countries?
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Access to diagnosis
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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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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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chances are you indeed are
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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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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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