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Uh, did you miss the part of Sweden being one of the largest consumers of anti-depressants? Remove those drugs and retake the survey and see how well Sweden doe

• fsloth 10y ago
  It's hardly the largest http://www.businessinsider.com/countries-largest-antidepressant-drug-users-2016-2?r=US&IR=T&IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/countries-largest-antidepress... Also, as the article states "It's difficult to say exactly what the data tell us. Antidepressant use is not an accurate window into rates of depression. Instead, the popularity of antidepressants in a given country is the result of a complicated mix of depression rates, stigma, wealth, health coverage, and availability of treatment." US seems to be leading the pack and from cross referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_irreligion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_irreligio... if we do bad statistics, we can conclude that since sweden has lower antidepressant use and higher secularity than US, religion actually causes psychiatric illness. But what the data actually tells us is that it's pretty damn hard to pull any causality between secularism and antidepressant use.