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https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_2720/Spotlight-2720.html https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_2720/... "SERIOUS MENTAL
by throwaway5752 5y ago
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_2720/Spotlight-2720.html https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_2720/... "SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS AMONG ADULTS BELOW THE POVERTY LINE" (this is simply the first result I found in a large body of research on the mental and physical cost of poverty)
It is worth focusing on the ways in which you are lucky, and it puts some of the stress in perspective. We are living in challenging times - environmental, economic, and societal change. Everyone is experiencing this stress in different ways.
- fsociety 5y agoIt sounds like you are saying this is first world problems. Instead, for anyone else reading, I’ll suggest that making your own issues smaller makes it impossible to deal with them. Yes, people under the poverty line have it harder but it does not diminish your own problems in life.
- throwaway5752 5y agoI don't know that my short comment required you to restate my point, and in a way that I don't quite agree with. But I appreciate your different viewpoint. I think people should seek treatment and therapy for mental health problems, but it is worth focusing on positive things, also. They are not mutually exclusive.