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I’m not arguing that people in the past didn’t get depressed. They certainly did. But the rate of depressions and anxiety vs the material comfort level is excep

I’m not arguing that people in the past didn’t get depressed. They certainly did. But the rate of depressions and anxiety vs the material comfort level is exceptional. Suicide rates are the highest they’ve been since WWII and the Great Depression in the US and that’s with nearly a fifth of the population on psychiatric drugs.

watwut 4y ago
Suicides were lowest in 2000 and quite similar in 1950 and 2019. Age adjusted suicide levels are pretty similar now with 1986. Suicide levels during great depression were much higher then now. I just don't see your claim in those data. They go up last 20 years, from the point when they were lowest.