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At least as measured by suicide rates in the US your grandmothers likely generation new quite well what depression was even if the word didn’t matter. Between t
by kasey_junk 2y ago
At least as measured by suicide rates in the US your grandmothers likely generation new quite well what depression was even if the word didn’t matter. Between the 1920s and the end of WW2 the suicide rate per 100000 was lowest at 15 but reached almost 22.
The pandemic rate which caused (rightly) lots of angst and introspection was 14.3.
We should investigate what is causing increased levels of depression currently but we shouldn’t assume it was absent in other generations when we do it.
https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-us-suicide-rates-since-1900/ https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-us-suicide-rates-since-19...
- hxriv 2y agoShould have let the op continue their victim blaming tirade. Was just getting good.
- leobg 2y agoPoint taken. Can’t get more textbook survivorship bias. :)
- xhevahir 2y ago> At least as measured by suicide rates in the US your grandmothers likely generation new quite well what depression was even if the word didn’t matter. They knew what suffering was, and arguably did more of it. But very few of them thought of it as a primarily medical problem, one requiring intervention by professionals, medicine, and so on. People who think of their problems in this newer way handle them differently, and not always better.