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    Default Why Is America So Depressed?

    It’s no coincidence that our politics and our mental health have declined so rapidly, at the same time.

    Everyone has his or her own definition of a political crisis. Mine is when our collective mental health starts having a profound effect on our politics — and vice versa.

    It cannot be a simple coincidence that the two have declined in tandem. The American Psychiatric Association reported that from 2016 to 2017, the proportion of adults who described themselves as more anxious than the previous year was 36 percent. In 2017, more than 17 million American adults had at least one major depressive episode, as did three million adolescents ages 12 to 17. Forty million adults now suffer from an anxiety disorder — nearly 20 percent of the adult population. (These are the known cases of depression and anxiety. The actual numbers must be dumbfounding.)

    The really sorrowful reports concern suicide. Among all Americans, the suicide rate increased by 33 percent between 1999 and 2017.

    All of this mental carnage is occurring at a time when decades of social and political division have set against each other black and white, men and women, old and young. Beyond bitter social antagonisms, the country is racked by mass shootings, the mind-bending perils of the internet, revelations of widespread sexual predation, the worsening effects of climate change, virulent competition, the specter of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, grinding student debt and crises in housing, health care and higher education. The frightening environment helps cause depression, depression causes catastrophic thinking, and catastrophic thinking makes the environment seem even more terrifying than it is.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/o...ica-trump.html





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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    Putin wanted Americans triggered by the chaos

    so i am doing my best to give him what he wanted
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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    Putin wanted Americans triggered by the chaos

    hense all the snowflake and triggering talk
    spot on, destabilizing American politics is has always been Putin's main goal, followed by eliminating any thread from NATO (he's already fucking with Belarus bigtime)

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    Simple answer, 8 years of Obama, things are looking up though!

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    Because the rednecks voted in a criminal clown dumbshit maniac to be president.

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    "Why Is America So Depressed?"

    People are frustrated because they are stressed out. Personal peace of mind is elusive. Many things are blamed, usually looking outward when the solution can often be found by looking inward.
    Personal Ignore Policy PIP: I like civil discourse. I will give you all the respect in the world if you respect me. Mouth off to me, or express overt racism, you will be PERMANENTLY Ignore Listed. Zero tolerance. No exceptions. I'll never read a word you write, even if quoted by another, nor respond to you, nor participate in your threads. ... Ignore the shallow. Cherish the thoughtful. Long Live Civil Discourse, Mutual Respect, and Good Debate! ps: Feel free to adopt my PIP. It works well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    Putin wanted Americans triggered by the chaos

    hense all the snowflake and triggering talk
    Why do you constantly suck Putin’s dick ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    link

    I don't share you love of Putins penis
    All you talk about is Putin .....

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    I'm only depressed to know that 48% of the people voted for Hillary- and only 45% voted for Donald Trump- but yet Donald Trump is the one in the White House.

    That's fucking depressing! Sorry!

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    The only people "depressed" in this country are Democrats and liberals. They have been since 2016. No one of consequence cares.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    The only people "depressed" in this country are Democrats and liberals. They have been since 2016. No one of consequence cares.
    how unAmerican of you

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    The only people "depressed" in this country are Democrats and liberals. They have been since 2016. No one of consequence cares.
    Oh no, honey, not at all. Yes, we've been disheartened as TRE45ON has done what one inept corrupt clown can do to destroy environmental protections, women's reproductive freedom, international relations, small farming ops, the Constitution, and the dignity of our nation. But that's balanced by watching the entire world mock IMPOTUS and those like you who continue to slavishly lap his shoes with your drying tongues. He's comedy gold!

    From the all-day-every-day screeching, personal attacks, filth, anger, rage, and venom you Reichwingers spew here every day, I'd say it's not the left who is suffering depression.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Oh no, honey, not at all. Yes, we've been disheartened as TRE45ON has done what one inept corrupt clown can do to destroy environmental protections, women's reproductive freedom, international relations, small farming ops, the Constitution, and the dignity of our nation. But that's balanced by watching the entire world mock IMPOTUS and those like you who continue to slavishly lap his shoes with your drying tongues. He's comedy gold!

    From the all-day-every-day screeching, personal attacks, filth, anger, rage, and venom you Reichwingers spew here every day, I'd say it's not the left who is suffering depression.
    Nah. You are all just depressed and whining. And it is getting worse.

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