What percent of America is depressed?
“Approximately 8.3% of U.S. adults experience a major depressive episode each year. This translates to about 21 million adults. The prevalence of depression is higher in females (10.3%) than males (6.2%). Additionally, depression affects a larger percentage of younger adults aged 18-25 (18.6%).
The prevalence of depression varies by state, with West Virginia having the highest reported prevalence (27.5%) and Hawaii having the lowest (12.7%). Depression is also more common in those with lower incomes, with over 20% of those with family incomes below the poverty level experiencing depression.”
–only 20%?
These are the most depressed states in the U.S.:
1.West Virginia (29%)
2.Kentucky (27.6%)
3.Vermont (26.6%)
4.Tennessee (26%)
5.Arkansas (25.4%)
6.Oregon (25.3%) (tie)
7.Maine (25.3%) (tie)
8.Louisiana (25.1%) (tie)
9.New Hampshire (25.1%) (tie)
10.Indiana (25.0%) (tie)
11.Oklahoma (25.0%) (tie)
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hey @heartless- your “lovely” state made it to this list, tied for 10th most depressed state in the US.
I had to check; Michigan has a 23% rate, so that’s what I’m looking for, a 2% drop. Meanwhile the state I was born in has an 18.6% (Texas), but there’s no way in hell I’m moving there so forget that…. there’s no way that makes sense, how the hell does that work with Houston?! Don’t get me started on Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott and Hurricanes.
It also shocked me that Missouri is at 23.8%……. because that’s a miserable place to be also, and Kansas is 21.3%.
Just, everything I thought I knew about the midwest, mind blown entirely. People are way happier here than I think they have any right to be. It’s flat, boring, gray most of the year, and people really don’t care about you.
People have more money than on the coasts because of agriculture and some economic stuff, but Mcmansions mean that it all goes into meaningless junk. Fast food, strip malls, if you’ve seen one midwestern city you’ve seen most of them. The culture and actual meaning is so void….
I guess chalk one up to really effective IO psychology, that is the intentional manipulation of people to make them think they are content. Ergonomics, office design, the way those strip malls are built are all meant to make you feel like you are special and important… hence Karens and why a lot of people who don’t need pickups drive them anyway.
The American lifestyle is really more about convincing…… well we aren’t lying to each other here, stupid people to believe that everything is just the same and fine and great. It seems to be working…..
Depression is just the occasion of when it stops working. We’re the errors. Not that we’re necessarily smarter all the time, more that we didn’t get the incentives to shut us up, at least I haven’t yet, I’m working on it.
the other midwestern states, while not officially “top 10 worst,” are still sucky. I mean, even the “top 10 best” still have deplorable rates of depression- just not AS bad as the top 10 worst. but this is what the American ppl are stuck with- bad or worse. Great choices we have.