Posted on 11/17/2011 9:13:31 AM PST by bjorn14
States of mind
On its own, where you live isn't enough to make you depressed. Personal circumstances and genes also play an important role in mental health, so an area that feels like a downer to one person may be home sweet home to another.
That said, mental distress is unusually and persistently common in some states, whether due to economic troubles, lack of access to health care, or other factors.
Using data from federal health agencies, Health.com has identified the 10 states with the highest rates of depression, psychological distress, and other indicators of poor mental health. Here they are, in alphabetical order [for those of you too lazy to click through the slides]:
(Excerpt) Read more at health.com ...
I clicked through to see what methodology was used to determine this. Doesn’t seem to be one . . .
“Interesting that so many of these are landlocked states.”
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Well, here in the utter Hell of a “landlocked” state, all I know is that when I think of any number of coastal Blue states such as Massachusetts or California, my normal sunny outlook turns dark.
More likely, like so much of the stuff that makes it way into print, the entire foundational premise of this “study” is total bullshit.
LLS
Tornado's,earthquakes,torrential rains, and all in the same day. Cougars, bobcats that come into the neighborhoods and look in your patio doors, bad. Rattlesnakes, tarantulas, copperheads on the golf courses, not a nice round when that happens. Guess that about covers our depressing life style.
You missed out on "The 20 Best Moments in Women's Health", which, it turns out includes Katie Couric's colonoscopy.
Rumor has it the doctor announced that he could see Russia from there.
And the there was the "8 Reasons Sex Is Better After 50", which somehow neglected the most important reason of all:
Your vision is shot. ;-)
Maybe you should tell the people on the Mississippi Gulf Coast that Katrina didn't hit some other state.
I think Nevada is depressed because dingy hairy is their senator.
Huh?
Why would I need to do that?
Mostly union states. I’d be depressed if I didn’t live in a right to work state.
Here in New England, we've got legions of unemployed fisherman, loggers, construction workers as well as a thousand colleges and universities filled with a million kids racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt with only the slightest hope of ever finding a job. Besides, they're still mostly teenagers and that's the Golden Age of Angst, right there.
Mississippi is not land locked....
LOL!!!
Right.
And I wasn’t the one who advanced the “landlocked” pattern theory. In fact, I satirized it.
“Somebody needs to call Bullsh*t on this article.”
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I already did, but am happy to repeat the performance.
See Post #42. That exact same, pungent descriptor.
I mean, think of how you would feel if you were there right now!
Vegas? People in the other 49 have no idea that Nevada isn’t just Vegas. Far from it.
But we in the northern Nevada of conservative towns, friendly people, political non-correctness, big skies, spectacular mountains and lakes, picturesque ghost towns and deserts and THE LARGEST GOLD MINES IN THE FREAKING WORLD WITH JOBS GALORE are very happy to fly under the radar of the rest of the nation.
10 out of 57 ain’t bad!
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