Major depression on the rise among everyone, new data shows

Color me unsurprised: life sucks for most Americans. The country is divided against itself. Our economy favors a few professions the members of which guard fiercely against entry by outsiders. Pollution, climate change, rising costs of living & healthcare, poor regulatory practices: all of these and other factors combine to ravish the average American's wallet and soul.

Rise in incidence or rise in diagnosis?<p>ex: highest incidence of breast cancer is apparently in Marin County. Incidence or diagnosis?

Some of us who lived in the 1970s have been subjected to unrelenting psyops for 40+ years, mostly in the service of selling things, including political products.<p>It surprises me every day that we aren&#x27;t in full-throated, Molotov-lobbing anarchy or mass suicide.<p>And that was before 2016.

Meanwhile, Vitamin D levels keep dropping:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newhope.com&#x2F;research-and-insights&#x2F;vitamin-d-levels-dropping-dramatically-study-finds" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newhope.com&#x2F;research-and-insights&#x2F;vitamin-d-level...</a>

If I may suggest one more cause for this, to the list of all the other causes suggested by everyone:<p>I think this rise in collective depression may also be due to the fact that more and more people live their entire life inside cities, from birth to death, with little or no contact with “nature” at all.<p>All we ever get to interact with are artificial institutions, created by other humans just as fallible as us..<p>Like building ever smaller boxes inside existing boxes, few people ever get the chance to break out and discover their true potential, let alone achieving that potential.

I think it’s about a sense of freedom. Everything we do is monitored now. Look at a country like Denmark, where everyone is supposed to be happy. The level of surveillance for the sake of bettering society is at DDR level spy operations (just with letter steaming rooms replaced by Mongo databases etc and a consensus that if you don’t do anything wrong you don’t have anything to fear).

The fact no one has mentioned diet baffles me, food, sugar and the imbalance of gut bacteria as proscribed by Hindu Sages in the field of Ayurveda explains everything, Pitta Dosha as its called, the messing up the balance of our system due to basically rubbish food and how it impacts our mood. Google the gut brain axis.