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@ted
interesting data: while the rest of the world's <35yo suicide rate is trending down, the US is a rare country in which it is trending up. most attribute our depression rates to smart phones and social media — yet it can't possibly be that given every other country ALSO has smart phones and social media, right? wdyt?
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there’s something to be said about the US being the “most violent” nation in the world + the most frictionless access to items to aid in those types of efforts extreme solutions to problems are kinda like the American meme’s calling card at this point..
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@ebeezy.eth
In the US, people tend to measure self worth by individualistic values and financial success over communal ties and intrinsic goals
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@antimofm.eth
There's another country where that's happening I believe China and US are both, at their opposite end of the spectrum, reaching the limits to growth — not in the original meaning from the Club of Rome report, rather they're starting to experience diminishing returns with some of their policies
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my uneducated guesses: poor diet, little exercise, individualistic culture, lack of social net, huge success pressure, fast rising costs of real estate & college
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I think it's downstream of America having a primarily individualist philosophy/culture (eg lack of interdependence across generations or families in a community). That, combined with physical isolation due to suburbanization/sprawl, compounds loneliness
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I think social media related to teen suicide is not clear. I've done some research there and the trend is basically constant in the past 40 years. That is interesting that in the US the suicide rate for <35 years old is trending up. Most of suicides are done by middle aged men
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I think our diet plays a part. And maybe our pharmaceutical drug dependency/ lack of true healthcare? Both of those things are just so….sad here.
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The US has a very poor social net compared to any of these countries; it is on the extreme end of “I” vs east’s “We” culture, which is a catalyst for loneliness.
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@aaina
oxy, is the answer.
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@teleyinex.eth
Why the charts x axis has to be read from right to left? There's something strange in setting that chart like that. Time flows forward, so it should be from 2000 to 2020 not the other way around.
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Wild guess but the US is one of the most brutally competitive society there is. Also, most people's lifestyle is enabled by credit and debt. You trip, you lose big.
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I believe Americans have more pressure to be exceptional. More socially competitive , distortions from social media have more effect.
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Imo extremely bad food combined with bad hcare system that can indebt you and with car oriented infra: it's extremely hard to meet friends, too few third places, compared to say Italy, where food&social life are pretty nice, but I don't even know the s. Rate there)
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