Liberals = Lower Levels of reported happiness and higher rates of Mental Health Struggles. Why?

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

This is how they work.

When studies start coming out that do not fit the liberal narrative, they immediately commission studies whose goal is to find the opposite.

I will note that every study that purports to show higher suicides among transgenders denied "gender affirming care" are based on surveys. Actual tracking of suicide following GAC show more suicides among those getting this "treatment."

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What's that phrase? Something about he who has the money owns the science?

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[Seymour Flops]

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What's that phrase? Something about he who has the money owns the science?

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Of course.

That is why we are constantly told to "trust the science" while government funded studies make shrimp run on treadmills and other nonsense.

 

[SeaMajor7]

A freaking CENTURY of Marxist Leninist infiltration into our edu,media, and governance have scrambled the eggs of the weak minded, and they are now PSYCHOPATHS.
The demented LEFT have been force fed lies and hatred against the founding of our country that has these IDIOTS in the deep depths of self-loathing, which leads to hating true patriotic Americans as much as they hate themselves.
They're mostly fugly too, so there's that.

 

[SweetSue92]

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Here are the links:

Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair.

magazine.columbia.edu

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/new-study-shows-bipartisan-struggles-with-depression-reveals-gaps-in-mental-health-care-access

Now, I don't consider myself liberal or conservative. I'm a libertarian when I'm in a wishful thinking type mood, and a Trump-supporting American firster when I face the real world. But I have gone through phases of being liberal and being conservative. I was once exactly the type pessimist that typifies the liberals I know.

I did take notice of Republicans not getting mental health needs met. This is likely due to the fact that mental health treatement costs money and leaves a record which might be discovered by an employer. This may cause Reps to hesitate or decide not to seek treatment and then say on an anonymous poll that they have unmet needs.

Liberals are not likely to be concerned about those factors, being less interested in employment and most often having some sort of government provided healthcare that fully pays for their shrinks and meds.

Other than that, I think the reason for the disparity in mental illness frequency is pretty obvious.

Mindset.

Generally speaking, Republicans, AKA "conservatives", look to conserve the good. So we approach life from a "what is good here?" Mindset.

Liberals are grievance monitors and vendors. "What is broken"? And so the mindset is constantly looking for the broken.

Mindset and what you consume are really important to mental health. In short, we need to tend to our souls as well as our minds and bodies.

 

[citygator]

This is how they work.

When studies start coming out that do not fit the liberal narrative, liberal academia immediately commissions studies whose goal is to find the opposite.

I will note that every study that purports to show higher suicides among transgenders denied "gender affirming care" are based on surveys. Actual tracking of suicide following GAC show more suicides among those getting this "treatment."

SeeLess and Flops did not link a study. He linked a survey of opinions. That isnt a study. Feel free to link a study. You havent yet SeeLess

 

[Papageorgio]

Please forgive him. . . I think he's pregnant.

Hormones and all.

To quote cousin Eddie, “I haven't seen a beatin' like that since somebody stuck a banana in my pants and turned a monkey loose.”

 

[Seymour Flops]

SeeLess and Flops did not link a study. He linked a survey of opinions. That isnt a study. Feel free to link a study. You havent yet SeeLess

I linked a study that you did not like.

I guess this will be my first teachable moment of the day:

All depression is self reported. Did you think that there was some kind of blood test for it?

 

[citygator]

I linked a study that you did not like.

I guess this will be my first teachable moment of the day:

All depression is self reported. Did you think that there was some kind of blood test for it?

Depression is NOT self reported. It is diagnosed. I guess the first teachable moment of the day for yourself should be to do some research. "Depression is self reported". Hilarious. You remind me of this bit:

 

[berg80]

I did take notice of Republicans not getting mental health needs met.

"I think the reason for the disparity in mental illness frequency is pretty obvious."

Me too.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Depression is NOT self reported. It is diagnosed. I guess the first teachable moment of the day for yourself should be to do some research. "Depression is self reported". Hilarious. You remind me of this bit:

Oh! Well keep teaching then, please!

HOW is depression diagnosed, if not based on what the patient tells the doctor?

 

[Seymour Flops]

"I think the reason for the disparity in mental illness frequency is pretty obvious."

Me too.

It is actually a chicken or egg situation.

Does liberalism lead to mental illness or does mental illness lead to liberalism?

 

[midcan5]

As a so called liberal - I guess - I disagree with these sort of assumptions as they are often biased towards the result. Who is the liberal, who the conservative? In life I am the conservative as I served the nation, married longer than most of you have existed, raised two boys who are doing quite well with grandchildren in college and HS. Labels are just labels, they have no real significance - in life it is your values and accomplishments that matter.

Is Trump, a convicted felon, a conservative in your world view? Are felons conservatives? Words and labels come to mean nothing if looked at closely. But back on topic, people with mental illnesses are to be helped and treated if necessary. Grow up and think not label.....

 

[berg80]

AI Overview

Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and niece of Donald Trump, has extensively analyzed her uncle’s mental and emotional state, arguing in her 2020 book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, and in subsequent interviews that he suffers from severe, undiagnosed psychiatric disorders. [1, 2]
Her "diagnosis" is based on her personal, first-hand experience of her uncle, rather than a clinical, in-person examination, which she says was largely formed by his upbringing and his father's cruelty.

Dotard has wealth and fame but seems agitated and angry all the time, unless he's shitting on someone. That's when he's the happiest.

 

[DonGlock26]

Why?

Because the Left is bat shit crazy.

 

[initforme]

True happiness comes from within. Following one's own chosen path is the route to happiness, not the route society tells one to take. Therefore, she'd the political ideals of the left and right and do things ones own wsy.

 

[citygator]

Oh! Well keep teaching then, please!

HOW is depression diagnosed, if not based on what the patient tells the doctor?

Self reporting in a survey isnt a diagnosis. Your OP was a survey. A medical study of people actually diagnosed with depression found no difference in party affiliations. No matter how you try to spin it, that the truth. Maybe you are depressed about it? I self report you as suffering from Depression.

 

[berg80]

It is actually a chicken or egg situation.

Does liberalism lead to mental illness or does mental illness lead to liberalism?

You already gave the answer to your question in the OP. You're just too stupid to realize it.

 

[Independent thinker]

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Here are the links:

Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair.

magazine.columbia.edu

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/new-study-shows-bipartisan-struggles-with-depression-reveals-gaps-in-mental-health-care-access

Now, I don't consider myself liberal or conservative. I'm a libertarian when I'm in a wishful thinking type mood, and a Trump-supporting American firster when I face the real world. But I have gone through phases of being liberal and being conservative. I was once exactly the type pessimist that typifies the liberals I know.

I did take notice of Republicans not getting mental health needs met. This is likely due to the fact that mental health treatement costs money and leaves a record which might be discovered by an employer. This may cause Reps to hesitate or decide not to seek treatment and then say on an anonymous poll that they have unmet needs.

Liberals are not likely to be concerned about those factors, being less interested in employment and most often having some sort of government provided healthcare that fully pays for their shrinks and meds.

Other than that, I think the reason for the disparity in mental illness frequency is pretty obvious.

I think it's just DNA, which would explain why those on the left just can't change to wanting to be happy and why they make all the wrong decisions. They want to be miserable and will do anything and everything to make sure they are miserable. But, they shouldn't try making everyone miserable. That's not fair to the other side who don't have damaged DNA.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

If people are happy and fulfilled, they want that to continue. The "conserve" in conservatism refers to the continuation of social order that allows for such.

Conversely, if a person is unhappy and unfulfilled, they are drawn to the rhetoric that tells them they are a victim of the system, which is broken and needs fixing.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

The term "Liberal" IMHO should not be used anymore because the last true Liberal disappeared in the late 80s

Yep. Liberalism is predicated upon the notion that people are individuals and should be regarded according to their merit rather than happenstance of birth. Today's leftists divide people into tribes and ascribe various degrees of victimhood based upon tribal identity. Having done so, they proceed to implement a sort of handicapping system where those identified as victim are then defended for behavior that would not be defended otherwise.

Just look at the way leftists defend Islam, for instance. It is the least liberal ideology on God's green earth, yet these dunderheads have been convinced that they must defend it as they ascribe it to some sort of minority victim class.