POLL: Politics, Suicide & Depression in America

[Mac1958]

Item One
Our suicide rates have increased to the point at which the CDC says they are actually affecting our life expectancy. Our usage of antidepressants continues to increase. Looking at the facts, it's not difficult to argue that we, as a society, are become more and more unhappy.

Item Two
More and more, Americans are walking around in a state of hypersensitivity, just waiting to be outraged or offended by something. When someone from the "other" tribe does or says something that we can attack, we jump right in with the group hysterics.

Theory
We're making ourselves more and more miserable by adhering ourselves to political ideologies, by refusing to even understand the opinions of those who dare to disagree with us, and by jumping on the tiniest opportunities as a reasonable excuse to attack the "other".

Please vote and comment. Thanks.

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U.S. Antidepressant Use Jumps 65 Percent in 15 Years
Suicides are at the highest rate in decades, CDC report shows
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[Tehon]

Item One
Our suicide rates have increased to the point at which the CDC says they are actually affecting our life expectancy. Our usage of antidepressants continues to increase. Looking at the facts, it's not difficult to argue that we, as a society, are become more and more unhappy.

Item Two
More and more, Americans are walking around in a state of hypersensitivity, just waiting to be outraged or offended by something. When someone from the "other" tribe does or says something that we can attack, we jump right in with the group hysterics.

Theory
We're making ourselves more and more miserable by adhering ourselves to political ideologies, by refusing to even understand the opinions of those who dare to disagree with us, and by jumping on the tiniest opportunities as a reasonable excuse to attack the "other".

Please vote and comment. Thanks.

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U.S. Antidepressant Use Jumps 65 Percent in 15 Years
Suicides are at the highest rate in decades, CDC report shows
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No. Our political dysfunction and the increasing suicide rate are manifestations of a deeper problem.

 

[Mac1958]

No. Our political dysfunction and the increasing suicide rate are manifestations of a deeper problem.

I would agree with that.

I think this is an indication of an overall culture in decay.
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[SmokeALib]

U.S. public schools doctrine:
Comply with our leftist teachings or you will be drugged.

 

[Maxdeath]

Political dysfunction, suicide, depression and every other problem is due to simple overcrowding. Put too many mice into an area and they have problems.

People are social animals but they interact best in small localized numbers.

 

[Mac1958]

It could also be argued that it's the reverse - that our political behaviors are driven by increasing unhappiness.

 

[Unkotare]

U.S. public schools doctrine:
Comply with our leftist teachings or you will be drugged.

???????

 

[Mac1958]

As much as mac is always a "sky is falling" drama queen because he's so fickle and anxious when people have different political views......

I was wondering when the first ironic post would pop up.
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[Mac1958]

As much as mac is always a "sky is falling" drama queen because he's so fickle and anxious when people have different political views......

I was wondering when the first ironic post would pop up.

You need a therapist. You cultivate, salivate and stew in bad news.

Okay, thanks.
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[SmokeALib]

U.S. public schools doctrine:
Comply with our leftist teachings or you will be drugged.

???????

U.S. public schools doctrine:
Comply with our leftist teachings or you will be drugged.

???????

40 years of Ritalin coming to fruition.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

We're making ourselves more and more miserable by adhering ourselves to political ideologies, by refusing to even understand the opinions of those who dare to disagree with us, and by jumping on the tiniest opportunities as a reasonable excuse to attack the "other".

Sorry, but as I've said before, the Democrats have slipped way too far off the American cracker. I understand their opinions perfectly, find them in opposition to the overall liberty and personal freedom guaranteed by the Constitution, and consider them worthy of being continually attacked for the nonsense they are..

 

[Mac1958]

Sorry, but as I've said before, the Democrats have slipped way too far off the American cracker. I understand their opinions perfectly, find them in opposition to the overall liberty and personal freedom guaranteed by the Constitution, and consider them worthy of being continually attacked for the nonsense they are..

So you'd say it's an issue with the Left and not the Right?
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[DOTR]

No. Our political dysfunction and the increasing suicide rate are manifestations of a deeper problem.

I would agree with that.

I think this is an indication of an overall culture in decay.
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Culture is all. It isn’t decaying. It is being destroyed intentionally.
The suicide rate is particularly spiking among “middle aged white women”. These are the first cohort to have been so completely destroyed by feminist propaganda and the liquidation of institutions created to protect them.

 

[DOTR]

“Natalie said she began “thinking of suicide as an option” after her mother died suddenly and the stress of caring for her father, who had Alzheimer’s, while raising two teenagers on her own and working full-time became “oppressive. Each day it just seemed more impossible to keep doing what I was doing....”

Yeah...”you’ve come a long way baby”

 

[SmokeALib]

Removing God from our society seems to coincide with this topic.
It may not take away the pain.
It takes away the hope.