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I Am Fascinated By Human Behavior

Why are so many Americans depressed and on antidepressants when we have the easiest lives of any other country and live in the easiest times in history? Some of us have a genetic predisposition to depression but it seems everybody and their neighbor is on an antidepressant or anti-anxiety. I doubt people in generations past were as unhappy as we are.
Cloud7593
46-50, F
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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
What makes you think that Americans have easier life than people from Scandinavian countries?

And yes. I am terrified by the number of people on here who are on some kind of psychiatric medication. My guess is that it's because they can and it's a good business there to sell it. I am almost sure that if I lived there I would have been on anti-anxiety pills since my teenage years.

This is what I would like to ask Americans - how and when did they start being medicated. Did they seek help by themselves or is there some kind of system in schools and workplace that hires professionals who recommends therapy to individuals who seem to be depressed or too stressed?
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Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
@CrazyMusicLover Plus people can t handle life's ordinary ups and downs anymore. Everybody wants instant gratification and fall apart when they don't get it.
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Miram · 31-35, F
Americans don't have the easiest lives.
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Miram · 31-35, F
@SW-User They really don't. I'd be terrified if I was this sick and lived there.

The idea that the american life is top-notch is media fabricated. They concentrate on the worst cases in other countries,and the best in their own. Just like France does..

I know people in the US that have no food and must skip meals to save for transportation.

And then there is the fact that most want short cuts..It's human nature. They want quick pleasures and they end up using that as a compensation for what really makes them content.

I read a behavioral experiment few years where mice lost interest in mating and socializing, scientists thought it was because there was an abundance of food. No challenges made them uninterested in living. So there is that too.
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Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
@Miram Yes maybe Americans don't have it as easy as I think. A better term would be we have it less difficult than any other country, or so I've been led to believe.
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Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
@Miram where do you live?
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wakanda4eva · 26-30, F
I think.people take for granted for what they have instead of seeing the bigger picture. A lot of places barely have access to running water, proper housing and have to scavage for food in dumpsters, getting sexually exploited or forced labour. Americans have it generally a lot better because most can live off welfare and food coupon if signing of a physical/mental disability.
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Tracos · 51-55, M
As horrible as it sounds... Partially because it's fashionable to be depressed....
And I'm not sure that they actually have the easiest lives, long working hours just to make ends meet, constant pressure to reach the (impossible) American dream, no social safety net... Deteriorating education system
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xp47rb · M
Much of the media hype has increased focus on it. Many meds are recently developed and have extensive sales campaigns. People haven't become more depressed but expectations of a pill making it all better have been created by advertisers
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SW-User
They don't want to take the blame or they don't want to change their lifestyle or habits, so a doctor gives them a pill. It's the attitude I don't want to fix myself, take a pill mentality
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Cloud7593 · 46-50, F
@kingkyri Life here is not as easy as it used to be, true.
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MarmeeMarch · M
dats bekuz de docktor done tells dem dat day needs de medicationez
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Finegent · 22-25, M
to the person who stole my antidepressants. I hope you're happy now.
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GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M
Because the simulation is winding down.
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