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.

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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