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I am not sure about you guys but getting rid of religion has helped improve my mental health
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And that's assuming we take the chart at face value, which I'm not willing to do. I bet there's no actual data behind it.
I mean, it's fair to assume that, statistically, percentage of religious people is going down (cause better education), and percentage of depressed people is going up (cause big city life).
I don't agree it's fair to assume the latter. I want to see data.
I don't have the data on hand, but I've seen enough articles about it to safely assume that. There's plenty of causes, like, people living more isolated lives because of social media, economy going to shit, political instability all over the world, climate change effects. Pick your poison. Feel free to research it further.
Okay, here's the results of a quick search. It looks like the numbers of people who say they've ever had depression in their lifetime has very slightly increased, but the number of people saying they currently had depression was reasonably flat until the pandemic. The first part makes me wonder if we've just reduced the stigma of reporting it some.
By the way, I didn't have any preconceived notion, and I have no reason to want the number to be higher or lower. What I object to is a chart like this that doesn't appear to be based on data at all, just someone pulling numbers or lines out of their butts to support their existing beliefs.