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Why do you think people are so mentally ill? (www.nimh.nih.gov)

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Prevalence of Any Mental Illness (AMI)

Figure 1 shows the past year prevalence of AMI among U.S. adults.
    In 2022, there were an estimated 59.3 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States with AMI. This number represented 23.1% of all U.S. adults.
    The observed prevalence of AMI was higher among females (26.4%) than males (19.7%).
    Young adults aged 18-25 years had the highest prevalence of AMI (36.2%) compared to adults aged 26-49 years (29.4%) and aged 50 and older (13.9%).
    The prevalence of AMI was highest among the adults reporting two or more races (35.2%), followed by White adults (24.6%). The prevalence of AMI was lowest among Asian adults (16.8%).

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[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, my point was that the world has mostly always been controlled by the rich disgusting criminals and people who are just now realizing this need to be aware of that. It's comparable in my opinion to people posting on youtube videos something like "this Elvis fellow was criminally underrated." Just because something is new to you doesn't mean it's new to everyone.

Back on topic, I firmly believe that social media is causing a lot of these mental health issues. People seem to believe that they are the main character for one, and they have an unhealthy obsession with trying to keep up with other people, while ignoring the fact that what people put online is highly edited and parsed. That's just my theory as an observer from outside. I have no social media accounts other than this one, and if this all was powered off tomorrow I wouldn't care.

[–] duhlieluh@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

i agree, the worst being shorts/tiktoks/reels. it absolutely kills your attention span and leads you to crave instant hits of dopamine. i see people watching reels etc. while the tv is playing a show that they are "watching" it drives me insane.

most social media is also meant to make you more lonely and depressed because you are more likely to use them when you are.

people compare themselves to the idealistic characters they see on social media and see that it is something they will never live up to, not realising that they arent supposed to.

there are obviously many complicated reasons and theories like inequality, idealism, manipulation, and the advancements that we have made in mental health that contribute to the issue. ive attempted to condense the topics into a word or sentence but as most of us know they are much deeper and more ambiguous than that.