A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado

Re:A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado by Retric on Saturday November 12, 2016 @07:11PM (#12940995)

You are trying to redefine terms here. Depression is not the same as the underlying cause of Depression. You can go from Depressed to not Depressed without becoming normal or happy.

Further, it's not clear that the actual incidence is on the rise or if this is reversion to the mean etc. We have shifted what people call Depression and how willing people are to seek treatment. The age adjusted suicide rate was actually higher from 1950 - 1980 than it is today.

In 1950 the rates of suicide for 75–84 years old people was 31.1 in 2010 it was 15.7. If you look at the actual rate by age it's all over the map. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0779940.html

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Re:A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado by zepto on Sunday November 13, 2016 @01:24AM (#12942142)

It's actually unclear what your argument is here. Remember that these comments are in response to an article about rising incidence of depression treated with multiple medications.

It sounds like for some reason you are now just trying to say that depression isn't really on the increase in certain places.

Why would you say that?

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