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Suicide rates increased 30% from 2000 to 2016 [1]

Depression among teenagers increased 59% from 2007 to 2017 [2]

Income inequality in the US is at its highest point in 50 years. [3]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db309.htm

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/12/a-growing-n...

[3] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/07/6-facts-abo...

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Might as well add inflation to the list

High inflation time periods don't quite overlap with that data set though.

I'd do up to the 2020, but it's surprisingly tough to find recent data drawn over time. Suicide rates have dropped a little with COVID but the pandemic/lockdown caused all kinds of weird correlations.

Some, not all, of that depression is just the hyper-medicalization of normal human emotions

Well, can't say the same about suicides.

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