[lbo-talk] anxiety across the border

[B.]

That really doesn't surprise me. I've long known
Americans have levels of anxiety and depression that
are just off the charts relative to most of the world,
especially & including the 3rd world.

I have repeated maybe 4 or 5 times now on this list
the shocking statistic from the Harvard School of
Public Health that *if current trends continue* by
2020 "unipolar major depression" will be the 2nd
leading cause of disability in adult Americans, behind
heart disease, and just before accidents that have
physical repercussions. I think both the NIH and/or
NIMH have adopted this stat as fact and mention it
often.

So it actually sounds likes these immigrants are doing
what nativists say immigrants don't want to do -- that
is, they are assimilating into the American culture.

-B.

WD wrote:

"The World Mental Health Survey, conducted in 2002,
found that only 6.6 percent of Mexicans had ever
experienced a major episode of anxiety of depression.
Meanwhile, to their north, 28.8 percent of the
American population has been afflicted with anxiety,
the highest level in the world. Mexicans who move to
the United States adapt, becoming more anxious."