The last decade has seen a particularly significant increase in depression in the United States, with prevalence rates increasing by 33% between 2013 and 2016, with the largest increase among youth and young adults
Back in the day we used to try to address depression with various talk therapies and group therapies. This wasn’t perfect and was also relatively expensive but at least it offered a sense of connection and tried to tie people back into society.
Now it’s all about pills, which are a huge money-spinner and are cheaper than talk therapy. When things make money you tend to see an increase in them.
That’s wonderful news I’m actually happy to say that was full honesty. Surely you learned in your talk therapy that you and your problems are unique Ergo so your solutions would be as well…
Higher body temperature is associated with depression, but severe depression will lower it to room temperature.
This is such an odd comment for people to upvote. The human body runs around 37c / 98.6f. A “room temperature” body is literally a corpse.
(Edit: I’ll leave the comment. But yes, I’m a moron.)
And you’ve now taken your first steps into the world of dark humor. Congratulations!
Oh. So, thermodynamically speaking, severe depression can be classified as an abnormally high heat dissipation coefficient. Solution should be easy… Insulation. dusts off hands Physics saves the day again! Somebody tell some techbros and Peter Thiel. I smell a medtech startup!
Thays one of them billion dollar ideas, warm blankets to help treat depression.
Well, it COULD be a billion dollar idea if you used rrreally cheap materials for the blankets - like, recycled asbestos - and also produced, say, medicine for lung cancer in one of your subsidiaries.
Science can talk?
I hate articles like this. Implying some sorta of causal relationship with any and all scientific papers that have a correlation between two properties. You can’t write that the paper “suggests” lowering body temps would improve depression when the paper only finds a correlation between the two.
People with expensive well worn running shoes have better cardiovascular health. So let’s give people well worn running shoes to improve their health.
I like this comparison because it makes me think of a company that is administering a medical trial type program to improve cardiovascular health — I’m imagining a “farm” type place, where undergrads are on treadmills, taking new, expensive running shoes and running in them until they’re “well-worn”. It’s very silly, and I thank you for this mental image.
This better not make people dismiss my depression because I run cold…
