[overton]

Exactly. This article comes with the typical psychiatrist bias that depression is indication of some personal deficit (cognitive distortions or faulty brain chemistry) when in my personal view, given the state of the world there are many good reasons to be depressed.

[jkhdigital]

And there weren’t plenty of reasons in the past? Do you read history at all?

[overton]

sure I do. as another comment pointed out, the trend roughly tracks the decoupling of wages from productivity in North America. seems as good of a reason for disillusionment as one could find.

[wolverine876]

> the trend roughly tracks the decoupling of wages from productivity in North America. seems as good of a reason for disillusionment as one could find.

How about famine, war, epidemics wiping out a third of the population, totalitarian oppression, etc.?