Everyone is Depressed

Do you want to know what happens in America when people don't believe in a Creator who created them for a purpose?  When people reject a biblical worldview and come to believe that they evolved from pond scum and will die and become pond scum again?

Yep!  They get depressed!!

Major depression on the rise among everyone, new data shows

Major depression is on the rise among Americans from all age groups, but is rising fastest among teens and young adults, new health insurance data shows.

Depression rates also vary a lot state by state, with Rhode Island having the highest rate of depression at 6.4 percent. Hawaii has the lowest rate — 2.1 percent.

The findings cover people with commercial health insurance — Blue Cross and Blue Shield — so they’re not fully representative. But most people in the U.S. are covered by a commercial health plan.

The findings are almost certainly an underestimate, as well. The Blue Cross Blue Shield data comes from 41 million health records and counts people who got a diagnosis of major depression. Many people who report symptoms of depression say they have not been diagnosed or sought treatment for it.

What’s behind the increase?

“Many people are worried about how busy they are,” said Dr. Laurel Williams, chief of psychiatry at Texas Children’s Hospital.

“There’s a lack of community. There’s the amount of time that we spend in front of screens and not in front of other people. If you don’t have a community to reach out to, then your hopelessness doesn’t have any place to go.”

"Diagnoses of major depression have risen dramatically by 33 percent since 2013," the report reads.

According to the report, 2.6 percent of youths aged 12 to17 were diagnosed with major depression in 2016, a 63 percent increase from 1.6 percent in 2013.

Among young adults aged 18 to 34, 4.4 percent had major depression in 2016, compared to 3 percent in 2013. That’s a 47 percent increase.

The highest percentage of major depression diagnoses were among people aged 35 to 49. The survey found 5.8 percent of 35-to 49-year-olds had major depression in 2016, compared to 4.6 percent three years before.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/major-depression-rise-among-everyone-new-data-shows-n873146

Those are some staggering figures!

In my opinion, the church in America is largely to blame.  We have failed to be salt and light.  We have the GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ and yet we have failed to deliver it to a lost and dying world. We have failed to become mature disciples of Christ, we have failed to study the Word of God and so most of the folks sitting in churches across this country have never matured.

"But the cares of this world and the desire for riches mean that MOST will never mature."

Do you think Jesus was pointing a finger at America?

Let's be busy doing kingdom work people!  Time is short and our nation is collapsing in a sea of depression.