How Depressed is Your State?

[Dan G]

The study ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on rates of depression and suicide. Researchers found that states with easier access to mental health resources had lower suicide rates.

The states found to have the highest suicide rates had fewer resources for mental health care, and barriers such as cost made it harder for people in those states to access what resources were available.

Happier states such as South Dakota had more psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers per capita. In the least depressed states, more people had health insurance and received mental health care treatment.

Researchers also found that the more highly educated a state’s population is, the lower its rate of depression.

Here they are, ranked from happiest to saddest.

1. South Dakota
2. Hawaii
3. New Jersey
4. Iowa
5. Maryland
6. Minnesota
7. Louisiana
8. Illinois
9. North Dakota
10. Texas
11. Georgia
12. Vermont
13. Nebraska
14. Florida
15. California
16. Massachusetts
17. Pennsylvania
18. Virginia
19. New York
20. New Hampshire
21. Alaska
22. Michigan
23. District of Columbia
24. Delaware
25. Arizona
26. Alabama
27. North Carolina
28. South Carolina
29. Kansas
30. Wisconsin
31. Tennessee
32. Montana
33. Mississippi
34. Colorado
35. Washington
36. New Mexico
37. Oregon
38. Connecticut
39. Indiana
40. Arkansas
41. Maine
42. Wyoming
43. Ohio
44. Missouri
45. Idaho
46. Oklahoma
47. Nevada
48. Rhode Island
49. Kentucky
50. West Virginia
51. Utah

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22087867/

[Death Metal Moe]

Wow, I am extremely surprised that New Jersey is rated such a happy state with the bullshit we all put up with here.

Highest auto insurance, highest rate of people per square mile, fairly high property tax and the fucking smell of northeastern NJ.

[A.J.]

Why would anyone be happy in South Dakota? Especially the alcoholic Native Americans living on their squalid reservations.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

edit Im dumb, thats why im so depressed

:king:

[hunnerbun]

Why would anyone be happy in South Dakota? Especially the alcoholic Native Americans living on their squalid reservations.

Wow, with that description SD sounds exactly like Manitoba! :dry:

[SatCam]

49. Kentucky
50. West Virginia
51. Utah

hayseeds and mormans :smoke:

[Death Metal Moe]

Bad radio show callers and mormans :smoke:

Fixed

[cupcakelove]

I would be depressed too if I couldn't get real beer.

[topless_mike]

Why would anyone be happy in South Dakota? Especially the alcoholic Native Americans living on their squalid reservations.

lots of open space.
thats why


that and lots of bison to give love to.

[SouthSideJohnny]

Happy ASS 14 checkin in.

[Knowledged_one]

How about i went from State #5 to State #11 to State #39 to State #43

God i just want to eat a bullet

[Leticia]

How about i went from State #5 to State #11 to State #39 to State #43

God i just want to eat a bullet

:lol:

[RAAMONE]

How about i went from State #5 to State #11 to State #39 to State #43

God i just want to eat a bullet

.com

[Knowledged_one]

oh yeah i forgot that i went to school at State #50

[DiabloSammich]

Delaware!!! Perfectly average as always.

[sailor]

poor wv. makes me sad. :(

[midwestjeff]

hayseeds and mormans :smoke:

o

[PapaBear]

poor wv. makes me sad. :(
Back in the early 90's I worked at a photo lab that developed crime scene pics for the Washington County Maryland Sheriff's Dept. That part of MD is just across the border from WV, and has pretty much the same people. I was developing suicide photos at least twice a week. Really creepy stuff!

[thepaulo]

South Dakota here I come......

not really....

but I will be going from a 14 to an 8

[PapaBear]

South Dakota here I come......

not really....

but I will be going from a 14 to an 8
You're moving to Illanois?

[thepaulo]

kinda sorta....but I might spend some time in 19.....

[cougarjake13]

coming in at #14


sweet

[djjd]

i live across the border from #22

seems about right for michigan, a little more happy than sad

[ralphbxny]

I dont visit a state that is below 36....I couldnt take anything else!!

[TeeBone]

I thought RI would of had #51.

[Chimee]

How is Maine #41? Must be all the moosen.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

Maybe Jersey types are happy because they shit their emotional baggage onto their fellow man on a daily basis. That way they don't get weighed down by all their emo-turds like they do in other states where acting like a jackass is actually abhorred and frowned upon.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

Another observation: How many school shootings take place in Middle America as opposed to what takes place in the East or West Coast?