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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
I guess I don’t see those things as particularly linked to lockdowns. You could probably replace lockdown with social media and say the same thing.
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It's also odd to attribute things to "lockdowns" that are really the results of a pandemic. It's not like there's a counterfactual reality where we could have not mitigated the spread of COVID and come out OK. When looking at the increased rates of depression and anxiety by country, it's pretty clear that the rate of spread is the primary factor. Increased rates of depression:
and in anxiety disorders:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...143-7/fulltext