Does Liberalism Cause Mental Illness or Does Mental Illness Cause People to Beco

[Ptarmigan]

Does Liberalism Cause Mental Illness or Does Mental Illness Cause People to Become Liberal?
https://www.culturcidal.com/p/does-liberalism-cause-mental-illness

The fact that conservatives are happier than liberals has been so conclusively proven in research and so often discussed that it wouldn’t feel like breaking any new ground to even write about it. However, this outstanding piece by Musa al-Gharbi (Hat tip to Ann Coulter for the article) touches on the subject in the process of speculating about the enormous gap between conservatives and liberals in mental health. What we’re going to do is cover some particularly relevant portions of that article while adding some comments here. It’s really a great piece and it’s worth your time to read the whole thing:

Liberal girls tended to be significantly more depressed than boys, particularly after 2011. However, ideological differences swamped gender differences. Indeed, liberal boys were significantly more likely to report depression than conservatives of either gender. The authors also found that the more educated a teen’s family was, the more likely the young people were to be depressed, and the more dramatic their rise in depression was after 2012.

...Why is it that liberal teens are more consistently depressed than conservatives? Why might familial education correlate with heightened depression for liberal youth? Why was there a spike in depression (and a growing ideological divergence in depressive affect) after 2011, corresponding with the onset of the “Great Awokening”?

Leftism is a mental illness. They are addicted to perpetual victimhood.

[DefiantSix]

Leftism is the cause of mental illness, not the effect.

It's been a working theory of mine that the human brain is remarkably perceptive of truth vs. bullshit, far more so than most of humanity give it credit for. The consequence of this is that when the owner of that brain attempts to convince s/h/itself that something the brain has positively identified as bullshit is really the truth (fetuses aren't human, stealing from the wealthy will improve the economy, #SpongeBrainShitPants's regime was honest, intelligent and ethical, etc. etc.) the brain breaks itself in order to attempt to comply with the impossible and conflicting demand placed on it.

Hence, the rampant mental illness among leftists. 

[FlaGator]

Sounds like a chicken and egg thing.

[Old n Grumpy]

I can see where buying and towing the party line when you know it’s bullshit could make you depressed.
What I can’t see is how you could disown your friends and family over politics. You have to be a really sick puppy to do that.