Carol Vidal

So there were differences by race and there was an increase in gender and also financial stress.

So we, you know, one of the questions asked about how much financial stress you're experiencing and the people that were experiencing more financial stress, they also had higher increases in depression rate.

And then women and intersex people also had higher increases, more than males.

And then there were increases in minorities that were more significant than among whites.

So these are actually, especially the minorities, the financial stress and the women groups, they tend to also experience more depression in general.

So it's not surprising, but there was a steeper increase in those groups.

I think that could be a plausible explanation that people are just talking more about it for many different reasons.

There's definitely a change in how people talk about depression, even in my lifetime, I've seen it.

So I think that could be it.

People are more willing to endure symptoms.

They're more used to taking tests about depression from the time they're in school.

They get these questionnaires about mental health and then you hear about it on TikTok.

So I feel like it, you know,

I feel like there's probably many reasons, but there has definitely been a change.

And I doubt that's the only reason.

Yes.

But yeah, that could be one explanation here.

Well, I think one of the things that I thought about when I looked at the data is that financial stress beats, which I know for a president in the university is kind of a difficult thing to resolve.

I think the tuition rates and the financial stress that college students are exposed to is probably higher.

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