The Progressive Mental Health Crisis

In this episode, we delve into the rising mental health crisis among progressive women, examining data and discussing potential causes, including the impact of urban monocultures and the evolution of harmful online communities. We compare mental health and life satisfaction rates between liberal and conservative women, analyze the role of therapists, and explore the influence of platforms like Tumblr. The discussion also touches on the diverging experiences of men and women across political ideologies and the broader societal implications of these trends.

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Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. Today we will be touching on the issue of exploding mental health rate. Problems within progressive women as well as exploding lack of life satisfaction. They actually have life satisfaction ratings three times lower than conservative women.

And we're gonna be going into co. Funding data that could explain this. This is a topic that we have touched on in the past, but it is a topic with such a voluminous amount of information around it that it is worth going into deeply with new data, with old data and, and trying to understand it because it's, it's, it's really fascinating to me because what we're seeing exploding mental health issues within progressive women is we are seeing.

The urban monocultures effects on somebody's mental health in psychology. [00:01:00] And through that we can, because that's, that largely aligns with, with progressivism, right? The dominant culture of our, of our society. And we can understand through that through understanding what might be causing this is how the urban monitoring could be hurting people.

And we're also going to go into a brief exploration that I found really interesting in, in a piece that I found. On how the most negative psychologically harmful culture evolved on, tumblr,

Simone Collins: this sounds like just, you know, hitting all my favorite keywords. I am very excited about this and let's, let's do it.

Malcolm Collins: All right. So. First, I'm gonna be going over a piece called Why So Blue Liberal women are less happy or lonely, but why?

Simone Collins: Oh, they went there.

Malcolm Collins: Good. Good points on the title. Yeah. Yeah. The loneliness thing is actually really shocking as well. Young liberal women are especially pro nowadays to reporting poor mental health.

[00:02:00] This was a discovery that Zach Goldberg made almost five years ago, pouring over the Pew data in the spring of 2020. Now, here I'm putting a chart on screen and it's looking at has the doctor or other healthcare provider. Ever told you you have a mental health condition and this is the amount who said yes.

Simone Collins: I just, I love this idea though of like the healthcare provider being, say, your dentist, just like, yeah,

Malcolm Collins: she is problems. And this chart is famous. This one we've gone over before that showed that white liberal women. 18 to 29, 56 0.3% of them had been diagnosed with a mental health condition. Conservative women

Simone Collins: see is, I think is not the problem that they're seeing therapists in the first place.

I think it's really hard for anyone to see a therapist and not be diagnosed with something, even if they're completely normal. Well,

Malcolm Collins: the therapists are part of the cult of the urban monoculture. Yeah. It's like going to your confessions. Like they see it as important. As I've mentioned, I've seen women who will screen [00:03:00] dating guys.

Who aren't seeing a therapist, and that's like they have been incepted with the dependency of the urban monoculture to believe that I cannot be mentally healthy and no one can be mentally healthy without seeing a therapist.

Simone Collins: Yes. And yet when you see the therapist, they point out how mentally. Yeah.

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Malcolm Collins: Art actually had an interesting talk about this, where he's like, oh yes, he went to be a progressive therapist and then a conservative therapist, and the progressive therapist just kept. Having him ruminate on his problems. Yeah. And the conservative therapist was like, okay, here's a chart. Here's what you need to do.

Here's the timeline for getting rid of it. And what's, which is nice, I mean,

Simone Collins: and he didn't even imply that the, I. The conservative therapist was certain, he just gave him potential things he could try that were evidence-based. And it's so, but it's also so indicative of the feminine versus masculine response to someone preventing a problem, presenting a problem.

You know that the correct feminine response is, oh, I'm so sorry. Tell you more. This must be so hard for you. And then the masculine response responses, okay, let's make a [00:04:00] solution. And that that scene is so toxic by many

Malcolm Collins: people. Oh, absolutely. But, but to this graph right here yeah. One thing that's really interesting in it is, yes, okay, over half of liberal white women have a mental health condition, have been diagnosed as one, but also keep in mind here.

That the moderates had about the same rate of being diagnosed as the conservatives. So the white moderate women, 28.4% white conservative women, 27.3%. Mm-hmm. And this goes down a lot in older age ranges. When you're looking at like the 65 plus, it's only 5.9%. For those women. Another really interesting thing is that if you look at, older ages. The difference between males and females being diagnosed with mental health issues decreases. Mm-hmm. And it also decreases when you're looking at moderates with moderates, you see men and women being diagnosed at around the same rates. But in both conservatives and progressives, you see women being diagnosed much more.

And, and what's really [00:05:00] interesting is in progressives you see about the same rates of diagnoses at 30 and up, but it's 18 to 29 where you see this the big difference, huh? And I think this has to do with where mental health professionals have sort of penetrated and captured aspects of these markets.

Um hmm. Like if you are a progressive guy, what I actually think is happening here no, this kid back can't be what's happening? 'cause the rate's not going up. Yeah. I just think it's the, we'll, we'll get into how Tumblr caused all this, but any more thoughts on this before I go further? I.

Simone Collins: I wanna go further.

I just wanna keep going. Okay.

Malcolm Collins: Further research in 2022 found that depression had surged among liberal high school girls in the last decade and a half, and much more so for them than other high schoolers, especially conservatives. And so here we're gonna look at a another article titled. Why the mental health of liberal goals sink first and fastest.

And the first chart I'm gonna pull up here is Pew 2020. And it's looking at, has a doctor or healthcare provider ever told you that you have a mental [00:06:00] health condition? And it's just what we were looking at before, but it's done as a graph, which I think is a bit easier to see. Graphs are so much easier.

Next chart. Is depression scores by gender and politics. And what you can see here is female liberals are absolutely at the highest here, and their depression scores started to shoot up. They were always higher, but they were about in line with male liberals. Mm-hmm. They started to shoot up at around 2011.

Was that when they. Was that when the girl, whatever the believe, believe her movement started.

Simone Collins: Me too. No. Yeah, me

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