{"id":2035,"date":"2011-07-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/does-your-money-make-you-sad.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T08:59:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:59:32","slug":"does-your-money-make-you-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Money Make You Sad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerblog.blogspot.com\/\" layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerblog.blogspot.com\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerblog.blogspot.com\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.christart.com\/IMAGES-art9ab\/clipart\/654\/prov-030-06.gif?resize=320%2C260\" width=\"320\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">It seems that, not only is it true that &#8220;<i>Money Can&#8217;t Buy Happiness<\/i>&#8220;, but it&#8217;s also associated with Sadness and Depression.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A recent study just now showed that <i><b>depression rates are higher in richer countries than in low- or middle-income nations<\/b><\/i>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>What Did This Study Do, Actually?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">They took detailed interviews with more than 89,000 people in 18 nations. 15 percent of people in high-income countries were likely to get depression during their lifetime, compared with 11 percent of those in low- or middle-income countries.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">About 5.5 percent of people in high-income countries had depression within the previous year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">High-income countries had higher rates of major depression (28 percent vs. 20 percent), and especially high rates (more than 30 percent) were found in the United States, France, the Netherlands and India.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><i><b>China<\/b><\/i> had the lowest rate of major depression (12 percent).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The <i><b>average age at onset<\/b><\/i> of depression was nearly two years younger in low-income countries, the investigators found.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Does This Mean You Should Send Me All Your Money?&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">GREAT idea, but actually no this study does NOT mean that you should empty your bank accounts for your mental health.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">There are so many reasons why this study found what it found, and money itself is more likely to be a bi-product of the effect, than the cause itself. It&#8217;s just associated with depression &#8230; but the cause?&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Remember, it is &#8220;the love of money&#8221; that is the root of all evil &#8230; not $ itself. It may be that we are in a much higher stress environment, or we place a much greater value to money&#8217;s value, or to the status it affords. I could see that those societal biases are the true cause, for which money itself is just the outlet.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Bottom Line?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The most important thing in your life are the people you love. That needs to be said, and expressed. You want to look at your investments, look at the time you spend with the people you love in your life. That is your greatest investment and the single most important way to prevent depression &#8212; money or no money.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The study, published July 25 in the journal&nbsp;<i>BMC Medicine<\/i>, was conducted by researchers at 20 centers in conjunction with the World Health Organization World Mental Health Survey Initiative.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;We have shown that depression is a significant public-health concern across all regions of the world and is strongly linked to social conditions. Understanding the patterns and causes of depression can help global initiatives in reducing the impact of depression on individual lives and in reducing the burden to society,&#8221; Evelyn Bromet, of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, said in a journal news release.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">More information<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health has more about&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/health\/publications\/depression-easy-to-read\/index.shtml\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; color: #1842ad; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_new\">depression<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; clear: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 9px; width: 632px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">(SOURCE:&nbsp;<i>BMC Medicine<\/i>, news release, July 25, 2011)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthfinder.gov\/News\/newsstory.aspx?docid=655161\">Depression Higher in Wealthier Nations &#8211; healthfinder.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willcloweraudio.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Clower Audicles\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.feedburner.com\/WillClowerAudicles.4.gif?w=735\" style=\"border: 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerrecipes.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Clower Recipes\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.feedburner.com\/WillClowerRecipes.5.gif?w=735\" style=\"border: 0;\" \/><\/a><br \/>For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willclower.com\/\"> Click here to visit Will Clower&#8217;s website. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that, not only is it true that &#8220;Money Can&#8217;t Buy Happiness&#8220;, but it&#8217;s also associated with Sadness and Depression.&nbsp; A recent study just now showed that depression rates &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494],"tags":[340],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-depression"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-wP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2119,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2119","url_meta":{"origin":2035,"position":0},"title":"This week &#8230; it&#8217;s all about your heart. 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