Flipping Mental Illness on its Head by Looking at the Stats

The earth shattering book Cross Currents talks about a correlation between the effects of radiation and mental health. The following statistics from Psychology Today are not in the book but reinforce on a world wide scale Dr. Becker’s arguments. Low income countries have less technology and therefore less radiation and electropolution. • “The World Health Organization reports that overall prevalence of mental illness is 27 percent lower in low-to-middle income countries (11,000 per 100,000 of population), such as those in sub-saharan Africa, than in high-income countries (14,000 per 100,000).” • “In high-income countries, prevalence of depression in urban settings… are 39 percent higher than in rural settings. Anxiety disorders are 21 percent more common in urban than in rural environments. Peen et al of the Arkin Mental Health Institute in the Netherlands, pooling data from 20 separate studies, found that the overall rate of mental illness is 38 percent higher in cities than in the countryside.” (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/long-fuse-big-bang/201612/amish-asthma-rates-offer-clues-preventing-mental-illness) (The author, Lily Gardner, is The North Star Radio Show Host on blog talk radio every other Thursday at noon MST.)

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