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Man, when the incidence rate of only major depression is right under 10%, that's common.

Expand that upwards for all severity, and it gets worse.

Throw in anxiety, and you're at around 20% for all forms of anxiety, though there is a lot of comorbidity between depression and anxiety.

But that still means there's some percentage of people with both to some level.

This isn't sadness we're talking about here, this is diagnosed cases.

If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, and there's a dozen people at the table, at least one of them is dealing with one or both of anxiety and depression. Maybe more of them.

Now, if you want to play circle jerk over "common" being used, whatever, I'm not playing that game, so you'll be doing it alone.

But the ugly fact is that you absolutely know enough people dealing with the issues that it sure as fuck isn't rare. It's right there, all the time. It's been worse since covid, and even worse with the younger folks. People under their thirties? Some data runs as high as a fucking quarter of them experiencing one or both of depression and anxiety.

So, maybe, if you aren't seeing it in the people you come into contact with, that's a you problem. Maybe you're missing it, maybe the people you know just don't trust your snarky ass to talk about their problems with you. Maybe they should change who they come in contact with by avoiding you. There was assiduously absolutely no need for you to be a dick in your opening line, btw. That's extra true if you thought that maybe I'm dealing with depression and anxiety myself. Like, someone expresses that a doctor might be lying about the prevalence of anxiety and depression, and your first thought is to be a dick to them? Fuck that