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Is Your Mood a Result of Where You Live?

Posted by samzenpus on from the home-is-where-the-misery-is dept.

Ed writes "Apparently, the Centers for Disease Control released a study indicating that geography can have a significant impact on mood. You may not be surprised to learn that Kentucky is more depressing than Hawaii. However, ranking up there with Hawaii are Minnesota, the Dakotas and Wisconsin. Frustratingly, they have not yet published the study on the web, so it is left as an exercise for the reader to find the original study and post a link for the rest of us."

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  1. Hmmm ... by Xaemyl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Live in a crappy neighborhood makes for crappy moods? Lemme be the first to tell the CDC: DUUUH!

    1. Re:Hmmm ... by aliquis · · Score: 5, Funny

      Since crappy neighborhood probably mean you are there for a reason, such as unemployed / low income and such, yes.

      Personally I live in Sweden and the lack of light and low d-vitamine levels probably don't help much either.

      That and virgin at 30.

    2. Re:Hmmm ... by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Still, even in what the popular consensus holds to be the happiest of places, the following quotation could still apply:

      Ursa Minor is almost certainly the most appalling place in the universe. Though it is excruciatingly rich, horrifyingly sunny and more full of wonderfully exciting people than a pomegranate is of pips, it can hardly be insignificant that when a recent edition of the magazine Play-Being headlined an article with the words "When You Are Tired of Ursa Minor You Are Tired of Life" the suicide rate in the constellation quadrupled overnight.

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      Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
    3. Re:Hmmm ... by Nutria · · Score: 4, Funny

      Personally I live in Sweden and ... virgin at 30.

      But Anheuser-Busch says that all Swedish babes are hot and will jump in bed with you if you drink Bud-wei-ser?

      --
      "I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
    4. Re:Hmmm ... by BeanThere · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hehe ... you should've seen me before!

  2. My wife lives in the same place I do by syousef · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...not in post natal PMS Hells-ville, so I don't think the article quite holds.

    If you're reading this honey, just kidding! Love you! Let's go shopping for an eternity ring... ;-)

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    These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
  3. Re:My mood? by maugle · · Score: 4, Funny

    xkcd has a better solution to your problem.

  4. Re:My mood? by nametaken · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jesus. Sounds like you win the "most depressed" award in a thread about depression.