Is Your Mood a Result of Where You Live?

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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Here is a better story.

[arizwebfoot]

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1891465,00.html

Re:Here is a better story.

[ep32g79]

Full text and larger pictures here

Re:My mood?

[Anonymous Coward]

Florida's the opposite way. There is a law against car stereos [albeit never enforced], but no car inspection and no regulations about mufflers and engine noise from vehicles and motorcycles. Then again, Florida is a shithole.

Re:Not that hard to find the actual paper

[proctor]

That's not it. That's an older article without the state breakdowns. I've not found a legal open link to this paper (about publicly funded research...mutter) but the site in which it resides is http://www.ajpm-online.net/

The lead researcher is a Mathew M Zack, who is not listed in this older pdf.

On the upside, I did find that the CDC makes the data on which this new paper is based freely available here: http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/HRQOL/
with a prettier but less depression specific version here:
http://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/findings.htm

Re:Hmmm ...

[Rycross]

Yeah, I've pretty much learned to ignore anyone who claims that "happiness comes from within" or that "your problems are internal." I mean, there are some cases where they are, but in most cases they're because of a shitty job, shitty friends, shitty location, or other shittiness.

Re:Hmmm ...

[HTH NE1]

Before they were books (and after they were books), they were radio plays. In the second set of fits (now called Secondary Phase) there are some significant differences which never made it into the books, mainly due to missed deadlines on the first book. The above quote is from that version.

The complete series can be imported wherever you like. Well, complete except for a bit on Magrathea where Marvin hums like Pink Floyd which is cut from all pressings due to rights issues and will probably never be reinstated within the lifetime of anyone alive today. Arthur's awe of being on an alien planet for the first time and the discovery of the remains of the whale are a casualty of this cut. Someone has a couple copies of this scene on-line somewhere at differing qualities recorded from the first airing.

Also there are some differences in the UK edition of one of the books as well. There's more adult language in the UK edition (Arthur is called an "arsehole" instead of "knee-biter") and the bit about Belgium is not there (the Rory is for The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Fuck" in a Serious Screenplay in the UK edition). I haven't tried buying the books from Amazon UK for delivery to the US. I do know they won't ship toys (unless they're attached to a DVD box set) and most electronics.