Where You Live May Affect Your State Of Mind

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 09:28 in Psychology & Sociology

Stress and depression vary by region, according to new study. Frequent mental distress, defined as having 14 or more days in the previous month when stress, depression and emotional problems were not good, is not evenly distributed across the United States. Adult prevalence of frequent mental distress was 9.4% overall, ranging from 6.6% in Hawaii to 14.4% in Kentucky.

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