Mental illness has become a political identity — and SURPRISE, it's on the left: Study

There have been numerous studies in recent years highlighting correlations between political affiliation and mental health.A 2021 study published in the journal SSM-Mental Health, for instance, concluded — on the basis of an analysis of depressive attitudes among conservative and liberal 12th graders from 2005 to 2018 — that "conservatives reported lower average depressive affect, self-derogation, and loneliness scores and higher self-esteem scores than all other groups."'These findings have far...