Thanks to the Outdoor Pressroom for, as always, providing content when I’m having a hard time coming up with new stuff…
I’ve been known to rail, often for whole days, about how living in this city environment is making me nuts. Some have argued that it has less to do with the urban environment and more to do with my pre-existing condition, but now I have scientific support for my argument!
According to this article from Wired.com, city dwellers experience higher incidence of psychological problems, such as schitzophrenia and mood disorders.
Compared to their rural counterparts, city dwellers have higher levels of anxiety and mood disorders. The schizophrenia risk of people raised in cities is almost double. Literature on the effect is so thorough that researchers say it’s not just correlation, as might be expected if anxious people preferred to live in cities. Neither is it a result of heredity. It’s a cause-and-effect relationship between environment and mind.
We’ve all read about or seen the experiments with crowding rats into a limited environment, and several scientists have extrapolated from that the idea that humans would exhibit similar issues. The research reported in the article appears to offer an even more concrete link.
For my part, it may be too late… but I’m getting the hell out of this city as fast as I can go.
Beastslayer
Well…since my plans for moving to the country are still a few years away, this is definitely not good news
Get out while you can, Phillip.