Fear of God

Depression rates have reached a new high in the United States. A recent Gallup poll reports that “the percentage of U.S. adults who report having been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetime has reached 29.0%, nearly 10 percentage points higher than in 2015.”1 Why is this? The article goes on to state that clinical depression had been slowly rising prior to the COVID-19 pandemic but jumped notably in its wake. Fear of social isolation, loneliness, and life-threatening...