If there’s one country on earth
where people should be happy,
it’s the United States of America.
But depression affects more than
19 percent of American adults, 3
and anxiety disorders affect more
than 40 million, or 18 percent of the
population.
A 2016 federal data analysis found
that suicide rates in America had
surged to their highest level in
thirty years, rising in that period by
63 percent among middle-aged
women and 43 percent among men
of that same age.
LIVING
a life of
JOY
By Dr. David Jeremiah
54 Solutions
A worldwide study of 90,000 people
showed the ten richest countries in
the world also had the highest rates
of depression. The United States had
the second-highest rate, exceeded
only by France. This tells us that joy
and happiness aren’t dependent
on wealth and circumstances. Those
who have the most reason to be
joyful are often the most depressed.
“We Americans are obsessed with
being happy,” says theologian and
philosopher J. P. Moreland. “But we
are also terribly confused about what
happiness is. As a result, we seldom