Showing posts with label mental health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mental health. Show all posts

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Loose Ends







The polls have closed. On the dreams issue, 6 voters do not remember their dreams. That leaves a tie between anxiety dreams/ one damn thing after another, and some other way. On the terrorist issue, "I feel threatened by Islamic terrorists" was solidly trounced, 72% to 27%. Remember, if you give in to fear, then the terrorists have won! Thanks, though; you have confirmed my suspicion that more of my friends live in Ron Paul's America than Tom Tancredo's.

To participate in another poll (Who is more famous, Stephen Jay Gould or Michael Jackson?), see pictures of my lizards, and take the "What is my daemon" quiz, go to Cindi and Mary Beth's Holistic Enneagram Agency. We have 17 posts already!
There is an interesting discussion going on in the comments for the Republicans have better mental health post: Is mental health defined by being able to sincerely describe oneself as happy, and also not be driving other people around you crazy, or do you also have to be a productive member of society?
Also, a friend of mine went to a party last night and talked to people about dreams. He reports that "it was uniformly tolerated and in most cases enthusiastically embraced." He did "follow Beje's 3 sentence rule pretty carefully though." Good work, Beje.

Friday, November 30, 2007

Correlations with self-reported mental health

Gallup has just released results of a new poll on mental health. Being a Republican correlates with better self-reported mental health; as does having a higher household income. Men's is higher than women's; whites' higher than blacks'; the more you go to church, the better for reported mental health; these aren't too terribly surprising.

This surprises me:

Percentage reporting excellent mental health:

Married: 51
Living with partner:41
Divorced: 32
Widowed: 36
Never Married: 47

I am used to hearing that married people are happier. What I've never heard is that the never married are right on their heels, and crushing three other categories! I mean, does anybody ever say anything postive about the never married? Hooray for us!!