Kentucky = Depression & Mental Illness

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Rates of depression and other mental-health problems are higher than the national average throughout the mountainous and sparsely settled region known as Appalachia. They are higher still in the coal-mining areas of central Appalachia, which includes most of eastern Kentucky.

Poor mental health in Kentucky is part of a constellation of social problems that includes high joblessness and drug abuse. ?When people don?t have good jobs to support families, I think that leads to depression and anxiety, which in turn leads to substance abuse,? Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear told the AP in 2008.
 

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The remaining states that form the top 10 are filtered with plenty of red states:

Arkansas
Indiana
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
Nevada
Oklahoma
Tennessee
West Virginia
 
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