Well sure, I suppose the last 50 years might be more accurate. I just meant more, our entire society has been progessively changing (for better or worse) at a high rate (not just technologically, but sociologically) since the industrial revolution.

And I would never argue a single point you've made, I'm smarter than that. To me that's the obvious default explanation, because it takes the least amount of time to come up with, and argue; and yet it is at all points a valid argument. We don't have a wide enough range of accurate past history, to really accurately measure real rates; rather than just reported rates. However, I just like to ponder (sometimes out loud) other possibilities, even when I already think I have an answer to a question.

 

A more recent theory on mental disorders involves disruption/imbalance of neuroimmunological mechanisms:

http://en.wikipedia....neuroimmunology

 

Well your both right in one way or another, CU pretty much hit what I was trying to say in my short post right on the dot.

This is exactly why our 'rates' are up, and other diseases like cancer and Alzheimers are up because these are things that typically set in at a later age. Back when the average life span for humans was 30 years old, I doubt they EVER saw a single case of alzheimers.

This is also true in a sense, but I wouldnt say strictly from the industrial revolution, its more a long the lines of that theres less 'survival of the fittest' going on, we (as a race) believe in preservation of life, therefore all the traits that typically wouldnt be selected for have a nearly just as good of chance of getting passed down as any other trait (except for the ones where the person has like 8 legs, bc no one is gonna wanna fkuc that ) So like someone else said in here, with everyone living out a long fulfilled life, all the traits, and not just the good ones are getting passed down, which essentially speed up evolution