http://articles.health.msn.com/id/100103843
Men’s Health compiled this list based on antidepressant sales, courtesy of NDC Health; suicide rates, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); and the number of days inhabitants reported being depressed, based on the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, accessed through bestplaces.net.
The 20 Most Depressed Cities
I can’t wait until I move there.
At least part of the list is based on antidepressant sales, which strikes me as really bad methodology, due to the number of people who are with no health insurance and may be depressed but simply have no access to anti-depressants and probably either drink or do illicit drugs to numb the pain, or simply suffer in silence.
For the record, I have relatives in Indiana and the only way anybody would be able to coerce me to live there for more than a day or two is with heavy, heavy medication. Churches, corn fields, heat, humidity and mud. Nothing else there. I’d rather live in Detroit.
So, yeah, I agree.
I don’t know, I like Indiana. Of course, I’ve also lived here my whole life. I really like Indy, too. Oh well.
So, there are 5 more depressed places than this,
good grief!
Indianapolis is also the home of Eli Lilly, makers of Prozac…
Detroits #2!
In more ways than one.
Hey, bite me: I live in #5 and work in #3!
And it doesn’t even get cold here. What in the hell do we have to get depressed about?
I think some editor at Men’s Health Magazine got dumped in Detroit by the love of his life. We are in the top three of every negative listing they have, it seems. Just in the past year, they’ve called us the fattest, the most sleep-deprived, most likely to have STDs and now they’re saying we’re depressed? Well who wouldn’t be!
I’ve never not lived in Indiana so I have no idea what the rest of the US is like. I sometimes worry that if I find a job in indy, i’ll never experience any other place here.
I lived in West Lafayette (location of Purdue University) for 12 years. It was really a nice town. I always hear people say, “Eyyyyyeewwwww, Indiana, full of hicks and corn fields.” But that wasn’t my experience at all. I guess college towns are just different. Anyway, there are some decent parts of Indiana.
I hear they’re hiring in Crawford TX.
Ooops. That’s for masochists.
You also have to keep in mind that I really, really hated those relatives–they were unbearably trashy rednecks (the types who aspire to be carnies. I’m not kidding. Carnies.). I’m 100% sure I didn’t see the nicer parts of Indiana. 
So, I’m probably not giving the place a fair shake. Not a fan of the weather, though. It always seemed too damn hot and humid down there for its own good.
And Lilly employees get Lilly drugs for free, and can go to the Lilly health clinic …
Maybe we Indy residents are simply more aware of depression 
Seriously, though, winter and early spring are nasty times - gray and yucky. You can tell we suffer from sunlight deprivation, as the first few sunny days in spring we’re all outside no matter what temperature it is. But at least we get more sun and less snow than the lake-effect-affected South Bend area.
Wesley, I also grew up in Indiana and was sorta sad that I never lived anywhere else. But now that we’re settled in Indianapolis, when I visit other places it always feels good to come back home (is that Jim Neighbors I hear?)
St. Louis is #4.
What I want to know is, how fine a line do you have to walk to be ranked between Tampa and St. Petersburg?
Doesn’t Indygirl have something to say about this?
Yeah, how could anybody who lives near Indygirl possibly depressed? Unless it’s the depression that comes from having a thing of beauty so near at hand and yet being unable to hold it.
She can get pretty depressed based on what i’ve seen. Come to think of it I only know 2 people in Indy and both suffer from depression. Odd.
Rather, I would think it’s one of the least depressed cities there is, being that everyone’s on depression medication.
I’ve lived my entire life just across the river from Purdue. I’ve never had a yearning to see anything other than what I have right here in front of my face. I adore IN (even though Indy is too big for my tastes - sadly, Lafayette’s getting there). I was born here and I plan to die here. I guess that’s sorta depressing.