Urban vs rural. Are mental disorders more common?

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Amongst urban people who live in big busy cities as opposed to people who live in small quiet rural places?

Personally I would think that big cities generate more cases of mental illness because people are beeing stressed out by a busy environment and there are a lot more interaction and confrontation between people who are very different. I haven’t seen any studies on the topic though.

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Sounds plausible. One thing about people living in rural areas. Might be harder for people in rural settings to get treatment though so more untreated people. Which means while people in urban areas might see a therapist about anxiety or depression and stuff and get treated and go their merry way and not need any more treatment. People in the country may have a lingering mental illness.

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In my small town of 2,000 people there’s 4 people that are diagnosed with sz that I’m aware of… I feel like that’s a lot for such a small town

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i grew up in suburban. So away from city but lots of houses. city had around 70,000 people.

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Yeah, about 30 000 in the suburban parts where I live, but I work in the city nowadays, and at the time of my first psychosis I was living in the city.

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I could see how going from living in suburban to city would be more stressful as we just arn’t used to the hustle and bustle of a city growing up.

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i think @77nick77 has the answer. cities are more serviced by mental health proffessionals and therefore discover more cases of mental illness.

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I don’t know about that. If someone goes into psychosis even in the countryside their family or friends will recognize that they need professional help and will at least have to get in touch with their doctor to help and then the person will be diagnosed.

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yeah you may be right. another thing to consider is cultural differences between city and rural folks as to if one group is less likely to seek treatment.

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Personally, I found cities more stressfull, but ive pretty much always lived near or in cities, so i dont know for certain. Its probably different for everyone.

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i live in the countryside not sure how many people have sz here though…

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I have always lived in the city, i love it, dont think i would like to live in a rural area! I think i would have got schizophrenia anyway

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