Does the economy have you googleing depression?

No Comment // Written on Mar 03, 2009 // In the news, What's on my mind

A year ago people were worried about a recession.  Now its painfully clear we are in the middle of one of those, but lately, people are starting to think depression? I didn’t think I was the only one pondering this thought, so I went over to Google Trends, where you can look up how popular any search is (like Chris Brown was googled a lot recently, or All Star Game for example).

So I looked up Depression, and also compared it to the stock market. Although I was too lazy to get the charts to line up perfectly, you can see that every time the economy drops (which happens a lot lately), people google depression a lot more.

Google uses this same technology to see how bad the flu is getting, (Flu Trends) where you can even break it down by state.

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Anyway, right now neither we, or our President Obama have any control over the economy. Nobody knows what’s going to happen next, when it’s going to get better or when we will see the bottom. So just let go and trust God which is all any of us can do at this point!