Bellevue looks nice! (via LIFE)
It seems some German college students have deemed the urban brain more susceptible to stress, which inevitably makes us all go a little mad. [We would like to make a brief aside here to note that Germans love David Hasselhoff, so who are they to judge?] Wired reports on the study, which found that city life can change your brain and generate mental illness. City dwellers have higher levels of anxiety and mood disorders, in comparison to their country counterparts. Also, this:
The schizophrenia risk of people raised in cities is almost double. Literature on the effect is so thorough that researchers say it’s not just correlation, as might be expected if anxious people preferred to live in cities. Neither is it a result of heredity. It’s a cause-and-effect relationship between environment and mind.
Basically, we become so stressed out living here that our brain is eventually unable to handle the stress and we become mentally ill. Book your room at Bellevue now! One researcher noted that while the study "links cities to mental illness via social stress," they don't yet know what the exact causes are, only that they likely have to do with urban social environments. So, what could possibly be stressing us out so much? Whatever it is, let us help with a little chant:
