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This essay speculates about why some surveys find American liberals, especially young women, generally report more depression and anxiety than conservatives. It draws on a handful of studies, media coverage, and expert quotes. On personality, it notes that liberals tend to score higher in openness and neuroticism, while conservatives score higher in conscientiousness, which the author suggests might make them less willing to acknowledge stigmatized issues like mental illness. Other ideas include liberals labeling milder struggles as illness, social media use, and physical health differences. The author admits that since mental health diagnosis relies largely on self-report; which makes it interesting, but not a validated finding.

This piece profiles NATO leaders through a personality lens ahead of the Ankara summit, framing Trump's dominance and Dark Triad-style narcissism as a volatility source, Starmer's low charisma and conflict avoidance as weakness, and Carney's pragmatic competence as limited by Canada's modest power. Rutte's diplomatic, mediating temperament and Frostadóttir's passive stance round out a table of clashing personality types Rutte must manage.