I would be curious to see this broken down by preexisting mental health status. I don’t expect EA to have much negative mental health impact on people who already have ~normal mental health, but given the widespread normalization of e.g. scrupulosity, AI doomerism on the community level, i suspect that people coming into EA with preexisting mental health concerns might see them get worse, or face slower recovery.
I would be curious to see this broken down by preexisting mental health status. I don’t expect EA to have much negative mental health impact on people who already have ~normal mental health, but given the widespread normalization of e.g. scrupulosity, AI doomerism on the community level, i suspect that people coming into EA with preexisting mental health concerns might see them get worse, or face slower recovery.
This sounds plausible. Unfortunately I don’t think we or Rethink Priorities have this data to do this breakdown at the moment.