My experience on my mission is that you are much more likely to baptize a social outcast that anyone else.
When I was in Japan for a time, it seemed that all the male investigators and recent converts (the n is small here) were either mentally ill or weird.
I don't have a sense of whether Utahs are more or less mentally ill than anyone else. Even if they were, what would that mean? For example, blacks are much less likely to commit suicide in the US. But much MORE likely to commit homicide. Makes you a criminal, not mentally ill, but not really a better outcome.
Utah has less people in the entire state than live in my city.
The western US in general has higher rates of depression and suicide (against partly because there are more white people in the west).
Cultural explanations can get kind of pedantic. Like thin models are causing anorexia in the general population. But somehow can't stem the obesity crisis?
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