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What medical conditions seem more common now than when you were growing up?

57 replies

BeLimeViewer · 03/08/2026 11:05

gender dysphoria

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BillieWiper · 03/08/2026 18:02

ND in general.
Anxiety.
The consideration that addiction is an illness.
Eating disorders, especially those that are liable to make you a heavier weight.
Type 2 diabetes.
Dementia. Probably because people are living longer?
People surviving cardiac arrest.

TigTails · 03/08/2026 22:42

Kidney disease, probably because people are more likely to survive for longer

Finsku · 04/08/2026 10:33

ruethewhirl · 03/08/2026 14:23

75%?? Give over.

I guess I'm only considering the people that I actually see. I belong to a community singing group, comprising mostly of women over 45. A quick look around the room revealed that most of us are overweight. Similarly, when in a supermarket, I see a lot of overweight people.

However, I do believe that it's beginning to decrease now, thanks to the miraculous weight-loss drugs. A few of my friends have been having the injections and they've lost a lot of weight and look so different.

LoafofSellotape · 04/08/2026 10:41

roseymoira · 03/08/2026 13:41

Nut allergies. Anxiety. OCD has gone down actually, and replaced with ADHD.

Nut allergies aren't more common,it's just that nuts weren't in lots of foods like they are now. Some people were only every exposed to nuts at Christmas. The guidelines used to be that you didn't give children under 3 nuts in case they 'choked' when in fact they were having a nut reaction/ anaphylaxis shock.

Rocknrollstar · 04/08/2026 11:11

Cancer, asthma, mental health problems, depression, anorexia. Need I Go on?

itsgettingweird · 04/08/2026 11:17

Yes definitely bowel or stomach cancers.

I’ve lost 2 friends and my mum to it the past few years and another friend just admitted to a hospice and will die very soon 🥲

In fact the 3 friends (about will become) have all been the last 9 months. We are in our 40’s.

JudyTeeny · 04/08/2026 11:28

Dyslexia. I remember children at primary school who were called "backward" because they had trouble with reading, writing, spelling etc. I never knew anyone diagnosed with dyslexia when I was at school, but there must have been several. It was always called "not trying hard enough".

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