Digital camera shipments worldwideAntidepressant use among adults
American antidepressant use rising as worldwide digital-camera shipments collapse. Two completely unrelated lines on opposite sides of the regression line: one a public-health curve, one a consumer-electronics category absorbed by the smartphone.
US adult antidepressant use rose from about 8 percent of adults in 2002 to over 13 percent by 2022 as SSRIs normalised and the share of mental-health prescriptions in primary care expanded. Digital camera shipments worldwide collapsed from about 121 million units in 2010 to under 8 million by 2022 as smartphones absorbed the casual-photography market. Two completely unrelated lines on opposite trajectories sharing a window because the same 21 years saw two completely different industries respond to two completely different pressures.
One category retired. One prescription rose. The decade was uneven about which categories survived.
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