What gives with the huge rise in depression / mental illness etc, as recently reported?
The disparity between expectation and reality? This seems a reasonable explanation.
I don't doubt that there are more pressures in modern society compared to years ago, but human beings are resilient and most of us should be capable of dealing with these pressures, that's why we have successfully evolved. Mental health issues are really probably little different to what they were years ago. Then people just got on with life warts and all, or were cared for by the family or if they were really bad put into an asylum, and there was no proper means to collect data. Nowadays it gets reported and put into database somewhere and that means it can be accessed immediately and manipulated to give you any number of different outputs to suit what you are looking for. And as far as the individual is concerned at the present time, people are more likely to seek professional help given the information and opportunities available to them, all of which did not exist in years gone by.What gives with the huge rise in depression / mental illness etc, as recently reported?
This concept of a well paid job or having a good job is farcical.
Any job is what you are forced to do to make money to pay the increasing demands put upon people either by the corrupt system or the dillusion that having more makes you happy.
Keeping up with jones is one of the biggest causes of debt and misery in peoples lives
Earn �ã100 spend �ã99 = happiness
Earn �ã100 spend �ã101 = misery
Just �ã1 makes all the difference
A humble bin man with food on the table / roof over his head / good health / friends etc is happier with his lot than the stressed-out businessman in a constant effort to maintain or further his lifestyle and material possessions. Me - I don't have much but then don't want much.. The sleep thing is a biggie - I do a 3-shift system and don't know if I'm on this earth or Fuller's most the time. This causes a permanent state of angst and spikiness which even manifests on the forum occasionally:lol:. Plus I have grown to hate my job, a situation which may well be remedied over the next few weeks. I'll be worse off financially but it ain't always about money, not by a long shot.
Would that be a Fullers ESB clone?
I haven't read the article (will have a look later) but my take on the subject is people (especially men) are now far more likely to talk about depression rather than bottle it up and keep quiet like us males of a certain age did in the day.
A humble bin man with food on the table / roof over his head / good health / friends etc is happier with his lot than the stressed-out businessman in a constant effort to maintain or further his lifestyle and material possessions. Me - I don't have much but then don't want much.. The sleep thing is a biggie - I do a 3-shift system and don't know if I'm on this earth or Fuller's most the time. This causes a permanent state of angst and spikiness which even manifests on the forum occasionally:lol:. Plus I have grown to hate my job, a situation which may well be remedied over the next few weeks. I'll be worse off financially but it ain't always about money, not by a long shot.
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