Prevalence of mental health issues

[cantdrv55]

I’m hearing quite a few folks, relatives, experiencing mental health issues or even crises.. Seems to be happening more often now vs in the past. What’s going on? Is it our food, culture, media or what? Everyone gets depressed but before the advice was “suck it up” or even “snap out of it”. Now, it’s therapy or drugs. Have I been living under a rock or is it a new phenomena?

[masraum]

I wonder if it's happening more now. It certainly could be for a bunch of reasons. Or if it's more acceptable to talk about now and back in the day, it was kept quiet.

[look 171]

I swear my kid's high school principle thinks all kids have mental issues and kept pushing them to see the school shrink. He also think more then a certain percentage of the student is suicidal. Fooking nut job, IMO. In their high school there's a shrink to cuddle with the girls who broke up with their boy friends. Yeah a lic. psychologist for just that. I say, suck it up.

[look 171]

IMO, people aren't talking to each other anymore (you know with facial gesture and all) but are always on the damn phone and they get offend, get bend over it. Simple example, some here will call you out and almost get into fist fight over the screen but in real life, that will never happen and the conversations are much more civilize.

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by cantdrv55

...is it a new phenomena?

Not new, just more widespread. As populations continue to grow more dense, and the pace of first-world life gets more & more frantic, increasing numbers of those with fragile coping skills are losing their grip.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by look 171

IMO, people aren't talking to each other anymore (you know with facial gesture and all) but are always on the damn phone and they get offend, get bend over it. Simple example, some here will call you out and almost get into fist fight over the screen but in real life, that will never happen and the conversations are much more civilize.

Says you, you poopy head!

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.

[Arizona_928]

Interesting arguments.


If people don't talk to each other. Explain hermits? In fact with the social interaction at ones fingertips. It would be the opposite, no?

First world issue due to increased demographics is a lazy answer.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by rcooled

Not new, just more widespread. As populations continue to grow more dense, and the pace of first-world life gets more & more frantic, increasing numbers of those with fragile coping skills are losing their grip.

If the incidence of mental illness is increasing, I think it's due to much more than population density or more frantic lifestyles.

In the last few more recent years societies have sustained enormous and unprecedented shocks. Not the least of which is AI and the internets. In addition, the lockdowns, the violence and the gnawing realization, even if not consciously recognized, that the institutions we have relied on forever, all across the board, are crumbling-and nobody seems to be able to stop it. Faith and respect for our 'leadership' is gone.

Rather suddenly, people are beginning to feel helpless, unprotected and confused.

Helplessness, fear and confusion are not conducive to reason. Underlying our daily lives is the vague awareness that a reckoning is upon us.

[fanaudical]

My opinion - Mental health issues are certainly on the rise. I have zero proof of this, but suspect there are two main causes:

#1 - Increasing "social decay" of our society.

#2 - Increasing presence/density of radio frequency radiation.

[LWJ]

Don’t forget Covid.

I was talking to a buddy last week. Pitched him on a job offer that would have meant a 4-5x on his income.

He tells me he is burned out and wants to do manual labor for a while. (Office Space anyone???)

I think Covid is greatly underrated on its social destruction and what it did to us.

[look 171]

I like to know if this percentage is higher in a certain age group then others? Is this happenning in other countries? I still remember hearing about this happenning to Japanese kids that are jumping off buildings due to their poor grades and not getting in a top university. We wondered about them, but now it seems the tables are turned and we don't hear about them anymore. Has it stopped there? Pink Floyd even wrote something about it in their song.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by masraum

Says you, you poopy head!

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.

Good, how do I unfriend (or was it de-friend?) you on here but I rather meet you behind the gym after you get off work. That or we can race our Caymans for pink. Bring it on baby.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by fanaudical

My opinion - Mental health issues are certainly on the rise. I have zero proof of this, but suspect there are two main causes:

#1 - Increasing "social decay" of our society.

#2 - Increasing presence/density of radio frequency radiation radiation.

This, and we are packing the rats into the habitat more tightly

[cockerpunk]

society has stopped functioning for the vast majority of americans. they are correctly traumatized by the lack of care, the lack of compassion, and lack of any support society provides in any way.

we treat this societal problem, as an individual problem when we call mental health issues from stress from lack of affordable housing, healthcare, and jobs.

social order is broken, and we are all coping with finding out how little society has been set up to help anyone. until our society fixes itself, there will be no stop to mental health issues.

[NYNick]

There's much, much more awareness of mental health issues now than even 10 years ago, let alone 25 or 50 years ago. Even PTSD is a 'relatively' new diagnosis.

Let's also not forget the fragility of our society these days, where you can take a service animal on a plane with you because flying makes you nervous (or you don't want to pay for cargo), or a moderately off color comment gets you condemned and canceled forever.

Not to mention big pharma making big profits.

It all adds up to a much larger incidence.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by fanaudical

My opinion - Mental health issues are certainly on the rise. I have zero proof of this, but suspect there are two main causes:

#1 - Increasing "social decay" of our society.

#2 - Increasing presence/density of radio frequency radiation.

Don't forget the chemtrails!

Sorry, I'm not discounting that RF could potentially affect people or maybe even just some people. But in certain circumstances, your #2 point would be pretty funny, and triggered thoughts of conspiracy theorists which dovetail nicely into this thread that we're having. Made me chuckle.

[berettafan]

My take is legit poor mental health sufferers are being lost amidst a sea of snowflakes who can't handle anything not going as planned.

I do think 'suck it up buttercup' is underutilized these days but I also think that is a destructive thing to say to folks with real chemical imbalances or developmental problems.

[berettafan]

Originally Posted by LWJ

Don’t forget Covid.

I was talking to a buddy last week. Pitched him on a job offer that would have meant a 4-5x on his income.

He tells me he is burned out and wants to do manual labor for a while. (Office Space anyone???)

I think Covid is greatly underrated on its social destruction and what it did to us.

Correction: The RESPONSE to Covid was the problem. Covid itself was not the problem.

[craigster59]

From 1991 to 2018 prescriptions in the USA for SSRI's rose 3,000 percent. Last year the number of prescriptions written for the most common SSRI's was 224 million. There are approximately 334 million people in the USA.

Psychotropic drugs don't necessarily accomplish much except for increasing Big Pharma's profits. And social media combined with a deluge of negative information doesn't help either.

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by berettafan

Correction: The RESPONSE to Covid was the problem. Covid itself was not the problem.

i care about a million americans dying. its amazing to me how few people do. they still are dying too.

i was in 9th grade when 9/11 happened. about ~3,000 americans died that day. i came of age while being lectured by 50% of americans why we needed to spend 8 trillion dollars, and thousands of my friends lives invading arab nations that had no effect on 9/11, and to do anything less was unamerican and siding with terrorists. even questioning the nesssiety of these wars, and the money and lives lost, was fighting for terrorists. people accepted any cost, of life and money, and it all justified to never have a day like that ever again.

and i cannot compromise that those very same people, when 3,000 americans a day were dying of covid, also told me it unamerican to do *anything* about it. having meltdowns in target over wearing a mask for 10 minutes.

the utterly profound lack of caring for other people, its astonishing. the only thing i can figure out, is that demanding we send 18 year olds to die in arab nations, expensively, for no real purpose, is not really personal work that someone has to do. and actually having to do something slightly inconvenient for a short time, is actually something that person has to do. its amazing how low that bar was though right? telling 18 year olds to die for pointless reasons: easy. not having a meltdown in target: a lot of work.

the rebranding of anger as "not an emotion" and the the rebranding of not caring about your fellow human beings as "not an emotion" and "not a mental disorder" is wild.