The modern world is amazing in many ways. But it has led to powerful and tragically high background unrest and widespread low-level depression.While there are many things about modern life that make our daily lives easier, there are also many other aspects that can make us mentally ill. It is not the chemistry of our brain that is making us sick but it is modern life. We need to look at mental health through a broader paradigm - social rather than chemical. What people fail to understand is that mental illness is not a mental illness that can be cured by drugs, but is the result of a toxic society and our harmful lifestyle.
We are basically just lonely and have lost our hopes and aspirations for an important future, so we are stuck in social media and electronic screens to fill our voices. No medicine will help in such medicine.There are some features of modernity that have a psychological disturbing effect. Everyone has a possible cure, which we will collectively implement as we learn more about the disease. Here are some:
1.Meritocracy: Our societies tell us that if every person has potential and energy, he is free to create it. The bottom line of this clearly free and beautiful theory is that the lack of success is perceived, as in the past, not as an accident or misfortune, but as a sure sign of a lack of skill or cheapness. If those at the top deserve all their success, then those at the bottom must deserve all their failures. A society that sees itself as a merit shows poverty as a problem and those who unfortunately fall into deficit. Healing is a strong, culturally valid belief in two great ideas: luck, which says that success does not depend on skill and effort alone. And tragedy, which speaks well, civilized people may fail and deserve sympathy instead of an insult.
2.Individualism: An individualistic society preaches that the individual and his achievements are everything and that everyone deserves a certain destiny. This is not the importance of society. The group is for those who have no hope. Being 'normal' is considered a curse. The bottom line is that most of us have a laid back attitude when it comes to statistics. The cure for this is a group of good ordinary life - and a proper definition of everyday pleasures and silent bravery.
3.Secularism: Secular societies stop believing in anything that is bigger or more than themselves. Religions served to keep our small paths and status battles in perspective. But now there is nothing to frighten or connect with human beings, whose victories and accidents end as if everything ends and everything ends. One treatment involves creating an authenticity and perspective on your personal sorrows by regularly using over-the-counter resources: music, night stars, deserts, or the vast expanses of the ocean.
4.Media: The media has a great deal of prestige and a great place in our lives - but as usual our attention is directed towards things that cause us to be scared, anxious, frightened, while giving us agency or effective personal action. Deny any opportunity. Without balancing good intentions, responsibility and politeness in general, it usually engages in the least admirable aspects of human nature. The worst part is that it leads us to the mob of justice. The cure would be news that focused on offering solutions rather than anger, which was alive to systemic troubles instead of happily emphasizing scapegoats and symbolic monsters. And live experiments.
5.Perfectibility: Modern societies emphasize that we are deeply satisfied, sensible and successful. As a result, we are forced to lose our lives, to feel inferior and to feel inferior. Healing will be a culture that promotes the notion that perfection is not within our grasp - that mental well-being is an essential part of the human condition and what we need most. They are good friends with whom we can sit and talk honestly. Our real fears and dangers.
Fatima Baloch
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