Stress and Depression A Cause of Modernity

There are six distinct features of modernity, which have a psychological effect. Everyone has a potential cure, which we will collectively put into action only then when we know more about the disease in question. Here are six:

MERIOCRACIA

Our friends tell us that we are all free to succeed if we have the talent and energy. The problem with this idea is that, any lack of success, real or perceived as such, does not get as in the past, like accident or lack of luck, but a certain sign of talent, or laziness. If all those on the top deserve all success, then the ones at the end must surely deserve all failure. A society that thinks of itself as meritocratic turns poverty from a problem to evidence of the curse, and those who have failed from bad luck to losers.

The cure is a strong and culturally embraced belief in two major ideas: fate, which says success does not depend solely on talent and effort; and tragedy, which says good people can fail and deserve compassion, not contempt.

1. INDIVIDUALISM

One individualist society preaches that the individual and his achievements are everything and that everyone is capable of a special destination. It's not the community that matters; the group is for those who have no hope. Being the usual “” is considered a curse. The result is that exactly what most of us are going to end up being, statistically, is associated with failure.

Cura is a cult of the common good life and the proper assessment of the daily's silent pleasure and heroism.

3 / 1 LAICISM

secular societies stop believing in anything larger than that or go beyond that. Religions once performed the useful service of keeping our status battles in perspective. But now there is nothing to surprise or relativize human beings, whose triumphs and wrongs end up being seen as everything that exists.

A cure would be the regular use of transference sources, to generate a good perspective, the relating of our personal concerns - music, stars, great desert or ocean spaces - would make us humble in comforting ways.

1. ROMANTISM

The philosophy of romance tells us that each of us has a very special person who can make us completely happy. Yet, in most cases we need to be content with people who are very good in certain ways but very difficult in others. It looks like a disaster, compared to our great initial expectations.

The cure is to realize that we are not wrong. We were simply encouraged to believe in a very impossible dream. Instead, we should direct our ambitions toward friendship.

1. MEDIA

The media has a huge prestige and a wide place in our lives but constantly turns our attention to things that scare us, disturb us, panic us and anger us while we are denied any chance of personal action. He constantly deals with the least admirable aspects of human nature, without balancing with an exposure to good intentions, accountability and honesty. In the worst case, it makes us lean toward the righteousness of the crowd.

The cure would be a media focus on producing solutions instead of inciting anger, which exposes systemic problems instead of emphasising on the Turkish head and monster emblems, and will constantly remind us that the news we need to focus on is from our lives and live experiences.

1. PERSOSMERIA

Modern societies emphasize that it is imperative to be deeply satisfied, reasonable, and fulfilled. As a result, we end up hating ourselves, feeling weak and wasting our lives. When it would be a culture that constantly promotes the idea that perfection is not ideal for us that being mentally a little “fine” is an integral part of the human situation and that, above all we need, are good friends with whom we can sit and honestly discuss our real fears and weaknesses.

The psychological stress forces in our world are actually stronger than the treatment needed. We deserve to be pitied for the price we need to pay in modern times. But hope lies in the fact that cures are already open to us, individually and collectively, only if we clearly discern our true sources of anxiety and concerns. / “The Book of Life” World.al