Could it possibly be aggravated by the media telling us things that are obviously and immediately contradicted from what we see of raw, first person video accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube?
>Why, in the world’s richest country, is every metric of mental health pathology rapidly worsening?<p>Simple. A lot of people are not having their needs met by "the system" while simultaneously feeling the resources are there to have their needs met.<p>People in third world countries seemingly deal much better in many ways in my experience. Although their needs aren't being met, they see no path to their needs being met, that just feels like reality to them.<p>People in the US who's needs aren't met have the thing they want thrown in their face to the point of absurdity constantly.
Robert Putnum has studied this extensively and was considered the domain expert until his results didn't match the ever changing requirements of adherence to political correctness. His work is still out there but even the linked article didn't bother to reference it. His data concluded the wrong thing so now it is to be shoved to the side so everyone can shrug their shoulders and pretend not to see what's at the heart of society's unravelling.
While very resonating and personal, I wish he had included data in comparison with the rest of the world. Data on where the US falls short, relatively, could give better insight into identifying the problems and getting to the solutions.
The US stopped being "government of the people, by the people, for the people" a long time ago. And the population is slowly waking up to that fact. I fear that the long term consequences will be seriously bad. As in "You ain't seen nothing yet."
>Many people fortunate enough to have survived this pandemic with their physical health intact<p>It's just the flu for 90% of people.<p>So this constant you are a 'survivor' for everything that happens to you can't be helping.<p>We now take pride in anti-stoicism.