Recently, it has been repeatedly stated that we are in the midst of a mental health crisis. No matter what way depression, anxiety, or other disorders, there is an endless story about the sudden rise in psychological problems. And the news continues to get dark. on tuesday, The era In the Netherlands, there was a Annual increase of 60% In the case of euthanasia, motivated by a desire to end psychological distress. Of the 10,000 patients who died from euthanasia in the Netherlands last year, one in ten did so out of mental anguish.
Reports of increased levels of anxiety and depression are always accompanied by the phrase “since covid.” More accurate phrasing is “since lockdown” as the long-term psychological effects of forced quarantine clearly played a greater role than the virus itself.
However, the 2020 and 2021 lockdowns were not the main cause of our mental health crisis. It rests on the now-day routine pathology and self-diagnosis of the normal normal feelings of misfortune, sadness and worry. Closures were visited in a society where feelings of isolation, disappointment and failure are already rising. This is an emotion that has long been medicalized and has been established as a semi-human “condition.” This trend has traveled back decades and led to the crisis we see today.
More than 20 years ago, in his book, Treatment cultureFrank Feldy said, “Perfectly all the challenges or misfortunes people face are expressed as a direct threat to their emotional well-being.” He wrote about the broad “conviction” that “there is a lack of emotional resources to deal with disappointment and disadvantage.” He also warned that “the role assigned to people will be passive roles.”
How modest and visionary are those words today? When they were written in 2003, the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death in 1997 was revealed, making it clear that they had steadily changed the feelings that were more important than anything in Western culture. Certainly, the self-styled “compassionate” 90s with the rhetoric of “emotional intelligence” and “touching your emotions” was the decade when politicians today became older. After the turn of the millennium, the therapeutic cultures were integrated and established.
A lockdown was imposed on the younger generation who were taught to view themselves as vulnerable, but they were enacted by politicians who believed that humans were unable to be resilient and fortunate. And then the vicious cycle continued. After the lockdown, people were constantly feeling anxious, tormented and depressed. Their long-standing sense of helplessness made them mentally unprepared for what was truly tough times.
The cycle is still getting worse. Five years after lockdown, the majority of young people are unable or unwilling to face the real world, now I resigned to living with disability benefits. In this regard, they embrace and wall more time. Lazy idle deepens feelings of worthlessness when it is useless.
Now we see the most frightening consequences of the idea that individuals are fundamentally helpless. Dutch youth have grown their belief that they cannot cope with life and are now asking the nation to kill them. Our treatment culture has many answers.
The despicableness of the virtue signer
According to the report of Telecommunicationstaxpayer-funded charity followers stop hatred I’m involved in spreading anti-Semitism messages online. The campaign group recently called for a boycott of Israeli-made products and encouraged people to sign a petition urging Marks and Spencer to stop ads on GB News. The purpose is to challenge “all forms of discrimination without exception.”
Some of its allies clearly have no notes. Followers use the Stop Funding Hate Facebook page to assert that Marks & Spencer (a retailer founded by Jewish immigrants) supports the “Nazis” and “genocide” and are “run by misogynistic fascists.” One of the signatories of the Marks & Spencer petition referred to “Jewish pests” and said Israel is a “Jewish terrorist nation.”
There is a double sarcasm here. Groups that claim to be against hatred are now accused of “amplifying” hatred. Additionally, hatred of the suspension funds was given £100,000 in January by the foundation that receives grants from the state. The same British nation has become obsessed with tackling hatred in recent years.
But this doesn’t really surprise us. Those who sway their benevolent motives, as if to stop the bounty, consider this to grant them a sly license, as the name of hatred suggests. Hope, an “anti-fascist” advocacy group, is formed in this respect. In its mission to drive Britain away from “fascism” and “Islamophobia,” it has been casually smeared by Tories MPs by gender-critical feminists and free-speaking campaigners as a threat to the far-right to democracy.
“Anti-Aversive” activists are usually a problem, like all those who are certain of compassionate intentions. Those who are owned by iron-covered self-righteousness and a moral mission to drive the world away from evil act in hateful and despicable ways that they seem to fit in.
Life is essentially not life at all
There was a lot of reflection on the lessons to be learned from the Covid lockdown. As many people have written, one conclusion spike In recent days, the opinion of politicians dictatts and experts should never be accepted as unthinkable, and individuals deserve more trust.
There are even more abstract lessons. Blockade should tell us that life is virtually not alive. When the lockdown arrived, many of us seemed to have forgotten that we had embodied humanity.
By 2020, the digital revolution had rooted the myth that our bodies were merely flesh-like evil, essentially the mind and thought. Our “true” self can be expressed and sent online. It was a revelation that was a paranoid that made the lockdown so shocking. When physical contact is taken away, we meet each other, shake hands, touch, hug and fuck each other, and we once again realize that being human is about having a mind. and body.
Today, so many complaints and dysfunction continue to arise from more people living online and going outside. Feelings of loneliness, vy hope, distrust, anxiety, polarization, intolerance, invisible: all these feelings have been emphasized by their withdrawal to an unrealistic world. In this Elsatz domain, our complete humanity is cruelly diminished. There is no sarcasm, sarcasm, jokes, self-deprecation, no doubt, all voice or face clues. The nuance fades. Otherwise, what may be understood as constructive criticism or qualified disagreement in a pub, cafe or office is by default interpreted as hostility or conflict.
Back in the dark day of 2020, we literally needed to get out of it more. 2025, we are still revealing.
Patrick West It’s a spike columnist. His latest book, Overcome yourself: Nietzsche for our timesPublished by Societas.
