Are nervous breakdowns increasing?

I mentioned in another thread that it's harder to get through the days. Feel like I'm falling apart physically and mentally. Things are getting worse so it's not surprising if more people are having nervous breakdowns, anxiety issues, etc.

I could go on forever about why we see the bullshit and others don't but i think it's best to just leave it here.


I wish you would. I'm not sure if it's because I'm cynical and have a pretty good bullshit detector and I'm certainly not into lying to myself about how everything's peaches and cream while everything falls apart around us.

What are your thoughts?

What you say brings to mind a closest friend raised post-wartime england. When midwives tended growing families on call with their bicycles, were housed in nunneries yet were not bound to church in that way. Where social and community needs were considerate and intrinsically warm..so that inevitable deficits were fulfilled in a human sense..plus shared tasks promoted some good humored tolerance rather than brutal judgements.

This reminds me of those Japanese water tiers where spillover is directed and the water not trapped as so many "religious" ideations form emotional prisons around things that ought not be dammed up. Then become extreme from internal and external denial..instead of rolling accommodation.

I see a welcome breakdown, at least that would be more real than this hell on earth that's been created.

Awareness* more sensitive* not weak*

I agree, and the breakdown is not only welcome - it's essential. There is only so much that can be obtained through the collective experience of ego gratification through means of outright exploitation. It's all a cycle, of course, something the ancients all understood. The real question is how will we progress through this? The next cyclic phase will no be competitive, it will be cooperative. But in the face of current circumstances, it will take a cataclysmic event to awaken or unfold that new collective will.

I know mine are.

This world is just too much for some people.

I do not witness it personally, because I am a hermit by choice of introspection. But I witness the increased 'uneasiness' of people on the internet.I would say this 'dis-ease' has been steadily increasing over the last decade.

What seems evident is that there is a 'pressure' being put on humanity to change. This 'pressure' or 'gravity' if you will, manifests and people 'break down'.

It stands by logic that people need to 'break down' in order to build up again.Without these 'pressures' people would not change. It seems that a Force puts this 'pressure' on people in order to stimulate change.

Whilst I agree with Light of Kukulkan that culture is in itself a pressure, we cannot find the 'space' and 'freedom', this pressure from the cultural restraints is within and inclusive or part thereof the same Force that pressures us to change and improve. If we took civilised people and put them out into the natural environment, and they adapted and got into a natural groove, this Pressure to evolve into something greater would still exist.

If we took people from civilised worlds and brought them into 'natural' ones, by all means, they might argue less, by all means, they would find more Space, but still they would be imperfect, and likely argue over who ate the last kangaroo.

This Force, I call it the Death Force. I consider all pain, all anxiety, all depression, all sickness, a sign to the person who experiences it.

Like everything in the world, there are polar forces. Feeling Good. And Feeling Bad.
Feeing Good is one stairway to Heaven.
Feeling Bad a stairway to hell.

We are not told explicitly how to be as Humans.
But we are give Instant Karma.

For example. One might get into a rage on this internet forum, and instantly feel Bad because of his own rage.
I do not separate anxiety or depression or any ill feeling.
To me, they are all part of the same Force, the Death Force.
Although it has been said, anxiety is worry of the future, and depression worry of the past.

I prefer to consider it this way. Here we are now. We have thoughts. These thoughts are like swords striking us. Every thought tends to be an anxiety. But if somebody tells you, you are thinking too much about the future, it is of no help, it does not fix things.

The average human has no stairway out of his own mess. Even if you told him to meditate, he will not listen. He will mock it. So you see, everyone has free will to improve themselves, that is why I do not uphold to the idea that Culture is responsible, because we are our culture.
We cannot blame the movie, nor the song.

The movie did not tell you to ignore your own feelings.
Humans are lost, and have always been lost, and each feeling guides them, but I will give you an example personally. I said I was a Hermit, but I do on occasion visit my mother. I cannot help my mother. I can nudge her. But she blocks her ears to what I say.

The world has much work to do, but nobody can say, it's the world's fault, because that makes it somebody else's fault. Humans are beings 'in progress'. If they did not have the bad feeling, they would never change for the better.

Nobody will likely read this.

There's no such animal as a nervous breakdown. It could be neurosis, psychosis, depression, anxiety, or mania, etc. but nervous breakdown means nothing.