>>12855577The psychological troubles growing rampant in our times originate mainly from our increasingly shallow inner lives, mainly due to society confounding well-being with material wealth, and fueling inauthentic social relationships through excessive comparison to others, both because of traditional norms and social media. Even once you have achieved the thought process necessary to unravel these harmful constructs, you still have to take rigorous care of your physical health on a daily basis through a balanced diet, stable sleeping patterns and sufficient exercise, which very few people achieve diligently for long periods of time. On a more fundamental level, humanity has distanced itself from the natural world in a very rapid fashion compared to evolutionary time scales, leaving each of us disconnected from nature on a psychological level (lack of interaction with plants, animals, lives based around screentime and virtual interactions) and on a physical level as well (decreased immunity, compromised microbial flora due to overused antibiotics/pesticids, soil nutrient depletion, exposure to increased levels of pollutants etc). All of these combined factors may very well explain the exponentially rapid growth of depression and anxiety in the general population seen in the last decades, and may also very well contribute to the rise of obesity, cancer, cardio-vascular diseases and other metabolic and age-related ailments like alzheimers. Of course, the progress of medicine offsets the tremendous damage we are causing to ourselves but it is treating the symptoms, not the cause. There is immense work to be done in the coming centuries to realign our lifestyles and global activity in a more sustainable way, or we will pay an unimaginable price, both regarding our own bodies and the state of surrounding ecosystems. All is linked together in a very intricate fashion, and we have offset the balance in a way that cannot be overstated.
