Reddit mentions of Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

I have to disagree with you on this one.

The mental health system may be underfunded, but I don't believe that good people are being born depressed or bipolar. It's as though we treat new wounds every day, but we ignore the fact that we are stabbing ourselves daily.

Ultimately, I believe we live in a society that is increasingly alienating ourselves from real humanity. I mean, we all know how important it is to connect to people, to have friends, to reach out, and yet there are many of us live for YEARS in a house and never know the names of their neighbors. This is stunning to me. What's even more revealing is that when you begin to examine the very poor places, the collapsing ghettos of Detroit, the falling-apart wooden shacks of rural georgia, the immigrant labor camps hiding in North Carolina, you actually see something quite the opposite. Entire families sitting on the porch sharing stories, doing hair, or gathered around a BBQ, telling jokes and laughing animatedly, or playing quitar and harmonica all afternoon, watching white people hurry past in expensive cars, chasing their tail.

It's telling. It's very telling that people in poor countries like Bali or Panama can be so much more content than we.

I'm not the first to notice or point out this obvious fallacy in our logic. (book)

So I want to interrupt your thought process before you agree with Hentez. Although he/she has a good point, and yes, the mental health system cannot keep up, the answer to our problems is not more mental health facilities or funding. The answer isn't more anything. The answer is that less is more, and it has never been truer.

Thank you for reading this. As you can no doubt tell, this is an issue I feel quite strongly about, and one I've rebuilt my life because of.

Affluenza? I liked it better the first time I read about it in 2002 (originally PBS documentaries).

https://www.amazon.com/Affluenza-All-Consuming-Epidemic-John-Graaf/dp/1576751996