If we look at this research and also look at the recent analysis that 1/10 people have some kind of autoimmune disease like Crohn’s then it seems safe to conclude that stress is literally slowly killing us.
Seems like the root issue might just be society wide stress and anxiety at levels and at a scale never seen before. We can jaw all day about how GDP has never been higher and how much TV there is to watch now, but we’ve never been chronically sicker and we’re trending the wrong direction.
I had a GI tell me every time I visited him that stress has zero connection to the manifestation of my Crohn's symptoms. Yet here I am; years later, I'm off all the meds they prescribed and 95% of my days are symptom free through keto dieting and yoga to manage the stress. The stress of the corporate world was literally killing me, I do much better working on startups - a different kind of stress.
Agree. A lot of people talking about cures here (and a lot of pseudoscience), but not a lot of people exploring the societal psychological aspect. I've noticed a lot of people, especially younger people in America, creating their identity entirely around consuming things that are short-lived trends. It really leaves people empty once the tide goes the other way. It's like systemic insecurity. I'm wondering how fostering more concreteness in our culture (as well as workplace structure changes) could help with this, but I have no idea how to approach it from the ground up.
Seems like the root issue might just be society wide stress and anxiety at levels and at a scale never seen before. We can jaw all day about how GDP has never been higher and how much TV there is to watch now, but we’ve never been chronically sicker and we’re trending the wrong direction.