I was wondering, has society been getting weaker, or has the world grown harder? In past generations, there hasn't been such rampant mental disorders and troubles about stress. Nowadays, it seems as though disorders such as depression are diagnosed like the common cold. Everyone is depressed, everyone has ADD, and not just ADD mind you, people often point out that they have AD<b>H</b>D. Not that I think ADD is not legitimate. I even think that Adult ADD is legitimate, but it's diagnosed too freely, and people claim to have it as though it is something to be very proud of. I guess I just I have two questions. First of all, as I mentioned above, are people becoming weaker, or is the world becoming harder? And second, are all of the disorders that are much more frequently found around more because we either did not have a name for it in the past or didn't understand it as well, or is the increase because people are making more excuses?
It may very well be that we simply didn't have the abovementioned designations for those "problems". I don't think we're weaker but there's definitely room for improvement.
society has serious problems, there used to be one kid per class with ADD a few years ago, now i find my school is dealing with entire classes of them. calling it ADD is the problem, these kids are taken away at the first sign of trouble and diagnosed with ADD, then for the rest of their lives they go for a free ride claimnig all their bad tests are bad behaviour is the fault of their ADD, many of these children would turn out fine, and be functional if they were punished for bad behaviour and given tuition for bad test scores, but instead people brush it off and say that its not their fault. if that stops then the problem stops, to a large amount anyway
There are more people depressed and such because people have to decide everything themselves, in contradiction to the past, when norms where much stricter/clearer and everything was more communist? Communist is probably the wrong term, but it comes close. I use it in the meaning of the state organizing much more. Examples of the former: -it isn't obvious anymore that you marry, whereas like 40 years ago you pretty much everybody got married just because that was the norm. -there is little job security anymore, in the past you worked your whole life at the same company if everything went normal. Example of the latter: -here (Belgium), stuff like water, electricity etc. used to be a monopoly, a company property of the state, or something like that. This has changed, people have to decide who they want to buy electricity from, it has become an open market. This is freedom, but freedom comes with responsability. Many people can't deal with this freedom. I think this is a explains a pretty large part of the decrease of mental strength of society.
