You’re Not Crazy - People Aren’t Ok. Here's Why

And I did a video recently that got a ton of traction called Surviving the Collapse of the Modern Psyche.

And I put that video out and people really responded to it.

But I put that video out because when I look at the statistical data and the research around the rise of mental health issues.

I get very curious about what's contributing to these things, but I also try and look at it from a perspective of not only where are we at, but where are we going to go? What's the trajectory that we're heading towards? And in that video, I made a prediction.

It's a very simple prediction.

And unfortunately, I think more and more that it's going to come true.

And that prediction was twofold.

Number one, we are going to continue to see the rise of mental health issues spike.

They're just gonna get worse before they get better.

And number two, we are specifically going to see a collapse of the modern psyche, meaning more and more people are going to experience symptoms of psychosis.

And that was the main point of the video.

The main point of that video, which I encourage you to go check out, is that people are going to be more and more disconnected from reality.

That actually is what psychosis is.

Psychosis is a series of symptoms.

It's not necessarily a diagnosable thing like severe depression or bipolar or multiple personality disorder.

It's not something that's clinically diagnosable in the DSM-5.

It is a subset of symptoms that people experience.

And we can talk about what's contributed to that, right? Obviously there's things like social media that has contributed to the disconnection of people.

I do think that more and more as we see the rise in lacking meaning, more people are lacking meaning.

And when you see the sort of structures of our culture, of our society that have always given meaning to people, those things are collapsing more and more and they're being consolidated into political ideologies.

And when your sense of identity, your sense of self, your sense of meaning, your mental health and wellbeing are contingent on political ideologies.

It's a very difficult thing for you to experience, but it also makes you very malleable and pliable.

You're much more easy to control, to coerce, to manipulate simply because the, and this is true for a lot of the people that I think are going to struggle more and more in the next three to five years, the next 10 years, Individuals whose identity has become swallowed by political ideology on whatever side they might be on are really going to struggle because they are disconnected from the things that have largely been giving us meaning.

But underneath all of this, I think that there's something a little bit more subtle, something a little bit more simple.

And that's that people have stopped caring.