RE: Why are people depressed, anxious or suicidal?
Great article and thanks for sharing your brave adventure. I too have suffered many years with depression, but when I scale back on a work week for money I can't keep up with, get enough rest, the right food, I feel much better.
Always interested in the self-love and loving our neighbors and the whole boundary thing and also being highly sensitive and empathetic. Not an easy balance.
There are people that almost seem to believe they're entitled in hurting others--and especially in "love relationships," as if society confirms it's okay to expect a check list of our partners and if that's not there it's perfectly fine to "kick them to the curb," call the other person selfish, cite your job as the most important/reason.
Anyway, nice to know there are others out there like you who are moving towards personal healing and wisdom and away from the mass exodus from personal integrity. Many are now happy to just remain children in this system and there is no reason to grow up. Like the early teen years they try out their small freedoms in rebellious ways, hurting others, being greedy (cool kid on block) and doing whatever they want just because they were curious or felt like it.
You mentioned psychopaths and though I don't think there are many who really do fit the no empathy diagnosis, there does seem to be a huge increase in narcissism. Wondering if you've noticed that too?
Thank you. I resonate deeply with what you wrote. The psychopaths that I usually speak about are mostly in the upper rungs of power, so most of us don't really get an opportunity to experience them directly. But the narcissism is rampant and I too expressed many narcissistic behaviours during my sick days. The narcissism is indeed increasing, but I think it is more the awareness is increasing rather than the number of instances. We are going through full disclosure at the moment, which means the hidden is no longer hidden. So when we expose thousands of years of darkness it will seem like the world has gone to hell. But hell was here all along, just hidden from us. Now that it is exposed, we have an opportunity to shine the light on it all, heal it and then move on. That process has indeed increased in the past few years and continues to accelerate. It will take many more years yet before we are finished exposing all the darkness.