Well in America I blame it on social media & unrealistic expectations based off of manufactured realities. For the longest this impacted mostly women. Now it's almost a complete 180. Women are still held to unrealistic beauty & family standards while men get that now combined with financial & strength expectations.
Its a topical society where status, superficial appearance, and the perception of wealth define who you are more than any actual standards or values.
Also, mental illness is handled poorly on all sides of the isle. Its almost encouraged and enabled on one end or completely dismissed on the other.
A majority of the people who we call influencers are narsasastic mentally ill clowns. People who love to hear the sound of their own voice ramble non stop for over 3 hours a day on a podcast. Or people who are obsessed with looking at themselves on video or pics 24/7. Often fishing for compliments or validation. Or even worse intentionally bragging to make the world envious.
This is what we feed to our sheep like population 24/7.... Its a breeding ground for mental illness to multiply IMO.
well that's certainly a factor, but i wager a lot of it has to do with the modern lifestyle in general. it isn't just social media that puts pressure on us, education, careers, hell even politics do too.
i read an interesting take from someone (forgot who, unfortunately) that the jobs we do today have a much higher impact on our feelings of unfulfillment. 100 years ago, the jobs we worked were mostly about
producing things. you were a farmer, you grew shit and worked the land. you were a shoemaker, you made shoes. carpenter, engineer, whatever. the result of the tasks you performed all day was something you could
see. it was something concrete, and that gave you a sense of a job done, something achieved.
today, a lot of jobs involve putting shit into an excell spreadsheet and making sure data gets to the right people at the right time. you can work all day in an office, do a thousand little things, and at the end of the day the result of your work isn't visible, can hardly be measured at all. all that time and effort, and there's nothing to give you a sense of accomplishment. that fucks with our well being, big time.
i'm a software engineer so it's not that bad, but i have definitely felt this at times.
