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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we all also need to consider how literally crazy-making our modern culture is.

Mental illnesses can be triggered by the environment around a person.  There's no telling who might be vulnerable to what situations and some personal relationships hurt instead of help.

I am constantly surprised by all the diagnoses on this board...2E children, Aspergers, ADHD, etc. etc.  The talk of executive functioning coaches, etc.

How I feel/what I believe (as opposed to scientifically know) is that there are a lot of smart/brainy people whose brains were designed to succeed in an environment of scarcity.  Scarce material things, scarce information, smaller groups of people to know and rely on long-term, relatively straightforward jobs where careful attention to detail might produce superior results, etc.

Now we live in a culture of abundance and many of us "smart people" can't handle the volumes of stuff, the amount of work it takes to optimize every decision, the vastly expanded social choices we have, and the greater specialization and complexity of our jobs.  We also have created quite a lot of work-life balance issues for ourselves.

I see why a lot of people have trouble now that might have been perfectly fine running a farm in a small village 300 years ago.[/quote]

No, the inattentive people still forgot to plant or harvest the crops on time, or stay off the train tracks. Those types were relegated to the sidelines and lived with their parents forever. They didn’t have computer jobs, order delivery and only interact with others online.  [/quote]

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