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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh come on. It is plainly not more stressful and complicated for people to exist now. This is probably the easiest and least complicated time to exist ever.

It’s unbelievable indulgent and myopic to claim that now is the most stressful and complicated time to exist while living in a country with a history including slavery, multiple wars, Native American genocide, and where most people couldn’t even vote for much of the time. Good Lord. Get some perspective. [/quote]

Actually, it is quite complicated for our brains. Our brains have real limitations and will be unlikely to evolve to manage them as we can't process more information compared to what people 100s of years ago processed but our brains are processing more for longer periods of time. This is why they hypothesize the rise in anxiety, ADHD, ADD, sleep issues, etc. Even something as small as blue light disruption over decades creates long-term sleep issues. You can compare it to the way light at night disrupts the flights of nocturnally migrating animals. Your brain is quite literally performing 1000s of processes just sitting in a room talking. Add in dings from cell phones. Fluroscent lights. The glare of the TV or other screens. Honking from horns or the sounds of trucks running past. The radio playing loudly in the background. Your brain has to process in order to filter it out even if you don't purposefully filter it out.

We interact with more people than ever -both directly and indirectly. We have more visual and auditory stimuli. Humans are overly stimulated and underconnected. The stresses are absolutely different. [/quote]

Yep this.  Our ancestors, for all of the challenges they faced, were far more resilient.  There’s a connection there.  This modern era’s big challenge is figuring out how to increase welfare for everyone and address the very real decline of mental health at the same time.[/quote]

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