Psychology

If you look very carefully, psychological disorders are adjudged by deviations from the norm.

The further you are away from some mythical norm, in one respect or another, the more likely you are too have a certifiable psychological condition.

Oddly there is no such thing as a perfect human, one that doesn’t deviate in any regards from the mythical norm.

The norm is this great big white space in the middle of the spider diagram, describing all the disorders. That’s because, for most of us, our extant deviations are below a threshold required for the tick of approval required to get insurance cover for treatment. But yet we do deviate a little, in more ways than one.

A certifiable human could reasonably argue that it is the cluster fuck of normal humans that have the problem. Because, in fact, it is the discomfort of these normal humans that is being diagnosed when someone gets treated or locked up for their mental health deviations.

Which brings to my primary point. I believe that we now live in a neurotic society. The norms are very high in anxiety and getting worse.

My view is that too much comfort and wealth is at such odds with our natural state of awareness and anxiety that some part of the brain trips a fuse.

It may be that the residual sane people will soon to be locked up.