Commentary: What if the reason is not that things are getting worse but that we are getting worse at thinking about things in constructive ways?
Last week the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an advisory panel that provides healthcare screening guidelines, recommended that all adults younger than 65 be screened for anxiety. Earlier this year they recommended anxiety screening for youth.
People are also reading… The more one studies the situation, the more it looks like increasing screening and hiring more therapists is a losing game. It’s like bailing water out of a sinking boat. At some point, you have to fix the leak. The big question is: What is causing the rising rates of anxiety?
A study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that cognitive distortions — patterns of thinking associated with anxiety and depression — have surged in the last few decades. The authors speculate that our society may be undergoing a collective depression. At one point in time, it was assumed that developing mental discipline was an essential part of education. That is after all, why the various branches of academic study are known as “disciplines.”
One sign that we are losing our minds is the fact that wellness is now a $4 trillion industry. People know something is wrong and are grasping at solutions. The marketplace is happy to provide those solutions in the form of essential oils, biohacking, facial exercises, fitness apps, yoga classes and detox regimens. It’s not that any of these things are bad, it’s just that they don’t address the root of the problem.
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