Mental Illness (Mental Wellness)

I only made it 30 mins into the discussion with Peterson and Dillahunty so far. They both talk so fast it's hard to keep up with what they are saying. I did read some commentary on it that gave me a little more insight on Peterson. I know he's spiritual but I rarely have heard him speak of it in a personal way, it's only been for lectures in academia. When talking with Sam Harris, something Peterson said was Harris did not sound like an atheist to him. That's because Peterson cannot let go of one's moral authority being tied into what they believe in spiritually/religiously. He knows Harris has sound moral authority and therefore must believe in something even if he doesn't realise it yet. I recall watching his discussion with Sam Harris because I started following Harris before Peterson. They both evoke big-brain power, but it was easier following their conversations than this one. Going to pull up something else from Dillahunty to familiarize myself with his arguments. As for Peterson, discussing religion vs atheism isn't the meat of why he's followable. It's his expertise in psychology that draws people to him.

There's some really good stuff of his that's been posted earlier in this thread. Better than the Dillahunty debate. He's a big follower of Jung and archetypes so his lectures are pretty interesting.

BY ZLATI MEYER2 MINUTE READ Millennials may love avocados, Fitbits, and booze-free cocktails, but that doesn’t mean they’re healthy. In fact, their health is declining—and since they’re the largest cohort currently in the U.S. workforce, with close to 73 million people, that will have major implications for both healthcare costs and economic growth, according to a new Moody’s Analytics report prepared for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, a group of 36 local Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies around the U.S. The research, released yesterday, found millennials’ physical and mental health is declining faster than that of Generation X. (For reference, they define a millennial as a person born between 1981 and 1996 and a Gen-Xer as someone born between 1965 and 1980.) The report cited conditions such as hypertension, high cholesterol, and behavioral health conditions, including major depression and hyperactivity, as increasing among millennial-aged Americans. And if there’s no intervention, millennials’ mortality rates could skyrocket over 40% compared to the generation immediately before them. With free-falling health comes increased healthcare costs. The data indicated that costs could jump as much as 33% compared to Gen-Xers, when the latter were at the same life stage. Those ailments will also pinch their pocketbooks in less direct ways, due to more unemployment and slower income growth. Moody’s Analytics determined that millennials could see a decrease of more than $4,500 in real per capita annual income due to health problems. “As millennials become less healthy, they are more likely to miss work or stop working altogether,” it went on. “Furthermore, even when they are working, health concerns may prevent them from being as productive as they would have been had they had the same health profile as previous generations.” The report cited other studies that determined one of the reasons for millennials’ depression (along with alcohol and substance abuse): their concerns about money. “Less healthy, less wealthy” is the rhyming couplet Moody’s Analytics uses. The 32-page report said it shows “the beginnings of troubling generational health patterns that could hamper the future prosperity of millennials, and in turn the prosperity of the U.S. If the current pace of decline in millennial health continues unabated, the long-term consequences to the U.S. economy could be severe.” The report adds that the forecast increase in healthcare costs will be shouldered not just by individuals and businesses, but also by state and federal governments. Currently, the U.S. spends 17.9% of its gross domestic product on healthcare, according to the federal government’s National Health Expenditure Accounts. Nowhere else in the developed world do federal governments spend that much.

More millennials are also dying "deaths of despair," or deaths related to drugs, alcohol, and suicide, Jamie Ducharme reported for Time in June, citing a report by the public-health groups Trust for America's Health and Well Being Trust. While these deaths have increased across all ages in the past 10 years, they've increased the most among younger Americans, Ducharme said. They accounted for the deaths of about 36,000 American millennials in 2017 alone, according to the report. Drug overdoses were the most common cause of death. The report cites a few reasons behind these upticks — young adults are more inclined to engage in risk-taking behaviors, comprise the highest number of enrolled military personnel, and disproportionately live in "high-stress environments" like correctional facilities. ... But there are other structural factors at play behind the uptick in "deaths of despair," according to the Trust for America's Health and Well Being Trust — namely the myriad financial problems millennials are facing: student-loan debt, healthcare, childcare, and an expensive housing market. These four costs are part of The Great American Affordability Crisis plaguing millennials that's putting them financially behind. Studies have found a correlation between people with debt and mental-health problems. While this research, by its nature, can't identify causality, the likelihood of having a mental-health disorder is three times higher among those with unsecured debt, according to a meta-analysis, or study of studies, in the Clinical Psychology Review. People who have died by suicide were eight times more likely to have debt.

I feel like I didn't need any kind of statistics to tell me melenial health, especially mental health, sucks. Maybe it's just pharmaceutical companies doing their thing, but it seems to be getting rarer and rarer to come across someone who isn't currently taking some kind of medication.

Want to know how I went down that rabbit hole? I was looking up the death of the hipster. It lead me there. lol https://youtu.be/U4dY52NiYvU

@yaasshat No... well it does.... also Those dirty bastards..... No, kay so follow me... I was thinking about how culture movements change and some of their idealologies follow over to the next arising culture. Like goths and metal heads gave carried over into emo culture and then scene <remember these girls> https://www.styleinterest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/6656-Scene-Haircuts.jpg .... which then shot offspring into hipster territory. You can still see hipster influence and all the prior cultural movements present today still. I think hipster emerged the last couple years I was in college. Anyway, found interesting stuff along the way. Thought I would post it here because it pertains to said topic title and I'm nuts so here's your sign.