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Perhaps the definition of good mental health should be:

"The mind and body being in equilibrium with the environment/culture."

I made that definition up just now and I'm not an expert on mental health.

Perhaps extreme personalities that are in disequilibrium with western capitalist culture might be better suited to other cultures.

Therefore I believe that problems surrounding so called "disorders" might disappear the individual was placed in an environment better suited to his/her neurology. I'm not saying that some people don't have real issues with functioning: I'm saying that moving the person to a better environment could help a lot.

I don't know. I feel very uneasy about the number of people being drugged up today just so they can fit in with a fast pace/hyper-social culture.

Perhaps our bodies and minds, adapted to hunter gatherer lifestyles, sometimes struggle to keep up with civillisation. Some may be struggling more so than others due to their brain wiring, possibly though no fault of their own.

Last edited by AmberEyes on 27 Nov 2008, 12:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I agree with everything you expressed, AmberEyes.

My husband is a gadget fan and keeps trying to get me to use these things. I tell him that I don't want to live the kind of life where I need to have these things.

im not reading anymore studies. too depressing! why are there so much? in america everyones always doing a study and then like a year later another study found that the previous study was wrong.

It's called Science.

Hypotheses can be falsified in the light of new evidence.

Not everyone is always happy with their hypotheses being falsified, hence there are "angry scientists".



Perhaps consumerism and Capitalist society are consequences of human's gatherer instincts gone out of control.

We've cluttered up the world with gadgetry because of it. I'm not saying that all gadgets and goods are bad, they can be very useful.

Perhaps gadgets are like a kind of modern day "magic" and serve a similar function in creating the illusion that we as human beings have control over the natural world...