A rather odd dichotomy when you ponder that fact-people in third world countries are too preoccupied trying to stay alive and worrying about food and shelter to suffer from insomnia. Americans have trouble finding the time to rest and even when they stop long enough to do that, they are plagued by unexplained wakefulness. Now, the medical experts have also deemed that the angst is effecting us severely in so many ways, we may run short of acronyms to label them. Doctors have identified a multitude of other conditions related to anxieties resulting from circumstances as unlikely as overnight wealth. We have more labor saving devices than at any other time in recorded history.
Help is readily available from therapists, personal career coaches, fitness trainers, and chefs.
Cars are capable of going faster, access to information and anyone is almost instantaneous, and more people have more money than ever. On the surface, it would seem that we all should be living the so-called good life. Perhaps, one thing lacking is a good antidote for the thick layer of superficiality, which may actually threaten to overburden us, rather than relieving our problems. If we had the right answer to that question, we could retire to Tahiti no doubt. We do, however, have a few suggestions.