With more mental health professionals we have worse mental health. We are in a crisis of meaning. We hunger for values, community and something greater than ourselves to dedicate our lives to. We wake in the night sorry for ourselves and our Planet. All this has produced an extraordinary and changing level of pain in our society.
Modern humans are in pain.
When you add up all the hurts, we hurt more than we used to. And that is true, I believe, of many, many young people who are living lives in pain, hurt and quiet desperation. Something also increasing in our time and changing is the level of fear . Fear of crime, fear of the future, fear of unemployment. And in our success culture, there is incredible fear of failure.