Our generation is blessed with the type of opportunities our parents would have only dreamed about.
Technology, for one, is taking us to places and connecting us in ways we wouldn’t have even been able to imagine just a few years ago.
But as a result of these rapid changes, our society is faced with new challenges.
In this 4-minute BigThink video, Dr. Andrew Weil, professor and founder of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, explains how depression rates are much higher in today’s society than what they were even during The Greater Depression and World War II.
Research is pointing to our disconnection with nature and our highly-processed diets as being part of the reason. What other factors do you think are negatively influencing our well-being?
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Bright, shiny objects! 
I believe the concepts of total freedom and the independent lifetyle/create your own reality have added to those who suffer from being overwhelmed by the myriad of choices we have to pick from and leaving those who fail/stumble feeling alone in their crisis…i.e. “I made the wrong choice, so I have no one to blame but myself” – – In a media society that worships material success, and lauds the Independent American Spirit – there are those who flounder without a sense of what it means to be a part of an interdependent community…
IMHO –
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That’s a great perspective. Thanks for sharing…
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Thanks for posting this info! :)
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It’s what I do…
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