Mental health clinician… Worked Christmas Eve and Christmas (a lot of extra money), and got no calls so that’s nice. I took new years Eve and day off. In general we see a lot of kids leading up to the holidays. Sometimes a lot after too; can be hit or miss I guess. Our busiest times are at the changing of the seasons, spring and fall, when seemingly everyone becomes manic/psychotic.
I think it’s a matter of the difference between the quality of life one COULD have vs what they do have. A couple hundred years ago, even royalty died from diseases that are curable today. Society need 90% of people to be farm labor just to be able to provide for 9% military and 1% aristocracy. Today, we know we COULD have access to things that would substantially improve our quality of life, and could have those things without needing much human labor, but these things are being kept from us.
Maybe numbers to help me explain:
Hundreds of years ago you might have lived at a 1, but the best anyone could hope for was like a 3. Today, you might live at a 3, but everyone could be living at a 9. So it’s the difference between how we DO live, and how we COULD live that people complain about.
I got messages from this one too… Kept trying to get me to switch to zangi to talk to it