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Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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540 points drankl | 1 comments | 06 Jul 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.287s | source
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hresvelgr ◴[07 Jul 25 00:47 UTC] No.44485587[source]▶
The lovable aphorisms we had for people with character quirks were largely from our original support systems. What no one is talking about is the reason therapy-talk has become so pervasive is because all those support systems: family, friends, and local communities (religious or otherwise), have all degraded so severely for most that therapy is the only option for reaching out and getting help.
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theusus ◴[07 Jul 25 02:36 UTC] No.44486232[source]▶
> is because all those support systems: family, friends, and local communities (religious or otherwise), have all degraded so severely.

I disagree! There was never a good support system at all. We used to just man up and live with it. Now that stress is reaching it's new heights. We can't cope with it.

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jazzyjackson ◴[07 Jul 25 02:58 UTC] No.44486333[source]▶
I'm very curious as to how you come to the conclusion that 'stress' has increased. I don't suppose it's that the world is more stressful, WWII, cold war, a thousand famines throughout history, what makes us so stressed that we can't cope in some way that we used to be able to cope?
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1. navane ◴[07 Jul 25 16:46 UTC] No.44492163[source]▶
Most of our suffering is in our imagination (Seneca) and our imaginative lives have never been as big as today. The world we think we live in has never been as big. The lives we think we could live have never been as many. The bad things that could happen to us are so much more plentyful and destructive than the bad things that do.