The Myth of Normal
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On trauma's profound effect on society, in the sense of 'very nature our social and economic culture generates chronic stressors that undermine well-being in the most serious of ways'.
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Normal-Illness-Healing-Culture/dp/0593083881#customerReviews
Is Mate any close to identifying real solutions, such that his 'the entire context of social structures, belief systems, assumptions, and values that surround us and necessarily pervade every aspect of our lives' includes open, inclusive collaboration on the economy that translates into growth mindsets and abundance everywhere, leapfrogging scarcity-mindset issues of poverty, hierarchy, and war?
Intro
- 20 - in 2019 more than fifty million Americans, over 20 percent of U.S. adults, suffered an episode of mental illness.
- 19 - 60 percent of adults have a chronic disorder such as high blood pressure or diabetes