Depression and anxiety are on the rise and now recognized as "diseases of modernity." Western cultures in particular see the highest rates of anxiety-related disorders.
“…A consequence of analytic thinking is that its adherence to rule-based reasoning breeds a type of hyper-rational mindset. You believe every problem has a solution. It's simply a matter of analyzing, solving, striving, looking, doing, working, acting, thinking.
Because your world can be logically reduced to a set of basic cause-and-effect principles, you think answers can always be found, including problems of anxiety. Ironically, it's the constant striving for answers and solutions that makes anxiety worse in the long run. You can't analyze your way out of an anxious state.”
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