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Emotional Health in the Age of Disconnection
Perspectives on emotional integration and holistic psychiatry.
A MIDWESTERN DOCTOR
MAY 24, 2023
Many people believe the most significant issues facing the Western World are emotional in nature (e.g., anxiety is often termed the disease of the modern age). In turn, a common observation is how often the emotional patterns individuals carry end up controlling their lives (frequently causing them to make terrible decisions) and continually making it a miserable life to live.
I believe all of this arises from a few key things:
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Marketing Economies
To get individuals to buy something, typically one of two things needs to be done (assuming you don’t, for example, mandate a dangerous and ineffective product no one wants to receive):
•A good case needs to be made for the product is necessary to the buyer and can provide a value greater than its purchase cost.
•The product is sold based on emotional appeal rather than its intrinsic value.
Since the 1970s [this date was my best guess but may be incorrect], our economy has gradually transitioned from selling products based on their merits to selling based on an emotional appeal. This is because most of the population has a stronger response to this type of advertising (the broad implications of which will be discussed in an upcoming article) and because you can sell an unlimited number of things for emotional reasons. In contrast, the utility of many products can quickly evaporate after a sufficient number of purchases, thereby making it very challenging to sustain sales indefinitely if a product is marketed solely on its merits.
Almost all emotional marketing follows a straightforward formula:
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Make the watcher feel bad (e.g., envious, insecure, or self-loathing).
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Present the product as the solution to those negative feelings.
There are a few significant consequences of this:
Read more:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/emotional-health-in-the-age-of-disconnection
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I write The Forgotten Side of Medicine where I expose pharmaceutical corruption and remarkable therapies lost to time for the health of humanity