If there is one thing that affects mental health which is not directly neurobiological or biological in general, its sociability. Human Sociability is getting much worse. Sociopathy, Autism & Narcissism is increasing, as if it wasn't already bad enough in previous decades & centuries. More people are forced into loneliness against their will & sustained best efforts. Pathological Lying & Cheating is up. Love-Fraud is up. Backstabbing is up. Befriending is down, Marriage is down. Empathy & Vocabulary is down. Heres a seemingly funny one; Even skull shirts are up, dozens upon dozens of death-worship & darkness-based symbolism clothing in all stores
There is no substitute for forced isolation except to end forced isolation. A person cannot adapt, cope or take drugs to fix that problem if the person suffers (many dont) The amount of suffering and ill affect on mental health from isolation varies from person to person depending if they how autistic, average or hyper-social they are. Of those 3 trait markers of a sociability spectrum, hyper-social is most rare, Autism is up to at least 1 in 166 births, but thats just clear cases from asperger's to severe. Its more like most the population (more than 1 in 2) to a lessor degrees than Asperger's is. You will also note many people posting "I am alone by choice" or "I have less of a social life by choice". There are tons of posts on other forums of people saying something paraphrased along those lines in threads about Friendships, Family, Love, Social Life.
Heres an except from the Hedonistic Imperative regarding ideal human sociability:
http://empathogens.com
Quasi-psychopathic callousness forms part of 'normal' archaic mental health.
It is considered normal to be sociopathic to some degree & not have the normal human consciousness in terms of socability let-alone in intelligence, perception & general well-being. The population is broken and it is getting more broken. No one has the normal human consciousness, but since there is no frame of reference for what a true-normality would be, this sub-par & dark kali-yuga-like state humanity is in will be considered the norm.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7008380/
Oh wait, now its 1 in 88 who have autism, (and like another 86 who are semi-autistic, semi-sociopathic and 1 or 2 normal people)
http://www.foxnews.c...sm-cdc-reports/
Edited by Saffron, 09 March 2014 - 12:54 PM.