Insanity And Unhealthyness

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Insanity and unhappiness lead to unfulfilling lives. From the view of Fromm, he tried to judge the insanity of society by different source of fact and he interpreted insanity on the basis of ‘pathology of normalcy’ (Fromm, 1991: p.6). Looking at alcoholism, suicide and murder rates, modern society has gone insane, related to “pathology of normalcy’ (Mathews, 2015) Mental stability can be roughly indicated by the destructive acts of people. Making reference from the research data of World Health Organization, the incidence rate of destructive acts were relevant indicators in 1951. Fromm found out that people who supposed to be sane were suffering from mental unbalance. United states, which was a democratic and prosperous country, was associated …show more content…
Busyness is one of the major causes. For physical health, busyness for work leads to the short of sleep and hence, leads to health problems. Simultaneously, pressure driven from work may lead to anxiety and guilty (Kreider, 2012: p. 1). For example, 25 % of American now experience depression which is related to work (Gregg 2003: p.164). More evidence that people in the most democratic and peaceful countries in Europe, suffer from anxiety. It leads to suicide and alcoholism and these are the symptoms of emotional instability (Erich, 1991: p.7-9) More serious is that the disturbance of our lives beclouds our pursuit of happiness, thus, people don’t even consider own happiness (Gregg 2003: …show more content…
Searching for an optimal lifestyle is one of the solutions. People should squeeze time for resting and spend time with relatives. There is a saying- ‘Live even a single year in perfect serenity (Yoshida, 1967: p.7). Busyness makes people feel anxious when one can change his or her lives by Idleness. People can stand back from lives (Kreider, 2012: p,3). It is achievable in the case of Tim Kreider. He values time more than money and spend time with his love one because life is too short of time, therefore, hustle and bustle all the time is not worth (Kreider, 2012:

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