We do not teach people how to deal with their feelings and emotions. This is why drug and alcohol use are at all-time highs.
Don’t deal with your feelings, here is a pill that makes you feel good.....temporarily.
Don’t deal with your pain, here is a pill that makes the pain go away....temporarily.
Then, those people need more and more of the crutch.
Medicines and drugs have their place, but only when people are in control of themselves.
Society’s lack of understanding and control over emotions is why we have snowflakes, vagina-people, deviants, pedophiles and many criminals.
Our crime rates would plummet if people understood and could control their emotions.
But nobody wants to talk about this....it is part of our mental health crisis and it is what fuels the drug trade.
Great post! I would add that it not just feelings and emotions that people are not willing to deal with. Most people in our society also have very little tolerance for pain, discomfort, or even inconvenience. There are those of us who some of us who will go a little too far the other direction at times also.
A few years ago I had been suffering from abdominal pain for a couple of weeks. Then it got better for a week or so before it started getting worse again. My wife said my complexion was changing colors and said that if I didn't go to get it checked out she would shoot me herself.
It turned out that my appendix had ruptured over a week before and I had developed a severe life threatening infection from all of the goo leaking into my abdominal cavity. They told my poor wife that my chances were not good.
The emergency surgery lasted for over two hours while surgeons and medical staff temporarily removed my intestines from my abdominal cavity and thoroughly washed everything down and loaded me up with antibiotics.
When I woke up I had a machine attached to my IV that would deliver morphine into my blood when I pushed a button. They told me that I was going to be in a lot of pain when the medication from the surgery wore off and to push the button when that happened. But I never experienced what I consider a lot of pain and didn't have to use the button.
I just wanted to get out of the hospital so I could go on experiencing my amazing life. They said I was going to have to stay under observation in the hospital for a week. But after just two and a half days I had been such a pest to the nursing staff that the head surgeon came in on his drill weekend in his BDUs. He said to my wife, “Your a nurse. We do not think that Lt. Miller is happy here. Would you take him home, keep an eye on him and make sure that he doesn't hurt himself?”
She agreed. The next day I had to fight with her, but I got back on my bicycle with tubes and puss collecting sack still hanging out of my abdomen but hidden under my jacket. But I took it easy and didn't climb any steep hills. I have always had more than a bit of trouble from an ADHD type of personality. If I had remained sitting around I probably would have started focusing on my discomfort. Exercise and accomplishing things is strong medicine.