Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about "anxiety"!
The Blue Book on China's Mental Health released in October this year pointed out that the detection rate of anxiety risk among adults in China is 158%, and about 40 million people suffer from anxiety disorders.
In 2019, Chinese scholar Professor Huang Yueqin published a study in the journal Liuyuedao, and his team investigated 310,000 people, with a sample covering all ages, both rural and urban.
Surveys have shown that the prevalence of anxiety disorders has reached 757%。You must know that the anxiety disorder and anxiety disorder mentioned here is a pathological anxiety state with somatization symptoms. For example, ordinary anxiety disorders will feel palpitation, chest tightness, precordial discomfort, rapid heartbeat, but there is no organic lesion, there is no organ problem when you go to the hospital to check for examination, but it is caused by psychological problems, and will cause insomnia, decreased work and life ability, and in severe cases, there will be panic attacks, a sense of near-death and so on. Therefore, the increase in anxiety problems deserves everyone's attention.
In terms of individual characteristics, various schools of psychology have explanations and ** for anxiety, such as rumination, cognitive patterns, psychological defenses, and neuropsychological perspectives.
At the same time, from the perspective of group psychology, the reason for such a large number of anxiety disorders is largely related to certain social and contemporary issues. When the train of the times is rolling forward, the future is full of harsh competition and uncertainty, and most of us are stuck in that awkward zone, far less than the above, more than just past the starting line. Anxiety, stress and insomnia have become the norm in life before you know it.
And the information that you are often exposed to is who around you has a who's annual salary, and what is the salary of another person, and who has a salary increase, whose child has gone abroad again, and who has gotten a prestigious university, who has bought a second house, and what kind of car has been changed, and the old classmates who have not seen each other for many years have mixed so well, etc., etc.
So more and more information and contact will lead to self-attack, attacking oneself as useless and undesirable self, and even brushing **, looking at others who don't know are so good, many people will immediately fall into curtain wall psychology and self-attack, this personality state is typical of the formation of long-term competition, that is, afraid that they are at a disadvantage, afraid that they deviate from the expectations of upward mobility. In psychology, anxiety means people.
When the self is in a dangerous situation, and it is difficult to describe this dangerous individual, he does not objectively happen in the moment, but it causes an excessive concern about uncertainty. In general, we are in the midst of such a local anxiety.
In the collision of postmodern and traditional concepts, we still have not found a place to reconcile. The important concepts of family, marriage, and career in traditional thinking have become more and more intense and extreme in the postmodern internationalist society, which has greatly magnified the psychological pressure brought about by such traditional values. Because in psychoanalysis, anxiety is characterized by a sense of uncertainty and helplessness in the face of danger.
When ordinary people can't get enough security and certainty in housing prices, marriage, parenting, etc., they will over-amplify the threat of traditional values and attack us at a deeper level, because the hallmark of postmodern society is aggression, if you can't do it, it means that you can't do it, it means that you have to work harder, so that you encounter failure, encounter unsatisfactory, it means very frequent self-attack.
Violence against oneself, whileNarentewithHan Byung-chulThey all believe that under the meritorious society of post-modernity, the diversity of human beings has disappeared and has become the labor to maintain biological life, how can there be any mass pluralism that postmodernism claimed at the beginning, and the extreme public level is still a one-way labor of involution, and only a very small number of minorities dare to move towards pluralism.
The public society hinders cooperation and communication between subjects, and turns the relationship between performance-seeking individuals into a competitive relationship, whether it is school, employment, workplace, marriage market, or other social competition.
In addition, the collapse of the Soviet Union means the complete end of the stable relations of production in the past, and the re-transformation of the relations of production means that more and more people have to face an unstable state, and the spread of the unstable state will give rise to more involution and anxietyHypericheIn other words, postmodern human beings are passively trapped in a depersonalized life process, and the mind is reduced to a simple computational function
The abundant forms of life have been reduced to the level of labor, as if people only have a one-way value direction of labor as soon as they wake up. However, the pressure pattern of exhaustion and detachment from suppressing morale discussed in the previous issue will make more people fall into the poverty trap, and fall into the trap of getting poorer and poorer the busier, and the poorer and busier the past, the Buddha observed:
People are actually in a world where they are disciplined by power, as if there is a big brother who is watching everyone around every day. In Han Bingzhe's view, in today's post-modern era, this depersonalized digital technology, data monitoring technology and algorithm technology are carrying out new governance, and people have gradually become the transparent governance object under digital technology. Through performance management software, etc., people can obediently involution, that is, they can only exist in the way of burnout of work, not only full-time employees, but even those who are flexibly employed.
Actually, DeleuzeEarlier thanHemizheThis new production relationship is discovered, that is, the main body of labor today is no longer dominated by factory workers as in the past, but a new group of workers. The working class that could still be united in the factory model has become a competitive relationship in the later enterprises, everyone is small and helpless and considers themselves to be workers, the company has also become a performance model and a competition model, and the relationship between people has become an involution relationship, and only by constantly creating new value and constantly working overtime can they keep their precarious position and position.
Therefore, Han Bingzhe pointed out that the tired attacking individual is constantly depleting himself, and in the battle with himself, he is suffering because of himself. As a result, the pressure generated by people's performance competition directly becomes anxiety about their own ability, and then people have to exhaust their time and energy, constantly consuming themselves, and the consumption of the push is anxiety, so fall into a vicious circle that repeats itself. Therefore, it is not even a coincidence that the word "worker" has appeared in recent years. Sure enough, it is a self-deprecating word about how workers become workers.
In fact, what is implicit in this is that, first, more and more helpless and atomized workers, and second, more and more people are self-consuming under anxious trade-offs, hammering themselves.
German sociologists were therefore not allowed to publish the Society of Anxiety three years ago. He also believes that the root cause of an anxious society is the destruction of the system of performance competition and involution under the international community and a principle of equal coexistence, and people often worry that they will become the next target of layoffs and unemploymentPeople's anxiety forces them to develop a pattern that the more anxious they are, the more they consume themselves, making the individual more and more exhausted until they become a severe anxiety disorder。Some scholars have also pointed out that there are five major characteristics of contemporary Chinese youth in their social form:
First, lie flat against power. Lying flat here is not really lying flat and not working, but a kind of passive confrontation and passable work life to oppose social involution, and begin to pay attention to health moderation. Touching the fish began to give up the workplace PUA, and they thought that the salary of a few thousand yuan was worth a few thousand yuan.
2. Aspire to be financially free at the age of 35There are also a large number of young people who are crazy about earning the initiative to make money, with all kinds of main and side businesses, and all new technologies in training courses, but they are not at all for the cake drawn by the boss, but to recognize that they have earned money, and even give up their considerations in other life values, and even delay the intimacy of marriage.
3. Calling for a new economic order, awaken the status of workers, that is, they are very concerned about wages, 996 issues, overtime, 35-year-old danger and lack of holidays, and are very sensitive, from the question of Pinduoduo in the past to the hot search of Fat Donglai today, as well as the pursuit of classic Marneism by young people after zero.
Fourth, be willing to integrate into a strong system.
Many young people have become enthusiastic about taking the exam and getting rid of the anxiety of instability in this way of reverse integration.
5. The survival of stratification, that is, in various Internet games. Entertainment or subcultural coteries form groups to heat up to regulate stress, anxiety, atomization, and burnout in life.
It seems that young people can always face difficulties positively and adjust themselves to society, but in fact it is also a kind of helplessness under widespread anxiety, because if they don't do this, they really have no other way.
And economistsGainstantinThere is also a trend among the unstable proletariat, that is, today's digital economy, digital production methods have given birth to many new production methods, and once contemporary industrial enterprises begin to pursue technological innovation, it will inevitably cause newer production relations, such as a comprehensive reduction of full-time employees, and the choice of more outsourcing employment, there will be more unstable employees, temporary gig workers, such as the recent artificial intelligence, AI chat g BT and other technologies, these tools will become a large-scale reality in the foreseeable future, and more unstable production relations will also cause more anxiety among people.
So, in the foreseeable future, the number of anxious people is likely to increase. As Heinz said in the anxious society, this generation is both snobbish and sensitive, and they have a soft spot for materialistic security and self-development. Because in today's real life, every important decision is an adventure, so people's ego is very eager to avoid the risk of making decisions, and this fear of uncertainty may be the fear of our time, just like everyone in the waiting room of a hospital, people's eyes are glued to the electronic display, waiting for the loudspeaker to come out of the loudspeaker.
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