Stress and Mental Illness

Stress and Mental Illness

John Courtneidge

2:30am Friday 23rd April 2021, Littlehampton

 It occurs to me that it's the people-who-need-people (those of us who are principally extraverts as in Hans Eysenk's Extraversion/Intraversion scale) that are most vulnerable in this Capitalism/Lockdown/Lock-in Confinement 

Vulnerable to mental-distress and -illness, due to loss of contect with, and esteem-approval of, other people: since that's how extraverts get their sense of self-worth.

Now, we know that Increasing Income Inequality increases illness, generally, and mental not-wellness included.

The evidence for this is included in 'The Spirit Level' and its sequel, 'The Inner Level'.

So, we are all on that E/I scale.

I'm 50/50 Extravert/Intravert (or was when I did the test aways back).

So I can tolerate people for only so much of the time.

But Hans Eysenk's E/I definitions regarding individuals' Self Esteem and Wellness suggest, once again, that Capitalism is the problem and that #truesocialism is the answer.

Because Capitalism is #Stress, while #truesocialism is #destress though equality.

Ie, equality lessens #distress.

QED: implementing our living, loving plan for #truesocialism (Co-operative Socialism) is, once again, the answer.

Ps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D. a very nice page: includes QEF and humour (humor: grrr!)