hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Depression upswing in younger women
A new Women's Health Australia study suggests women aged 28 to 33 are in poorer mental health than their mothers or grandmothers, with almost one in five reporting a diagnosis of depression by a doctor, The Australian reports.
They reported higher rates of depression (18 per cent) than women aged 53 to 58 (13 per cent) and those aged 79 to 84 (10 per cent).
Study co-author Julie Byles from the University of Newcastle said the data understated the problem, given that 60 per cent of young women with depression were not on antidepressants. "It's only the tip of the iceberg," she said.
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Why are younger women reporting higher rates of official depression diagnosis compared with older generations? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that depression used to be a taboo topic in society, not something you were inclined to talk about with strangers leading to a situation in which older women do not report depression to their doctors or people conducting these sorts of studies.
Perhaps, however, it has something to do with the contemporary Australian culture that has shaped the values and aspirations of women aged 28 to 33, in contrast to those epochs of Australian culture that women now aged 52 to 58 and also 79 to 84 formed their lives within when they were younger.
This is not to put forth the nostalgic proposition that everything modern is evil and everything old was good, but rather that certain values and aspirations that have moved to the forefront of what our society promotes are often less than fulfilling: materialism and the associated empty cultivation of need that stems from always feeling like something is missing, individualism and the decline in the communitarian or collective aspects of daily life, and perhaps also the self-centred attitude towards relationships which portrays happiness coming from one night stands and casual sex.
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