Many people who suffer from depression, and those close to them, ask themselves what brought the depression on and whether anything can be done about it. Depression is nobody’s fault, and it has no single cause. Experts agree that it takes several factors coming together to bring on a depression.
Fear is a healthy response to a threatening situation; its origins lie in our natural instinct of self-preservation. But fear that comes for no reason, or obsessive forms of it, can be a symptom of a mental or physical disorder. In some people fear is so pronounced that it lowers their quality of life. Read on to find out what causes fear and how it can be dealt with.
The generational theory was developed by the economist and demographer N. Howe and the historian W. Strauss in 1991 (the Strauss–Howe generational theory). Independently of each other and at the same time (there it is, the universal mind), they analysed the history of the USA from 1584 onwards and derived a theory of the cyclical succession of generations that share the same values and moods.
Collective guilt, or shame, is when responsibility for the actions of a few is shifted onto everyone in that group, family or nation. The simplest version: "it's all the fault of ...". The more sophisticated one: "it's shameful to be German, light-skinned, an anti-vaxxer, Russian, Ukrainian, neutral, ...". Who invented "collective guilt", what psychologists say about it, and how to avoid violence in society — these are the questions we look at in this article.
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