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According to a new study by a team of British and American psychologists, the traditional British stiff upper lip is beginning to enter a new phase of instability.
"As the world around us changes, our diseases change to keep pace with outside circumstances," said team member Daphne Phossick yesterday. "Scientists all over the civilised world, and in the European Community as well, are trying to predict future trends in psychology so that the right pharmaceutical treatments can be developed in time to deal with them."
Such research is especially well funded in the United States, where the major pharmaceutical corporations have recently begun investing in therapeutic talk shows like Whimpfer Osprey's Emotional Exposure in the hope of keeping their fingers on the pulse of America's psyche.
In Britain, statistics are less easy to compile because of the Government's community care approach, whereby patients are encouraged to develop self-empowering strategies for independent living for themselves.
"It's hard to interview people properly about their mental state when they've just been told their benefits are being withdrawn and they have to find a job," admitted Dr Phossick. "But it is beginning to look as if trends in this country are following the same pattern as those in America."
The trend seems to be that, nearly twenty years after anxiety became the new depression, things are changing once more, with self-pity now poised to become the new anxiety.
In the first years of the century, people were afraid for a number of reasons, including terrorism, climate change, and loss of personal security through failure to invest properly in the stock market or in appropriate pension schemes, according to Dr Phossick. These factors led to a "culture of anxiety", deriving from fear and uncertainty about the future.
"Nowadays, the uncertainty has largely been dissipated because many of those people's worst fears have come true," said Dr Phossick. "Terrorism and climate change are both out of control, there are homeless people in their sixties and seventies begging on the streets, and their children and grandchildren can't see any improvements in sight for their own autumn years. The result is a culture of cheerless resignation."
The report contains many grounds for optimism, including the probability that the suicide rate will start declining as those who are unable to cope with life as they find it gradually die out. "In the old days, such people would attempt suicide twice or even several times over a standard career of benefit fraud and service abuse," said Dr Phossick. The virtual abolition of benefits and services will initiate a marked improvement in the statistics, she continued.
Similarly, the fact that the more economically advantaged will be looking for chemical palliatives to the culture of cheerless resignation which has replaced the culture of anxiety will be good news for the economy, says the report.
According to a new study by a team of British and American psychologists, the traditional British stiff upper lip is beginning to enter a new phase of instability.
"As the world around us changes, our diseases change to keep pace with outside circumstances," said team member Daphne Phossick yesterday. "Scientists all over the civilised world, and in the European Community as well, are trying to predict future trends in psychology so that the right pharmaceutical treatments can be developed in time to deal with them."
Such research is especially well funded in the United States, where the major pharmaceutical corporations have recently begun investing in therapeutic talk shows like Whimpfer Osprey's Emotional Exposure in the hope of keeping their fingers on the pulse of America's psyche.
In Britain, statistics are less easy to compile because of the Government's community care approach, whereby patients are encouraged to develop self-empowering strategies for independent living for themselves.
"It's hard to interview people properly about their mental state when they've just been told their benefits are being withdrawn and they have to find a job," admitted Dr Phossick. "But it is beginning to look as if trends in this country are following the same pattern as those in America."
The trend seems to be that, nearly twenty years after anxiety became the new depression, things are changing once more, with self-pity now poised to become the new anxiety.
In the first years of the century, people were afraid for a number of reasons, including terrorism, climate change, and loss of personal security through failure to invest properly in the stock market or in appropriate pension schemes, according to Dr Phossick. These factors led to a "culture of anxiety", deriving from fear and uncertainty about the future.
"Nowadays, the uncertainty has largely been dissipated because many of those people's worst fears have come true," said Dr Phossick. "Terrorism and climate change are both out of control, there are homeless people in their sixties and seventies begging on the streets, and their children and grandchildren can't see any improvements in sight for their own autumn years. The result is a culture of cheerless resignation."
The report contains many grounds for optimism, including the probability that the suicide rate will start declining as those who are unable to cope with life as they find it gradually die out. "In the old days, such people would attempt suicide twice or even several times over a standard career of benefit fraud and service abuse," said Dr Phossick. The virtual abolition of benefits and services will initiate a marked improvement in the statistics, she continued.
Similarly, the fact that the more economically advantaged will be looking for chemical palliatives to the culture of cheerless resignation which has replaced the culture of anxiety will be good news for the economy, says the report.
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