More than 1 in 3 Europeans suffers from mental disorder

14 % kampt met angstaanvallen, 7 % chronische slapeloos, 6,9 % chronisch depressief

38 % of the European population is dealing with a mental disorder - concluded from a large, 3 year long study of the European college of neuropsychopharmacology.

It are psychological problems such as chronical depression, panic attacks and chronic insomnia, and neurological disfunctions such as dimentia and Parkinsons.
The strangest thing is the fast increase in these conditions with woman, and that they manifest on a much younger age then usually.

Panic attacks and related disorders such as paranoia are on top of the list. 14 % of Europeans are dealing with it. 7 % is suffering from chronical insomnia. 6.9 % is chronicly depressed. 5.4 is suffering from dimentia.

According tot the ones that did the study, there are barely any differences between the countries. There is however a significant difference between males and females. With females, depressions have risen very rapidly the last 40 years, especially in the age group 16-24 years old according to Wittchen.
Females and teenagers
They link it to the change in role patterns for woman in society. What is disturbing to Wittchen and his collegue's is that the panic attacks and related illnesses are manifesting on younger ages. 90 % of the people that suffers from them, first has it in their teenage years, while in the 1970's it was people in their 20's.
30% seeks professional help.
Between 8 and 16 % go further and looks for help from specialists.

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/962/Gezondheid/article/detail/1314226/2011/09/05/Meer-dan-1-op-3-Europeanen-lijdt-aan-mentale-ziekte.dhtml

This does not surprise me at all. We all have to maintain this profit driven system that creates separation and friction between people. We have to work our ass off and perform to pay the bills and to create all the crap that capitalism requires in order to sell enough to make profit. It requires a huge working force and huge consumption and production. MUCH of which is totally unnecessary and damaging to our planet and many human beings and other living beings.
Not only that, it also deliberately creates this friction and abuse. For example making profit on people's insecurity. Look at the beauty industry: it feeds your insecurity. The more you believe a product/clothing/make up/gadget will make you BETTER, PRETTIER, SEXIER, MORE LOVED etc... the more you will go and buy it. Celebrities are used as eye catchers, for the people to follow and want to be just like them- because they are presented as people who are loved, and great, awesome, famous etc... They get money to market diets. They talk about it in magazines and interviews and woman go and buy those diet products or whatever is required. Or they launch make up and clothing lines, which all the fans just have to get a piece off.

If your BMI is to high, you’re not good enough - If you don’t have a waistline, you gotta feel insecure - if you don’t have the right clothing, what is everyone going to think? - if you don’t got a toned or peachy ass , oh no you feel like shit. - If you lashes are not dark enough, go and buy that mascara!

And on top of that, people start to judge each other as they judge themselves. Creating more separation, and often depressions in result. Because it are all those things added up, that create these balls of energy within you. Or the lack of energy because you can’t feed yourself with positive attention, or because you drain your own energy by participating in thoughts of inferiority, of not being good or pretty or rich enough.

Money plays a huge deal in mental illnesses, MUCH more than we know.
And it is very obvious if you connect the dots for yourself.

If I look at this world, how profit and shallowness drives all. How people get pushed into believes and then judge others for different believes, of how everyone has to be placed into a box to be branded, how many people have to struggle to get buy sometimes taking care of the household + doing 2 jobs. The high demands, that we allow within ourselves towards ourselves, that we accept from the system and project onto others and this world as slaves.
It's not surprising at all.

The increase may simply as well be because of the different "standards" to label something as a disorder much easier and faster. So that the selling of medicine or requirement for specialist may get up. Like with ADHD and ADD and shit, often for children which are completely fine! But get this label and then have to go on pills. That is how fucked up it is.
You got depression? Just pop this pill and you'll feel better.
Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAoRmrqvr4s

Woman were not as much involved in the workforce as they are today. For many years woman were in an inferior role and man has to "lead". Maybe they were too afraid of women’s power ;) haha.
It was fed by religious writings passed on by religious institutions to justify women’s role as inferior beings to man.
Now woman are becoming more equal to man, their role in society and working environment. They also get the stress, the high demands, more work combined with household tasks. Some man are still stuck in the old role pattern of "woman has to do household, man work". Both of them might go working, but the woman is still on her own doing the household and taking care of the kids. I personally know a couple of examples of this. Which is quite shocking. Caring about another, means to snap out of these roles and do your own thinking and consider the one you are living with as an equal to yourself. Each carrying a load of the "burden".

With the rise of the media, especially the consumption media! - the rise of depressions and panic attacks for example must have gone up as well. Bombarded with these messages and commercial slogans. Buy this, buy that, you need this, you need that. Added with all the bad news in this world.
I am not against showing what is happening in our world, I do this myself. But the problem is that newspapers do not add a solution. It is also based on profit. Without profit = RIP newspaper. So this should tell you a lot...

Newspapers are competitors as well.
So you see all the bad shit, all the shit from certain groups of people, but not really the cause and solution. For example: sometimes they write a lot about "immigrants", which the ignorant population blindly accepts without ANY further investigation and goes off into stigmatizing entire groups of people. Immigrants are suddenly bad and have to be repelled. No one looks at why there are so many immigrants, why people become as they are, what can stop this from being re-created. The media is very powerful in creating these stigma's and friction between people and groups of people. Because the population is simply not educated a lot. Even with years and years of studying, people are sometimes still so ignorant to not even investigate or think for themselves.

Is it not about time that we see this system is at it's end? How much more abuse and self-abuse are we willing to put up with?

Haven’t we exploited the earth and other living beings enough already?

Bear bile extraction in Vietnam

London Riots and The Greed of Good People

London is burning

For the third day in a row there have been riots all over London. The violence is now spreading to others British cities such as Birmingham and Liverpool.
The troublemakers are exchanging information with each other through Twitter and other social network sites.
16.000 cops are trying to restore order and end the violence.
They say it started saturday as a protest against the incident in Tottenham where the police killed Mark Duggan. But the violence that is now occuring, has absolutely nothing to do with it.
The rioters see it as an opportunity to smash and steal whatever they like, to revolt and cause trouble and create chaos. Many of them rob entire stores empty and even take their time to try out different kinds of shoes.

The prisons are overpopulated already, and those arrested were not older than 20 years.

Messages on mobile phones and the internet call the oungster to arm themselves with hammers and come with big cars to carry the stolen goods. "wherever you come from, steal everything. The police cant stop it", is one of the messages. Another is : "if you see the police, shoot!".

But really, does this suprise me? No. It suprises me no more than starving people suprise me.
We have a system that feeds of insecurity, that creates poverty and abuse, that creates seperation and raises children to become good consumerists which feels get manipulated to fit into the capitalist agenda. Money and profit is on nr 1, above all the rest.
So it does not suprise me that people do these things, disregarding life, violence, placing themselves above others, egoism, fighting... THE SYSTEM DOES THIS DAY IN DAY OUT.

When are we going to see this? God, its crazy we dont see this! It is all so obvious in our face, especially today in this time with all the pictures and media. People see starving people, abused animals, and after some minutes go on with their lives in the system that creates this situation in the first place.

These riots is the effect of our system that treats life as a vehicle for egoism and abuse. And then you have these things as effect. It is like a cancer that spreads through the entire body, damaging 1 organ at a time until your dead.
It's easy for everyone to point at the rioters and say how evil they are, but really we should all take a damn good look in the mirror. We, the ones supporting a system of abuse, who gossip about our neighbour, who are jealous at others and manipulate because of it, who desire to be more special, think nasty shit about another person, who buy products tested on defenceless animals, who throw our garbage in the open and in the oceans where it pollutes, damages and kills other living beings, who see ourselves as superior to other life forms, who defend a system that creates starvation, who defends a system that creates manipulative commercials to feed on peoples insecurity, who use others to our own advantage because of our "feelings" etc... so much ... too much.

There has been news that the riots are started because of the gab between the rich and poor is increasing in England, that things are getting worse and worse for a large group of people.

And you can continue to not give a shit, thats how your brought up, not really caring about life but only about your own privat bubble and feelings. Ever considered to not follow your feelings but instead direct yourself?

These riots are no solution, I agree. There is not an alternative or solution provided.
And if we dont stop, and create an alternative, then this stuff will simply keep on happening. You reap what you sow. Our system faces it's creation. Since we are the system, we face our creation.
Those houses on fire could have been your houses, losing your children like the starving people have to face since years and years.

The problem is that we follow our programmed mind, our mind wired by our specific culture, our parents, our upbringing, surroundings and what we have been exposed to. It moves you, instead of you moving yourself. When you realise how it moves you, you can start to take control back over who you are.

Pics from: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/08/london_riots.html

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I want to add a blogpost from one of my friends Joana:
http://joanaslifeprocess.blogspot.com/2011/08/root-of-riots.html

Do we really think that everything was alright before the protests?

Do we believe in the apparent illusion that people were happy in silence?

This is an accumulation effect. What goes inside is now projected to the outside...

Unfortunately we are not educated to understand how we work (our mind and our body).

Do we know where our thoughts come from?

Do we know why do we react in certain ways?

Also, we are not educated to understand where the money comes from?

Why is there poverty?

Why some have and others don't?

Why is Life on earth about paying bills and surviving, when all we want is to enjoy ourselves with fellow human beings, family and friends?

These manifestations of anger are the consequence of such accumulation of anger within each one of us. Everyone is tired of this system. Everyone is tired of survival, consciously or subconsciously.

The way to see what's really going on is putting yourself in other people's shoes. What do you see? Lack of comfort, lack of housing conditions, lack of a stable income, lack of security, lack of respect, lack of opportunities and lack of equality. Politics should be about giving, not taking. The "taking bit" comes with the economic system...

The solution is not separation. It never was and it won't be. Because we are simply fighting with ourselves, whether is a police officer or someone else - The human race against self! There is a fight within each one that must be forgiven, self-forgiven. We will have to come to a point of deciding how we want to live on this planet and what do we want to create as our reality. Each one is creating already but we need to change the direction. It can't be destruction, definitely. We are to BEcome the living example of Life. That is self-empowerment, knowing that what you do is the best for yourself and for all.

How we want to be treated is how we must treat others.

People are angry because we have existed in this survival system for too long. Enough is enough. The biggest violence exists in silence, within. And it is each one's responsibility to stop so that we can build something together.

The other silence is the corruption of the system - that which we don't see but we feel it in our daily life.

The problem we know it already because it has been the same since ever. That is why I find amazing these new creative SOLUTIONS towards equality and self-honesty

lack of money stops severely burned boys treatment

De behandeling van de zwaarverbrande Zhang Junhua (12) wordt stopgezet. Zijn ouders hebben immers geen geld meer om de hoge ziekhuisfactuur te betalen.

This boy was put on fire by a mentally ill person 3 years ago. While he was sleeping, the man came into his room, poured gasoline over the boy and set him on fire. His father was woken up at 2 am by the horrifying screams of pain. They had to pour 10 buckets of water on him before the fire was out.

 

He barely survived. The next 6 months Junhua fought for his life. In that period he got  16 heavy surgeries. The fire glued his chest and chin to each other. His arms were melted on his chest and his legs were totally twisted. He is also unable to close his eyes.

During the first 6 months after the event, his parents payed about 55.000 euro on hospital bills. All their savings went to the boys treatment. The remaining money they could lend from their friends. But now the money is out and the hospital refuses to treat the boy any longer.

His parents are desperate.

 

This is what happens in a system that does not give a shit about life, and which revolves around money and profit. When you have money, your in heaven. You can have all the food you want,  and all the clothing and items you want, warm house, docters, dentists etc... But when you dont have money, you are in hell. You starve, you suffer and have no voice.

It is about time we recognize what is happening around us, which system we are contributing to each day. It is time to open our eyes and see the true nature of our system.
This is exactly what we want to stop with the Equal money system. We want everyone to be treated as an equal, equal in worth. All living beings have a beating heart, every part of existence is part of life in their own expression. It is fucked up that children are suffering because of having no money, that people are starving to death and the majority struggles to survive. We can have another world, another system, that takes care of all. We have to learn to care again, to want to do something for another without thinking about how much it will earn you, without thinking about "what's in it for me". Fuck that shit. Is anyone getting any happier? No. In fact, depression are rising. More people are getting to the poor side instead of the rich.
But the rich know that all the people of the world cant live like them. We don't have enough trees, enough powerplants, enough resources for the entire world population to live like them. Exploiting life, taking much more than you need. Polluting and not giving a shit. Imagine the entire population living like that... Damn.
Thats why the elite knows only a small group can live like that, the rest has to consume and produce for them. Having enough working sheep to provide for all the products, many useless products, that people are made to desire through commercials and socialisation. Products that are not the highest quality, so they brake down fast and people have to replace it soon, spend money, more production that way etc... To keep the profit flowing in. Because where else is the profit going to come from?

Oh crazy fucked up world...
What the hell are we doing.

Animal friendLIE

You may be one of those people who try to do their best to live a good life, to be a good person, to buy fairtrade and animal friendly products. But if one day you find out that your "animal friendly" products are not friendly at all... would you care? I mean really care, not just say "ooo nooo thats horrible", but wanting to actually start working on a change to stop this continuous abuse?

There have been new revelations from the meat industry. Secret footage was shot from 26 Dutch pig farms, showing sick, crippled and dead pigs.

Some of that footage comes from stables who got branded "animal friendly". And this is exposed now, but think about the hundreds of unrevealed cases all over the world with all kinds of products where a form of abuse is allowed to create those products. In this case, it are not products though, it are living beings like you and I.

Despite  the brands and initiatives from the last couple of years to improve the situation in the meat industry, there is no animal friendly meat yet.  Some people really don't care and say that it tastes nice, as the main argument. But what if you mother tasted nice on a bbq, does that mean people should eat her?

Animals are living beings, who live just as much as you do, who breath and eat and are part of this world. It doesn't mean that because they live in another form, that therefor they are inferior. We have a habbit of placing ourselves as superior and backing this up by our own reasons. Like the nazi's did with their reasons why the jews had to die. Or with the apartheid regime in South Africa. People make up all kinds of reasons to be able to place themselves on top and abuse others.

And none of this abuse will end, as long as this system keeps creating humans able to do such abuse, which programs human beings to follow their ego, their desires, to buy what the coorporations want them to buy, to be what the system wants them to be. And as long as the nr 1 goal of this system is money/profit, things wont get better. Things will change but there will always be abuse. Yet it doesn't have to be this way! We at Equal Money are working on the change together, and anyone can be part of it. It is easy to sit on our lazy asses and think about the world just "being the way it is supposed to be". Therefor you gotta start using your brains and look around you, within you, and in this world. Things are not just the way they are by random chance. There are reasons behind it. And the effects are clear as well.

If you want to end animal cruelty, you will have to stop the very system which creates the inferior/superior judgements. Else we will keep spinning around, forever feeling bad for the abuse, while it never ends. Donating and donating, while it keeps being created at the same time. A never ending circle.

A bigger holocaust than Hitlers

When I heard about the holocaust for the first time, it was insane to realise this had actually happened. I couldn't believe anyone would do that to other human beings. Killing and abusing so many beings, while the public turned a blind eye. And I never considered that such a thing could happen again.
But after some years I realized ... this has been happening al along! The entire time!

It shocked me that we do not even see this, we do not see what is around is as if we are wearing a blindfold all day long. Maybe we are to busy living inside of our minds and being pre-occupied with survival to really realise what kind of system we are living in. I was also amazed that I hadn't seen this and that they never taught this to us in school. But then again, school is a government institution. It will never do anything that may compromise the status quo, unless you have some teachers going against the grain here and there.
Also there was nothing about it in the news. No, it was "disguised", loose ends, in bits and pieces. To make it seem like there was no connection , like it are the "everyday normal things" that are simply part of life. But I realised after a while that media, is a profit driven industry. Profit sets the tone of the news, money is more important than life. Thus that says enough about the news quality dont you think.
Who are then the real criminals in this world? The ones who activly destroy, corrupt, manipulate, deceive, abuse etc... or the ones standing by, blindfolded, not doing anything and following in line? I see it as a circle where we are all responsible. It is not because you believe yourself to be less responsible, that you in fact are. Because you are not, even though it is very easy to believe that because it gives you an excuse why not to do anything about it.

The profit driven system, the money war, kills more people than Hitler ever could.
How amazing that we have been blind for this, just like the german population seemed blind. People are slowly but surely WAKING THE FUCK UP.

Our media would idealy provide us with useful and true information that creates and promotes a healthy true democracy. But as we can see, it doesn't because it exists to generate profit. And the few independant media sources, are kept unknown and unseen because they dont drive on profit. It is like: the bigger and the more competitive and abusive you are, the more popular and rich you get.
The commercial media generally makes their money from advertising, the advertiseren pay to place their ads in publications that reach big number of people, and especially those with the most money. In effect, the media creates shows,articles,news etc... that attract the biggest and wealthiest audience. It is to generate the money for the advertisers.

Often controversial issues are ignored to keep advertisers and corporations happy. Entire segments of our population are ignored or misrepresented, because they are simply not a target market for advertisers.
TV networkers rely on superficial, gossip provoking, violent or sexually explicit programming to get the most attention, the most viewers, and get the highest rating.

News becomes like any other source of profit. Where costs have to be cut and the quality reduces in order to gain more profit.

“If anyone said we were in the radio business, it wouldn’t be someone from our company. We’re not in the business of providing news and information. We’re not in the business of providing well-researched music. We’re simply in the business of selling our customers products.”

 Lowry Mays, CEO of radio giant Clear Channel Communications

If you haven't been able to figure out the holocaust connection for yourself yet, I will give a few hints:
-Every year 15 million children die of hunger.
-Slaughter of farmed animals for food increased to more than 50 BILLION individuals in 2003 (and by now it is probably higher)
-Millions die each years from wars faught because of money

The holocaust is not over people, it has never been. The holocaust has simply been used as an example of evil, while evil is still being allowed and continues every day. To deny the holocaust is a crime in many countries, which you can go to jail for, but we can remain blind to the every day reality of the abuse and suffering all over the world because of the system that we allow to exist? That places profit over life? Why does no one goes to jail for that?
BECAUSE THE SYSTEM DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT.
The following is the full text of the speech delivered by Cuban President Fidel Castro at the Palace of Nations in Geneva on the occasion of the presentation to him of the Health for All Medal by the World Health Organization, Thursday, May 14, 1998.

Your excellencies, officials of the WHO, distinguished delegates.

All praise to the World Health Organization, which together with UNICEF, has helped to save the lives of hundreds of millions of children and millions of mothers, which has relieved the suffering and saved the lives of many more millions of human beings.

These two institutions -- together with the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Food Program, the United Nations Population Fund, UNESCO, and other organizations so bitterly opposed by those who would like to erase from the face of the earth the noble ideas which inspired the creation of the United Nations - - have made a decisive contribution to the establishment of a universal awareness of the serious problems of the world today and the great challenges which we have before us.

According to the calculations of renowned economists, the world economy grew six-fold and the production of wealth and services grew from less than five trillion to more than twenty-nine trillion dollars between 1950 and 1997. Why then is it still the case that each year, 12 million children under five years of age die -- that is to say 33,000 per day -- of whom the overwhelming majority could be saved?

Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet -- 53 years after the creation of the United Nations.

The children who die and could be saved are almost 100% poor and of those who survive, we must ask why 500,000 are left blind every year for lack of a simple vitamin which costs less than a pack of cigarettes per year?

Why are 200 million children under five years of age undernourished?
Why are there 250 million children and adolescents working? Why do 110 million not attend primary school and 275 million fail to attend secondary school?

Why do two million girls become prostitutes each year?

Why in this world -- which already produces almost 30 trillion dollars worth of goods and services per year -- do one billion 300 million human beings live in absolute poverty, receiving less than a dollar a day -- when there are those who receive more than a million dollars a day?

Why do 800 million lack the most basic health services?

How much is a human life worth? It is really sad to think that just in the area of maternal and post-natal services, in spite of the efforts of the WHO and UNICEF over the last 50 years, the number of deaths from lack of medical services has been 600 million children and 25 million mothers who could have survived. That would have required a more rational and more just world.

In that same post-war period, in the area of military expenditure, 30 trillion dollars were spent. According to UN estimates, the cost of providing universal access to basic health care services would be 25 billion dollars per year -- just three percent of the 800 billion dollars which are currently devoted to military expenditure -- and this after the end of the Cold War.

There is no let up in arms sales, which have the sole purpose of killing, while the medicines which should be provided to save lives become increasingly expensive. The market in medicines in 1995 reached 280 billion dollars. The developed countries, with 14.6% of the world's population -- 824 million inhabitants -- consume 82% of the medicines. The rest of the world -- 4 billion 815 million people -- consume only 18%.

Who can save our species? The blind, uncontrollable law of the market? 

Lets change this!
http://www.equalmoney.org/
Investigate for yourself, open your eyes, see the system your part of. Because seeing it, realising it, is the first step in order to stop it.





Note:There are less blogs these days because I am busy doing exams.

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