TLDR:This video is interesting and i like the presentation. It is insightful and applies to the present context of the current societies mental health environment, especially in the west. Personal notes: It is fascinating watching a lecture and seeing the correlations between the past into the present and realizing that we are not so different from that era. [American] Social media in the past and present (its inception towards today) has repeated a trend in which people, mostly children-teens, shared a certain mental illness which would bond them into small communities based around their niche traits. These I recall seeing depression become a frequent trend whenever a character in entertainment exhibited those emotions, Characters such as Bojack horsemen or tony soprano. A sentiment was shared which created a prominent group of "lonely men". There were such cases in women as well, identifying with characters with characters like jinx, using these examples as "notes" to copy into their own "persona". Occasionally, these cases would result in a cycle where participants stopped identifying with their specific character "hyper fixation" and moved on to their next idol, but there is also the rare cases where they remain obsessed for a very long time. Examples of this include internet personalities such as "chris chan," an "internet lol cow" who identified and fantasized about a fictional video game series, Sonic the hedge hog, for most of his life. This led to many outburst online and result in chris chan "transitioning" into a women and s.a his demented mother. This is the most extreme case document willingly (online youtube channel created by chris chan himself and many public documents concerning his arrest) but it is something to consider when we regard this issue. It is concerning how popular this becomes and should heed as a warning for parents that neglect their children's social health, because isolation is a root cause of this problem.
Release: people who feel unseen or have poor understanding of their own unhappiness findi themselves in an in group. Cultural polairty is identity & self-definition vs bad mental health and delusion
