The Next Plague is Psychological
A Toolkit to Survive Mass Psychosis
One of the largest crises in modern culture is how normal mental illness has become. Look anywhere and you can see the failure of the therapeutic industry. The number of therapists and psychologists keeps rising, and over the same years the number of people who are mentally unwell has ballooned right alongside them. The supply went up. So did the problem.
So here is a prediction about the next three to five years, for you, your family, and your friends. After the prediction I want to hand you a few frameworks and tools you can use to build psychological resilience against what is happening around you.
IIn the coming three to five years you will see a rise in people suffering from some form of psychosis, and it will show up across most modern societies. The next plague is not a virus. You can already watch it happen across the world. The crisis I want to name is psychosis, and here is why.
People are struggling financially, yes. That part is not new. For all of human history people have fought to make ends meet, to find food and shelter. What is new is the state of people’s minds. Mental health is falling off a cliff. Depression is climbing. So is anxiety, and anxiety disorders, and the use of SSRIs, and bipolar disorder, and personality disorders, and gender dysphoria. A long list of causes drives this, and we will get to them.
The one thing nobody talks about enough, not in the media and not even in psychology, is the rise of psychosis among younger generations and older ones too. People are losing it more than ever, both figuratively and literally.
So what is psychosis? A lot of you may not actually know. And what is feeding its rise, and what can you do to harden yourself against it? That is what this is about.
Psychosis is a mental state defined by a break from shared, objective reality. You break, mentally and psychologically, from the reality you share with the people around you.
When someone enters psychosis, they start to experience the world in ways the people near them do not, while usually not understanding that the delusion or the hallucination is happening at all. That is the hard part. The person is so convinced that what they experience is real, and that their way of seeing is the true one, that they try to pull other people into it. Anyone who pushes back on how they see things becomes a threat to their psyche.
