Possibly stating the obvious, Joshua Claybourn reports: “People who keep up with current events are less depressed than those who avoid it. ‘The happiest people are those who take an interest in the world and participate in their community”
Indeed, believe it or not the events of 9/11 leading as it did to a greater sense of belonging for Anglosaxons apparently led to a REDUCTION in the number of suicides for a month.
The trouble with our society these days is that that sense of community is being destroyed more and more. I wonder if there was more of a permanent sense of community caused by 911 in the USA than here in the UK where things gradually, no ever so slowly returned almost to normality.
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