Podcasts Culture The Reason For Now Episode 154: What the main killer in the Western World is and what we can do about it. Stress. Soutzos.

Episode 154: What the main killer in the Western World is and what we can do about it. Stress. Soutzos.

Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 4:28 p.m.

b'What is the purpose of eduction? Should private schools be banned? Divorce is the biggest stress in life. Why is marrying later in life likely to last? Even if this is true is it a good thing for society? Children learn to do business deals in the play ground and its called playing. Learning to let their opponent win sometimes. What is the biggest killer in the western world and how do we fix it? It is stress. This is the overwhelming confounding variable in modern psychiatric research. Most of the time people are not clinically depressed, they are feeling depressed and unhappy as they feel out of control of their lives. This explains a recent study that showed an antidepressant was not very good at improving depression but it was better at reducing anxiety.'