It is a highly regimented society (I don’t think anyone will argue over that factor). For an American to move in and get situated....I would suggest around 5,000 ‘rules’ have to be memorized and remembered on a daily basis to survive.
But I have doubts that this is the key item for the mental illness chatter. About a decade ago, some Scottish foundation did a study and concluded that around twenty-percent of adults had some element of paranoid schizophrenia (some more than others). Toss on the factor of stress, which half of the German adult population talks about weekly now, and how their summer vacation is the only opportunity to recharge and recover from all the stress in their lives.
“About a decade ago, some Scottish foundation did a study and concluded that around twenty-percent of adults had some element of paranoid schizophrenia (some more than others).”
The Soviets would send dissidents and other ‘complainers’ to mental institutions because they had created the ‘perfect society’, so anyone complaining had some kind of mental issue.
One has to wonder how we’re viewed by that ‘profession’. After all, most people here believed that Trump did not ‘collude’ with Russia in 2016, when it was obvious to anyone with a brain that he did collude...at least until the Mueller report came out, that was. Likewise, we here complain about some ‘deep state’ trying to undercut Trump, when all of that has been debunked (at least until Dec. 9).
Being ‘mentally ill’ is what the leaders of society say it is, and that doesn’t always mean they’re NOT the ones who are ill. I’m sure in Nazi Germany being against the holocaust was considered some form of mental illness - after all, how could anyone be against punishing the Jews, after what they (supposedly) had done to the German people?