Marianne Williamson: Why You're So Sad

More and more people, in America and around the world, are reporting that they're depressed, lonely, or friendless. People call it a mental health crisis. What's going on? Why are so many people, especially young people, reporting problems with their mental health? Marianne Williamson, spiritual thinker and author, joins us to explain.

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[johnphillips]

Don’t forget things like hustle culture, celebrity culture, the idolatry of billionaires, and our horrible political culture — modern techno-capitalism truly has alienated the human race unlike anything in our history.

[severdislike]

A mix of suburbia, capital exploitation, vehicle culture, and an incredibly isolating society where connections with people near by is rare. The death of communities has just accelerated this dramatically.

[gregoriochavez]

Hey editors/moderators, for the last 33ish seconds the audio cuts out. You can tell it happened cause the host doesn't finish saying Gravel Institute, minor thing but just worth pointing out. It was a great video and I appreciate the work gone into it by everyone involved.

[samhhhhh]

The media did Marianne dirty. What an amazing human being.

[justinmoreno]

Thats one reason why mutual aid orgs & networks are so important: they build community

[no-bndl]

I just graduated college and I feel I've lost my whole community. It is insane to me adult life is supposed to just carry on without the others I've grown close to and with so few places to meet new people

[Aztrosist]

this video is so good. marianne williamson rocks, great piece.

[MrInternetMan]

Marianne speaks in such a comforting and compelling way. She makes it very easy to follow along and understand.

[marlesimms]

This really resonates. I've identified a lot of clinical depression and anxiety symptoms that correspond with my physical and mental health for the past few years. But I'm also self-aware. It very much feels like depression and anxiety are rational responses to the world we live in

[noahpoobbailey]

This is the best video you have made thus far. Brought me to tears. I and so many others feel this exact same way, yearning for community and connection when society wants the opposite.

[edwinvargas]

Marx, in his work Capital, talks specifically about this phenomenon of alienation. While Marx was talking specifically about the the separation of the product and the worker, it was a precursor to the further alienation we feel to the rest of the world. Nothing feels meaningful because at a societal level, there is nothing we produce that feels like its from us. Our hard work doesn't produce anything that we feel connected to, so our natural creative spirit is crushed. This then spreads to everything else in society, which furthers that alienation. Here we are today. a product of capitalism, predicted by Marx many years ago.

[MintyVoid]

I grew up with older siblings and one working parent, while the other was a stay at home rent. It created a sense of dread from as early as elementary school, as I saw my parents to struggle with bills, clothing, fixing things around the house. I watched my siblings struggle with bullying, student debt, not being able to find a job, etc. I have never felt that I was ever going to succeed in life, and as my own mental health issues got worse and I was diagnosed with GAD and depression. Which dug me even deeper, I knew with these it was going to make it harder for me to succeed, none of the help was really helping. Now just last year I got diagnosed as being Autistic, and that just dashed all my hopes away. I know it's not a bad thing to be autistic, but to find any sort of help to get a hold of my executive dysfunction is money I don't have.

I need a place for myself, for independence but also case I don't like being around people when I work- but there's no way I can afford it on disability. Im going to probably still be at my parents home at 35, probably later, I don't see it changing. None of us can afford to aid each other, and I struggle to gain any footing without support. It's so fucked, I've spent my whole life hating myself and struggling only for it to never end.

[razor]

Everyone is so miserable in their own way, that we begin to think that gives us no right to complain or vent since we’re all struggling. We’re conditioned to view it as an individual problem, and not a national problem.

[neptunecentari]

Ngl, the only reason I'm still breathing is because of my son. He was an absolute surprise, and sometimes I feel guilty AF for bringing him into the world and giving these monsters another cog in their machine, but I love him with every fiber of my being and I refuse to leave him alone to face thus fucked up world by himself.

[KnowingBetter]

Why you gotta bum me out like that? I come here to escape knowing about this.

[sammydotorg]

Marianne Williamson is such a blessing to our society.

[ohms]

Thank you Marianne Williamson and Gravel Institute for this public service announcement.

[benobilitibomboleti]

I can't express how intensely this video seems to strike every fiber of my being. Incredible work!

[FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN]

My mother didnt have parents and I think because of that, didn't see much wrong with the horrible man she married in our early teens, driving us out of the house the moment we finished high school.

We lived in an area where work could never possibly pay enough for an 18-year-old to simply survive, so out of pure necessity, I had a handful of criminal schemes I replied upon to actually earn enough to keep a roof over my head.

Selling drugs, paying other young people who worked in retail to steal a LOT from their jobs, sell to me at low prices, then I re-sold it online.

All I wanted was the bare minimum, a roof over my head, food, clothing. It is insane that that is far too much to expect from full-time employment alone.

Richest country of all time and existing is probably harder here, now than it was when we were living in caves, for people who are forced to pull their own weight.

[freedomstar]

This is why I believe that self enrichment and the enrichment of all the people of the World should be the guiding force of our society. Because all the acquisition of wealth does is erode our Humanity. There is no point in a promotion, or a pay raise if you cannot spend any time with those you care about. What really matters is family and the Human community. Something that capitalism is destroying every day.