Full Video: Instagram fame, and anxiety pills || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Calcutta (2022)
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00:00Mental health today is a bigger problem than any other disease of the body.
00:05Obviously not without reason.
00:06Obviously then you have to get into and inquire everything that affects the mind.
00:12Because the mind cannot just get sick on its own.
00:15Surely there are influences, surely there are conditions that are pushing it into sickness.
00:20And if you start inquiring into those conditions, the entire world order will come crashing down.
00:25You will have to question our economics, our education,
00:28our social institutions, our politics, everything.
00:31We live in make-believe worlds, we live in bubbles.
00:34Within those bubbles, there is a degree of comfort, security, etc.
00:37But those bubbles can be punctured anytime.
00:39It's just that in this limited phase in which we are living,
00:44the bubbles are not being punctured very regularly.
00:47Yet life keeps testing us in small ways and facts have a way of showing up.
00:54When facts show up, then our concepts and imaginations are badly hurt, sometimes shattered.