Conversations like this are not going away anytime soon.

This piece of news.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/article-former-nhl-enforcer-chris-simon-dead-at-age-52/

And then this piece of news.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/sport/konstantin-koltsov-ice-hockey-death-spt-intl/index.html

Conversations about mental health are not going away any time soon....in fact there are going to be more and more headlines, more and more terrible stories of loss due to mental health issues in the future. 

There are going to be politicians, newspapers, social media companies and adversaries trying to diagnose people who do bad things as having a mental health issues.

There are going to be more polarizing posts, and stories around the world hoping you'll pick a side. The side that sits facing opposite someone with a mental health issue. 

The speed that society is changing at is too fast for us.

Our ability to catch up to and fully understand the vast impact technology, social media, past traumas, educational systems, headline hunting politicians, the divide between religions, and borders etc. is a D minus at best. 

Technology wants us to rapidly make monumental changes to our ways of feeling, thinking and behaving. We cannot change at that requested speed. It is too much. COVID. Too much. Wars. Too much. Democracy versus Demagoguery. Too much. 

Until the focus is back on interpersonal skills, communicating in person with your peers, and community, experiencing life away from your phone and in real time: we cannot psychologically catch up to technology. Our emotional life and intelligence will short circuit many times over. 

It doesn't have to be like this.