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Do you LOVE yourself?

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Hillel Eisenberg

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We are currently living in the most self-curated, self-loved, self-absorbed, and self-obsessed generation in all of human history. You walk into a bookstore and the largest section is the self-help section. You have hashtags on Instagram, #glowup, love yourself, look at yourself, you are the mountain, #itsallaboutyou, #youonlyliveonce. Billions of views. You have influencers where their entire career is morning routines, and ice baths, and loving yourself. We are living in a time where the beauty industry is worth hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. More people today are getting plastic surgery than ever in all of human history. We are obsessed with ourselves. So, you would think that in such a society where we are so into caring for ourselves, that we would all be running around so loved. We would feel so cared for and emotionally stable, right? Well, the statistics do not seem to bear that out. Suicide rates in the United States have risen by roughly 37% since the year 2000. About one in four Americans are diagnosed with depression. Antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed medications in the country. Roughly one in five adults experience anxiety every year. Roughly one in six adults experience a major depressive episode at some point in any given year. Among young people, anxiety levels have been the highest they've ever been in all of recorded history. Emergency room visits for self-harm amongst teenagers more than doubled in the past decade. So, my obvious question to you is if we are so massively obsessed with ourselves, and loving ourselves, and caring for ourselves, what isn't working? Why in the world is it failing so drastically?