My understanding is that there's been a big rise in mental illness, anxiety and stress in general, over the last 10 yeats or so. And its true across professions

My understanding is that there's been a big rise in mental illness, anxiety and stress in general, over the last 10 yeats or so. And its true across professions, ages, race, gender or sexuality. A lot of factors pushing for it: 1. the general madness and chaos of the Trump presidency ("When I wake up in the morning will I learn Trump has launched nukes at North Korea? Or vice versa?" etc etc, ad nauseum for 4 years) 2. COVID lockdowns and economic swings 3. apparent explosive rise in gun mass shootings -- "Will I or my loved ones be next?" 4. social media's toxic effect on peace of mind, in general 5. active efforts by various actors to spread lies, sow tensions and trigger violence (eg. stochastic terrorism) 6. carbon climate crisis... a biggie Therefore I've been building a sci-fi post-apoc, educational game lately [SB: see below] which happens to take as its premises that: 7. humanity (or at least the US) fails to save democracy 8. humanity fails to act boldly enough or fast enough to save us from the worst of climate change's most dystopic effects 9. and therefore, due to all of above, there's a yet further MASSIVE rise in mental health disorders (all the way up to full blown de facto "insanity") -- eg. like many of the survivors you see in the Mad Max films From a purely entertainment standpoint I loved watching films like Idiocracy and Mad Max Fury Road. As a person in the real world and a patriotic citizen I don't want to see us descend to that level of insanity, struggle and suffering. Our existing mental health systems are already inadequate today. If we start losing more doctors, nurses & therapists to anxiety/depression or over-work fatigue (speaking in broad terms), and also scientists, engineers, teachers, etc, then it will get MUCH worse. ---- [SB] - https://synystrongames.itch.io/slartboz https://synystrongames.itch.io/slartboz