Many people’s anxiety, expresses genuine concerns, but if those are caused by society, and society denies that need to change, then that individual will be blamed, for wanting change, and not accepting the norm.
Defence strategies are often a form of maladaptive coping response, aimed at pushing a childhood self-blame onto others.
Collective fear often shapes what a society is willing to see, name, and change, and that fear can quietly produce toxic “normal” ways of living.
Social structures are the “big patterns” in a society that shape how people live, relate, and organise themselves.
Being human is messy, beautiful, painful, confusing, and deeply meaningful, and all at the same time. It means having a body that gets tired and breaks, a mind that thinks and worries, and a heart that feels joy, fear, love, shame, and everything in between