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Thu 7 Jan, 2016 02:44 am
Context:
According to a 2009 article in the British medical journal The Lancet, as many as 17.5 percent of China’s adult population may suffer from some kind of mental illness. Yet mental health remains a vexing, and in some cases taboo, topic in China. The trauma and reversals of recent decades, from the Cultural Revolution to the current all-consuming drive for wealth, from shifting family structures to the migration of millions of people each year from villages to cities to find work, all have put invisible strains on the people living through these vast changes. Some recent headlines from the past year indicate that untreated mental illness may be becoming a more acute problem in China: a series of grisly attacks by middle-age men on school children, some of them deadly, caused a great public panic. The suicides of several young workers at a factory in southern China assembling iPhones likewise raised questions about where migrants (most workers are living far from home) can turn to for emotional support in difficult times.
@oristarA,
It's a drive that is so intense and widespread that it overshadows all other concerns.
@oristarA,
It "consumes" all your energy and attention, eh? There aint nuthin else left.