🧠 The Mental Health Crisis No One Wants to Talk About: How Society Lost Its Grip on Reality

By: Trevor Vogel (4:17 pm, 3/14/2025)

🚨 A World Losing Its Grip on Reality

Something is deeply wrong in society.

It’s no longer just about left vs. right, rich vs. poor, or progress vs. tradition. It’s something far worse.

Conversations turn to battles within seconds.
Friends disown each other over political disagreements.
Words are now ‘violence,’ but actual violence is ‘activism.’
Every issue is framed as an apocalyptic war between good and evil.

This isn’t just division. It isn’t just polarization.

This is mass psychosis.

And the worst part?

No one is allowed to say it out loud.

Why?

Because the second you point it out, you’re the enemy.

But we can’t afford to stay silent anymore.

Because this only gets worse.

🧩 The Mental Health Epidemic: It’s Not Just in Hospitals

We already know mental illness is skyrocketing.

📉 More than 1 in 5 U.S. adults now experience mental illness.
📉 Teen depression has doubled in the last decade.
📉 Mass medication usage (SSRIs, ADHD meds, and opioids) is at crisis levels.
📉 Suicide rates have hit record highs.

These numbers alone are terrifying.

But what happens when entire movements, institutions, and ideologies start behaving like mentally unstable individuals?

Because that’s exactly what’s happening.

It’s not just about individual suffering anymore.

It’s about a society losing its grip on reality.

⚠️ The Mental Breakdown of Ideological Extremes

Both the radical left and radical right are experiencing severe psychological detachment from reality.

Let’s break it down.

🔴 The Madness of the Radical Left

Once upon a time, liberalism stood for free speech, equality, and fairness.

Now? It has mutated into something unrecognizable.

1️⃣ Delusional Identity Politics – Biology is now offensive. Men can get pregnant. Reality is a social construct. If you disagree, you’re a bigot.
2️⃣ Victimhood as a Personality – The more oppressed you are, the more power you have. If you don’t have oppression, invent some.
3️⃣ The ‘Invisible Enemy’ Paranoia – Everyone is a Nazi, fascist, or white supremacist—until proven otherwise.
4️⃣ Cultural Suicide – Defund the police, abolish prisons, release violent criminals. The law-abiding citizens? Demonized.
5️⃣ Destroy at All Costs – If someone doesn’t agree 100%, they must be canceled, bankrupted, or ruined.

This isn’t progress.

This isn’t social justice.

This is mass hysteria.

🔵 The Madness of the Radical Right

Meanwhile, the far-right has spiraled into its own brand of insanity.

1️⃣ Doomsday Paranoia – Everything is a conspiracy. The world is one second away from collapse.
2️⃣ Trump as a Messiah – Donald Trump isn’t just a politician—he’s a prophet, a savior, the chosen one.
3️⃣ Everyone is a Traitor – If someone doesn’t support Trump 100%, they’re a deep-state operative.
4️⃣ Anti-Science Extremism – Climate change, vaccines, evolution—everything is fake news, unless it’s a Facebook meme.
5️⃣ Civil War Fantasies – Many genuinely believe the only way forward is violence, secession, and ‘taking back the country by force.’

This isn’t conservatism.

This isn’t patriotism.

This is delusion.

🤯 How Did We Get Here?

The real question isn’t why this happened—it’s how.

Here’s how an entire generation lost its mind:

🔹 Social Media Addicted Us to Outrage – Anger = engagement. Engagement = profit. Platforms don’t care about truth, they care about keeping you scrolling.
🔹 Big Pharma Medicated the Nation – America is on a chemical cocktail of antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, stimulants, and tranquilizers—many of which make symptoms worse over time.
🔹 The News Became a Propaganda Machine – Journalism is dead. It’s all activism, tribalism, and manipulation.
🔹 Weak Leadership Failed Us – Instead of pushing for unity and solutions, politicians exploit division for votes and power.
🔹 Critical Thinking Was Replaced with Identity Politics – It doesn’t matter what’s true, only who says it.

This is how we arrived at a world where basic reality is controversial.

And unless something changes, this only gets worse.

🔄 The Revival of Common Sense

The good news?

People are waking up.

They are seeing through the manipulation.

They are choosing sanity over hysteria.

How to Escape the Madness:

✅ Refuse to Let Social Media Program You – If something triggers you, ask: Why was this post shown to me? Who profits from my outrage?
✅ Reject Identity Politics – Stop treating opinions like religious dogma.
✅ Seek Truth, Not Tribalism – Good ideas exist on both sides.
✅ Think for Yourself – If a movement requires blind obedience, it’s not truth—it’s a cult.
✅ Prioritize Mental Health Over Politics – If your worldview is making you miserable, it’s time to rethink it.

🚨 Common sense isn’t dead—it’s just been silenced.

And reviving it might be the only thing that saves us.

🔥 Final Thoughts: A World on the Brink of Insanity

This isn’t just division.

This isn’t just politics.

🚨 This is a war for reality itself. 🚨

And only one question remains:

Will you wake up, or will you stay lost in the madness?