Nobody is anti-marriage. You're just pulling a straw-man out of your ass.
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"Not only is there contrary evidence showing problems with reasoning are widespread as well as potentially associated with mental health rather than mental disorder. But the evidence in favour of CBT’s take on mental illness is tainted because the tests used in these studies do not even track problems with reasoning. CBT provides a compelling story about mental illness – mental illness is associated with “faulty” reasoning, and in resolving this, negative behaviour and emotions are addressed. Unfortunately, research doesn’t quite back up this story."
Of course, like I said to the other comment. I'm open to hearing contrary evidence (if it comes from actual economists and not journalists).
I'm open to evidence that this happening, I'm just pointing out that I've seen dozens of people online make this claim and no one ever provides evidence to back it up. I don't have time to thoroughly read through all 6 of those articles, but I've skimmed through them and don't see evidence for the claim there either. The Jacobin and City articles just assert that it's true without citing any evidence. The Business Insider doesn't even try to make that claim, it immediately blames rent-control in the 4-6 paragraphs. The Fox5 article just says units are empty without trying to provide an explanation.
If there is a piece of the articles I missed, please point it out.
Your cake analogy side-steps the mind-body problem by conflating the mind with the brain.
Why is it so hard for people to get adequate sleep, exercise, a good diet and social interaction? Even most non-depressed people I know don't do these things well (except maybe the last one), so this isn't something unique to depression.
The article references two previous studies that were presumably done in America, but they were both done in 2020 during the height of the pandemic. Seems like a big limitation of the research.
The article then says 9 out of 10 women prefer remote work and that remote work has been found to increase diversity.
This is just your own opinion at this point. It's not buddhism. Buddhism has specific teachings that it posits as being true, regardless of whether you've personally experienced them.
I've come to the conclusion after a lot of reading, practice, and contemplation that there is NO form of buddhism that makes any sense to engage with unless you believe in rebirth. The point of buddhism is to escape rebirth, not achieve some psychological state like happiness or well-being. If you're expecting the later out of buddhism, you're probably better off putting your energy into more "worldly" endeavors. I've been much happier since I stopped meditating and started using that time to focus on friends, hobbies, career and dating.
Traditional buddhists would probably facepalm at this and say something like "no duh, rebirth is buddhism 101". But a lot of American buddhist traditions present rebirth as an optional belief which is nonessential to buddhist practice. I even watched an American zen teacher call rebirth "bullshit" publicly in a talk once.
What's sad to me is that therapists have started recommending meditation as some universal good, despite the research on it still being pretty young. It seems they've been influenced by the American buddhist/mindfulness movement and are being rather uncritical. I'm sure small amounts of meditation can help some people with stress and anxiety, but it shouldn't be viewed as something to automatically recommend to every patient like sleep and exercise.