A spoken excerpt from Connor Beaton's YouTube video "Anxiety Is Your Body Warning You" arguing that economic insecurity (debt, employer/corporate control, mortgage risk) drives physiological anxiety and depression responses: the body adapts by preventing deep sleep and reproduction-related focus to prioritize threat vigilance. The speaker also claims U.S. debt loads map onto rising anxiety and depression trends.
If you owe somebody money, if Toyota Motor company is telling you what you're going to do tomorrow, or your mortgage company is going to tell you what you do tomorrow, your body would be failing you if it let you sleep deeply. It would be failing you if it let you focus on sex and reproduction. It would be failing you if it did anything other than screamed at you to say hey. If you say one wrong thing at work or put one wrong thing on Twitter and you get fired, you lose your home, you lose your car, you lose your food, and your family goes. You can literally lay the US both collective and individual debt loads and it maps right on top of the trend line for anxiety and depression in this country.
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