a generation ago young people aspired to become lawyers and doctors. now they yearn to be the next oscar winner or celebrity pop star。
but one university psychologist has warned this is wreaking havoc with our self-image and undermining our sense of self-worth。
over recent years people around the world have been suffering from an increasing fear of their own 'insignificance', according to dr carlo strenger of tel aviv university。
he began an interdisciplinary project on the phenomenon 10 years ago, after noticing a surge of this fear in his own patients. his findings, presented in a new book, notes hundreds of research projects that have charted an unprecedented increase in levels of anxiety and depression。
by using a wide-ranging framework dr strenger thinks he has pinpointed the cause. 'the impact of the global infotainment network on the individual is to blame,' he said。
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