Psychology
fromPsychology Today
6 days agoWhen Anxiety Turns Us Into Control Freaks
Anxiety drives the need for control over ourselves and others, often leading to stress and repeating family patterns.
What we can expect to see with the AI jobs onslaught is an amplification of the anxieties that typically come with a loss of income. This is obvious enough: without money to pay for rent, groceries, heat, healthcare, or any of the other necessities of life, people don't exactly thrive. One of the hidden impacts of all this is a heightened risk of psychological illness.
The most significant threats which modern society faces are not tangible or immediate risks; rather, they are future anticipated catastrophic events. These modern risks are global in nature, whereas previously risks were limited to local, controlled environments. Beck asserts that such a transformation in our sense of risk redirects social energy toward the anticipation and prevention of future catastrophes, creating a continual state of heightened awareness.