Escaping Average: Psychologist Predicts Things Will Get Worse Before They Get Better.

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Prior to COVID-19, all projections suggested that the physical and mental health of the average individual was likely to stagnate or decline. The average life expectancy had plateaued, and by 2030, it was predicted that things like depression, anxiety, diabetes, obesity, and a wide variety of other issues would increase at the population level.

This was BEFORE the pandemic. After the pandemic, these trends were, unsurprisingly, supercharged.

Now is not a good time to be “Average”.

Average is a statistical term. The “average” person is the statistical norm based on the aggregate of data spread across a sample or a population.

For the “average person”, things are about to get worse. They’re health, well-being, life expectancy, subjective quality of life, and other mental health are all slowly eroding. Chronic Stress, financial insecurity, and preventable health issues are all gradually on the rise.

Don’t worry, it’s likely that this influx is a slow one; it’s not like a crash in the stock market that can plummet sharply or abruptly. The decrease in quality of life is sometimes so slow that it’s imperceptible. But that’s what’s so dangerous about it. When it happens slowly, we…