Wasn't there some pop psychology thing about this? Something about how during horrible years in the 20th century, some people who normally felt horrible were feeling better?
There was a bit in Robert "IsAFed" Evans's It Could Happen Here about some studies conducted on people's mental health conditions improving and people having greater feelings of personal fulfillment during wartime but I cannot for the life of me remember any info specific enough to look up the studies to cite them.
Wasn't there some pop psychology thing about this? Something about how during horrible years in the 20th century, some people who normally felt horrible were feeling better?
"Misery loves company". If you're normally depressed and hopeless, seeing other people go nuts is a bit of a comfort.
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There was a bit in Robert "IsAFed" Evans's It Could Happen Here about some studies conducted on people's mental health conditions improving and people having greater feelings of personal fulfillment during wartime but I cannot for the life of me remember any info specific enough to look up the studies to cite them.
That might have been where I first heard it.