There is a new mania.

A new addiction of the ages has crept up from behind and has taken humanity by surprise. The most horrifying part is the sheer number of humans that are affected. Over 60% of the world is affected by this new plague on humanity’s mental health.

Just to paint a picture of how many people that is, in 1924 Heroin addiction was acknowledged. The USA approximated 200,000 individuals with Heroin addiction.

Making the number of humans addicted to Heroin in the USA a little over 5% at that time with just a little math of the USA population in 1924. The Statistical Institute estimated that the world’s population in 1924 was 1,894,874,000.

This means that the number of humans addicted to this new product is greater than the population of the world when Heroin was widely acknowledged as being something that needed to be seriously addressed.

It was only a year until the rest of the globe considered Heroin something that needed to be addressed, in 1925, in the League of Nations. So why did humanity move so fast after realizing that probably no more than 10% of the worlds population at the VERY most (still just an educated guess so don’t quote me) was addicted to heroin, but we haven’t budged while pushing past 60% for this new pandemic?

Do you believe humanity would have been able to move as quickly in to solve a problem if over half of the world was addicted to heroin?

Have you ever seen a heroin addict be motivated to do anything that threatened their ability to get a hit?

There are reasons why Heroin is considered widely to be the most dangerous psychotropic drug to get addicted to.

But is there really a new mega addiction one?

Yes.

But this drug is psychotropic in nature, because of the trance it creates to chain all other addictions & habits together to create an enhanced never-ending high-seeking mental state no matter what else your addictions are.

Not all of us are addicted to heroin, but we all know we have addictions.

Chocolate.

Food.

Sugar.

Porn.

Disney.

Sex.

Feeling Right.

Gossip.

Avoiding Fear.

Shopping.

Approval.

the list goes on and ranging in inherent danger to an individual, community, or lifestyle.

But this new addiction hasn’t been around long. In fact Heroin was around longer, completely legal, and considered an exciting new product of innovation by a very trustworthy company.

It also is important to remember that Heroin didn’t kill that company. They distributed the most dangerous psychotropic drug the world has ever seen, and they are still widely trusted.

Because humans make mistakes.

The company made a mistake by chasing anything other than ethics, the customers made a mistake by trusting hype from scientists too much. Not to say I’m anti science, far from it.

Selling Heroin was not about the science.

“I’m not going to blame a company. I’m not going to blame a way of life.”

So I won’t beat around the bush any more. If only out of respect to those of you that clicked on the link to the first statistic above…

“Over 60% of the world is affected by this new plague on humanities mental health.”

Yes.

This is another article telling you that you are addicted to your phone.

But I’m not writing this trying to sell you on the idea that you should delete your social media apps or that I’m some flip phone luddite trying to make you feel bad about trying to stay connected with the people you love.

Q uite the opposite.

I HATE that I am addicted to my screen, that I living in a time when we don’t have a reasonable solution to this problem. I don’t believe it’s wise to go cold turkey from our screens like some luddite extremist, nor do I attempt to apologize for any screen time. We must accept the hard truth of our reality and simply choose to be more honest about our addiction.