Britain is becoming a more fearful place

[deca]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/britain-is-becoming-a-more-fearful-place-ndash-and-the-economy-is-paying-the-price-1668256.html


Britain is becoming a more fearful place – and the economy is paying the price

By Jeremy Laurance, Health editor

Tuesday, 14 April 2009

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The proliferation of CCTV has made Britons fearful of crime, the report said

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The proliferation of CCTV has made Britons fearful of crime, the report said

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Britain is becoming a more fearful nation, with rising levels of anxiety and depression that are fuelling the economic crisis by undermining confidence, a report says today.

More than one third of those questioned in a Mental Health Foundation survey said they felt more frightened than they used to, and more than three quarters said the world was a more frightening place than a decade ago.

In February, the Office for National Statistics published figures showing a 12 per cent rise in the rate of anxiety disorders in the UK between 1993 and 2007, equivalent to 800,000 more sufferers. More than 7 million people are living with anxiety problems. The Mental Health Foundation report, "In The Face Of Fear", says the two trends are linked. The more fearful people feel in the general population, the more are tipped over into clinical anxiety problems, with an increased risk of heart disease, digestive troubles, asthma and allergies.

The charity blames a "culture of fear", stoked by threatening news reports, politicians using "worst-case scenario" language, and institutions fostering an air of catastrophe around knife crime, MRSA, bird flu and terrorism.

It says the use of measures to reduce fear – such as CCTV cameras (of which the UK has more than the rest of Europe put together) – can have the opposite effect. "Such devices can actually make people feel more fearful as they sense that high security suggests risk. Fear of crime continues to rise, even though crime has fallen in the last decade," the report says.

The financial crisis is increasing levels of fear, with two-thirds of those surveyed reporting greater insecurity as a result. Anxiety UK, the largest anxiety disorders charity, reported a doubling of calls to its helpline in the first two months of the year. But fear is also making the crisis worse as people are too afraid to lend, spend and invest. "The emotion is over-riding logical thinking", which is "partly driving the economic crisis", the report says.

The most vulnerable are those who are single, divorced, poor, poorly educated, living in towns, on their own or as lone parents. Four times as many people live alone today than 50 years ago, but too few people seek help, with one in seven people with anxiety and depression receiving treatment.

Nicky Lidbetter, chief executive of Anxiety UK, said: "We have experienced an unprecedented number of enquiries since the beginning of the year from people seeking help largely due to the economic crisis."

[gilly]

So the NWO string-pullers will be congratulating themselves!

Meanwhile, many readers of this article will subconsciously internalise & believe the message, "The world is more scary & dangerous than it used to be".

[bobhodge]

the UK was a shithole when i left in 92, and it was even more of a shithole when i came back in 2005. it gets worse every year.

[killmicrosoft]

only the people can change it but they put there faith in the evil ones
it gets worse every year.


You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour.
And there are things to be considered:

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.

Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
See who is in there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally.
Least of all, ourselves.
For the momnet that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.

[gilly]

the UK was a shithole when i left in 92, and it was even more of a shithole when i came back in 2005. it gets worse every year.

The UK has many places of outstanding natural beauty (as well as shit holes), and lots of warm, lovely people (as well as numpties). :p

That's not really the point of the article though.

[anthony65]

Britain really seems to be on the frontline (with the other Anglo nations)...

In Germany I don't get any sense of fear...

It's a great place to live right now...

Britain and the US have been intentionally fucked up...

Quite successfully apparently.

Of course it can happen here too...

But there are precious few signs of social unrest at present...

There are signs, however, that the economy is imploding though...

And generally I'd have thought Germans were more natural worriers than the British who used to be pretty much down to earth and hard as clogs...

[anthony65]

The UK has many places of outstanding natural beauty (as well as shit holes), and lots of warm, lovely people (as well as numpties). :p

That's not really the point of the article though.

It's relevant to the thread though...

I think Britain suffers from perpetual delusional victory syndrome, which is why they still start wars around the world for causes such as heroin production or oil supplies...

People in the UK who have never profited from any of the overseas wars and conquests of Britain have been conditioned to believe the Britain is somehow better than the rest, although millions of British tourists have seen in recent decades that this definitely wasn't true...

Every country has many places of outstanding natural beauty.

Every country has many warm, lovely people.

Unfortunately, many of the British have allowed themselves to be penned into a little field on a little island where they have lost touch with reality.

Of course, this occurs in all other countries as well, but most other countries have been obliged to admit their fuck ups, past and present, while the British, while feigning a laid back humorous character, are actually sensitive as hell about their own shortcomings and even those of the tyrants who abuse them...

Britain, like every other nation, has it's share of pyscopaths and wannabe fascists/communists. The difference is that these sickos are currently creeping into power in Britain because the population feels that their island is immune to totalitarianism...

Wrong... :(

[nofuture]

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=6337&edition=1&ttl=20090414114603

[void]

I agree with Gilly. "Lay the path, and others will follow" in a way.
Now it's officially sanctioned - "Fear is the norm. Everyone has it"

It's akin to the oft repeated "unprecedented obesity epidemic"

Which I'm not sure actually exists, when I look at people around me.

Of course, they'll soon be calling this an "unprecedented epidemic of fear"

People will take it as fact if they're bombarded with the claim day in day out.

People lived on rations and survived the blitz. Talk about 'anxiety'

We'll need to keep things in perspective to get through the coming years.
Otherwise it will breed an attitude of low confidence in our abilitys to do so.
And a nanny state loves that. It will wheel out their latest solutions to it all.

[gilly]

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=6337&edition=1&ttl=20090414114603

I've a funny feeling my comments won't get published!

[clozaril]

http://www.rjerrard.co.uk/law/willan/inventingfearofcrimeWillan2007.jpg

i haven't read this, what a title :eek:

[endlessvista]

the UK was a shithole when i left in 92, and it was even more of a shithole when i came back in 2005. it gets worse every year.

So Tony Blair's "Cool Britannia" never worked out?

Gosh, and he was so honest and upfront about everything else!

[void]

http://www.rjerrard.co.uk/law/willan/inventingfearofcrimeWillan2007.jpg

The Book (not all of it of course) to read on Google Books (http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7UQEHhZOPp0C&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=google+books+inventing+fear+of+crime&source=bl&ots=BEDQKZC7qq&sig=CehIWh45Gq0aDuLLxUlt3mNxcqk&hl=en&ei=FnjkSfbuI8eT_Qb817mTCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#PPP1,M1)

I've just had a look on Amazon.co.uk, and it ranges in price from $19-£55 to buy :eek:

[void]

Britain is becoming a more fearful place

I suppose the real question that BBC's Have your say should have been, was...

"Briton's are bombarded with fear tactics. How much of that has basis in reality, and how much in fiction?"

[beldazar]

the UK was a shithole when i left in 92, and it was even more of a shithole when i came back in 2005. it gets worse every year.

Did you knoiw that the Uk is rather large? Its not a shithole everywhere...:rolleyes:

[hagbard_celine]

So the NWO string-pullers will be congratulating themselves!

Meanwhile, many readers of this article will subconsciously internalise & believe the message, "The world is more scary & dangerous than it used to be".


Yes, goodness knows what it would be like if we had nothing to be scared of!:D We might start thinking for ourselves and wondering why we need this overpaid and pampered Elite to watch over us while nicking all our tax money!:rolleyes:

[omnit]

LOL!

There was a time when i would have lapped this up, but not anymore lol!

There aint nothing to be afraid of, but fear itself!

[grannymoose]

i secound this post.
Living in Nottingham here and it's not a nice place anymore
Were over run by teenage mums, jobless, crime were many don't even open the door after a certain time. Certain areas that the police won't go unless theres a group of them, camera's on every courner watching you.
There's roads you can get high on with just walking down the street with the weed fumes.
Forgive my language " it's a shit hole"! and this place is the tip of the ice burg.

[lynfowars]

It is very hard to take issue with the comments that the UK is indeed, a shithole now. I think only a highly visible portion of the people are the shitholes but they dominate. The country remains the most beautiful in the world in places, those where the shitholes haven't burnt their stolen cars or thrown their empty cans of 'stella' and 'red bull'

Hard to tell where we went wrong as a nation. For some reason I am drawn to watching films and programs footage from the 40's and 50's. Things were no easy-ride back then, but there was a basic common respect for each other that hardly ever shows now, and self-respect in the way people presented themselves. I cannot watch many 'modern' tv programs, they seem full of images of 'chavvy' people as some kind of 'norm' or 'ideal' that just depress me. Dressed like they just crawled down from a tree...bling bling and beach shorts, even in freezing weather, for example.

I remember the late 80's, there was a distinct period when many teenaged boys and young men made a conscious effort to shave their heads. It became 'the thing to do'. Not because of alopecia, no, they wanted that thug's potatoe-head look that previously was the preserve of the Skinhead culture.

Entire generations of lads (and now men) are now potatoe-heads from cradle to grave, many men going into true baldness with alopecia without ever knowing what fcking colour their shaved hair was.

They seem invariably aggressive.

Show me 100 young potatoe-heads, then show me an equal-aged group of well brought-up lads with normal hair. I promise the potatoe heads group will have form for violence where the others will have hardly any.

It's not the potatoe-head look per-se, but the underlying weakness of character that makes them change their entire look and culture, just to fit-in. You can see them as adults, spilling outside the pubs when it's sunny, mobbing all-day ownership of the garden tables in their little potatoe-head gangs. All trying to look as hard as their round potatoe-faces will let them mould the 'look'. Add some tatoos and a red-cross white t-shirt and you're their friend for life. An England match as well? Oh Heaven!!

BE AN INDIVIDUAL, YOU POTATOE HEADS!

GROW SOME BALLS AND GROW YOUR HAIR!

DRESS LIKE MEN, NOT LITTLE BABIES!

Okay, that was all sort of tongue-in-cheek. But people need their self respect back. They need to stop descending to what are essentially de-evolved pack animals and have the balls to be individuals again, instead of these armies of clones... clones do not think for themselves, that is why they are so easy for the government, through the media, to manipulate into fear and aggression.

[hawk]

Damn, and I thought the good old days of horror movies were enough to scare people.
This is ridiculous.
They want everyone to be scared of everything.If I go outside,will I fall? If I open the mail, will there be something poisonous in it? yada yada yada.
Hell, lets just hide under our beds for Christ's sake.
The Yankees do that here in America.They're practically paranoid!
People are scared of their own shadows. I feel as though I don't care anymore. Too tired to care.

[deca]

don`t worry big brother will take care off you, keep you safe , tuck you in and read you bedtime stories.....what to think ,want to say & do

[thankyoudave]

Under New Labour who can blame people for being anxious. This lot have basically wiped their arse with our country. :mad:

[kingmonkey]

People get all worked up after reading the papers...They need to chill out and stop letting themselves be scared into submission by these fucking idiots...

This is how you defeat a nation...You create defeat in their collective mind first. The rest is child's play.

[macmauro]

Wellcome to the IV Reich :cool:

[hagbard_celine]

don`t worry big brother will take care off you, keep you safe , tuck you in and read you bedtime stories.....what to think ,want to say & do


That's the idea. Classic, textbook Problem-Reaction-Solution:rolleyes:.

[hagbard_celine]

People get all worked up after reading the papers...They need to chill out and stop letting themselves be scared into submission by these fucking idiots...

This is how you defeat a nation...You create defeat in their collective mind first. The rest is child's play.

Yes, nearly all this fear is as a result of media "information" rather than direct personal experience. Yes, we've had some redundancies etc, but the apocalypitc predictions you see on the news these days are so far merely that... predictions.

[krakhead]

Charlie Brooker talked about fear and news in Newswipe.

If I may be so bold as to point you to a thread of mine.....

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showpost.php?p=932855&postcount=12

[kweli]

Charlie Brooker talked about fear and news in Newswipe.

If I may be so bold as to point you to a thread of mine.....

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showpost.php?p=932855&postcount=12

You're obsessed with Charlie Brooker. are you a fan boi? lolz...

[squeakamuffin]

What is very interesting about this is that it shows the UK establishment is purposely seeking to keep the population in a constant state of fear using various social engineering techniques and the use of technology (CCTV, surveillance, media scapegoating, use of military technology etc).

On a spiritual level it shows that whoever or whatever the UK establishment has aligned itself with on an occult level is a poisonous thing that seeks to corrupt, corrode and debase the human spirit.

So the best thing we can do is not to live in fear or doubt anymore. and to cultivate a spiritual love that doesnt discriminate. And the trick to doing that is to see the world has it is. A beautiful life affirming place that has given us all love and life. so when ever the controlled media seeks to put us in fear, and when the government seeks to keep us in spiritual poison, always bring your thoughts and love back to the uncorrupted beauty of this planet and the uncorrupted spiritual love we emanate on to the world.

Love . Dont fear.

[kingmonkey]

Yes, nearly all this fear is as a result of media "information" rather than direct personal experience.

Yes, exactly...People see a child molester or a gun wielding 15 year old in The Sun and think it's an epedemic with one on every street. They don't realise that these things are not the norm, or at least happen in vastly less numbers than the media would have us believe.

[hagbard_celine]

Yes, exactly...People see a child molester or a gun wielding 15 year old in The Sun and think it's an epedemic with one on every street. They don't realise that these things are not the norm, or at least happen in vastly less numbers than the media would have us believe.

Yes, they emphasise certain dangers while ignoring others and this gives us a false perspective on the threats we face. For instance the number of people killed by the IRA, 3000, sounds like a lot, mostly because every single IRA murder has been given headlines. But, terrible though it is, the IRA killed over 40 years, the same number of people killed on British roads every 15 days!:eek:

I remember a lady I knew at work telling me how afraid she was for her son. He'd just joined the army and was being deployed to the Middle East. I comforted her by asking her if she'd be so worried if her son had gone to work on an oil rig. She said "Of course not!" I then told her that, based on factual statisitcs, he'd be in more danger on an oil rig than in Iraq or Afghanistan. But when a soldier and an oil rigger is killed in the line of duty, who gets the most headlines? Answers on a postcard plase!:rolleyes:

[kingmonkey]

Hmmm, stinks dunnit?

Like the old terrorism thing; how many people have been killed by islamic terrorists in the U.K? And how many have been killed by heart disease from too much red meat? Where's the "War on Meat"?! That's what I'd like to know...