Societal Impact

I've written a decent amount about how emotions affect our every day lives and I'll continue to do so.  But there's a different aspect of emotional health that's also of interest: The societal impact of emotional health/un-health.  

Emotions affect society in many ways.  I'll write plenty of future posts about specific ways that this happens.  But to give an example, I'll highlight Type 2 Diabetes.  Diabetes is becoming a global health epidemic.  It will cost untold bazillions of dollars in healthcare costs.  Many/most(?) of the cases come from people being over weight.  They are over weight because they eat instead of processing their emotions in healthy ways.  Teach people to process their emotions properly and they'll stop emotional eating, stop gaining weight, stop getting Diabetes, and stop costing society all that money.  This is just one example of the impact that healthy emotions could play on our society.