‘You’re not alone anymore’: Four words that can turn a life around

Investment Magazine

The sheer volume of information that individuals are exposed to and asked to absorb every day is contributing to a kind of “overwhelm syndrome” and exacerbating the issues that lead to poor mental health, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard. Lifeline Australia chair Professor Steve Moylan told the symposium in Healesville, Victoria, that living in the information age means we are “exposed now to a far greater amount of information than we’ve ever been [exposed] to before”. “We have to process so much information all the time. It’s in your pockets, it’s in your phone,” he said, in conversation with Conexus Financial founder Colin Tate AM.

“I presume all of you will have contacts overseas, and you’re doing meetings late at night and early in the morning, and you’re checking markets and other conditions. You’re consuming all of this data and information, and the fact is that we just haven’t had to do that before, as humans. “Our brains have not had to do that before, and when we have to consume this information, our brains become overwhelmed. We develop kind of an overwhelm syndrome. We get anxious, we get agitated, we get other things.”

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