But, only the most extremely traumatized have personality disorders. Personality disorders were much more common in the 1950s and before because almost anyone had been traumatized growing up just from the harshness of life most places on earth. In the old days (you either survived or you didn't). However, starting around the 1970s less people (especially after the Viet Nam war) had the same level of traumas as before (especially in the children being raised after this time). So, the lessening of abuse of the average person created less people with Personality disorders in general. So, by now, most people with personality disorders in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s have already died off by now. So, less people are affected by Personality disorders I believe now are much less than before (at least here in the U.S.) But this is not true in third world countries around the world where life is still really hard in many places still.
The good thing about less severe traumas is less people tend to be violent than before so people are more domesticated in a positive way than when I grew up in the 1950s.
But, what I have also noticed is that people tend to be much less pragmatic and realistic than they were when I grew up too. So, somehow less traumas also might make the people who survive less practical too.
How this would work before is that if you were not very very practical and survival oriented you didn't survive mentally or physically at all.
Whereas now people might survive physically without being pragmatic or realistic enough to sustain life in their minds and bodies in the 1950s and 1960s here in the U.S.
It took a great deal to survive the 1950s and 1960s at all and many many didn't make it.
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