Mental Health Update

This passage illustrates how many ways modern man deals with anxiety. It's not just therapy and anti-depressents. It's also depilatories and antiperspirants.

My body entombs me.

The body is the source of the drive for gratification. Its appetites never cease. It is insatiable and cannot sustain itself. It requires maintenance through sport and exercise. It requires fuel. Under consumerism the old hostility towards its appetites has been modified. Still the object of discipline, we impose the aesthetic sensibilities of culture upon it, extracting compliance with the aid of cosmetics and depilatories, personal hygiene products stock the shelves with their anxiety-suppressing fragrances, from mouthwash to panty liners, unsightly hair removers, shaving the armpits.

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