Thank you, Kerala, for sharing this powerful and disturbing wake-up call about how emotionally damaged we are as a national culture. At the end of your piece, you touch on what I see as the root of the social pathologies you enumerate: alienation. From each other, from people of different ethnicities, or different socioeconomic classes, et al--all driven by our zero-sum culture of mass consumerism: "you are what you own" is the message pumped into us 24/7 by the advertising industry. In the real world, however, we are what we do--with one another and for one another. So how can we rekindle a sense of community in our mutually alienated world? And how do we do so without activating the "dark side" of community: toxic tribalism, or "us" against "them"? I wish I knew.