Jalyna Rose’s Reviews > Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging > Status Update

"Studies from around the world show that recovery from war—from any
trauma—is heavily influenced by the society one belongs to, and there are
societies that make that process relatively easy. Modern society does not seem to be one of them."

"The positive effects of war on mental health were first noticed by the great sociologist Emile Durkheim, who found that when European countries went to war, suicide rates dropped."

“When people are actively engaged in a cause their lives have more
purpose… with a resulting improvement in mental health,” Lyons wrote in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 1979.

"(Both) the most affluent and the most miserable of the human race are to be found in the countries that are called civilized.” - Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice, 1795.

"The American Indian should serve as a model for how to eradicate poverty and bring natural rights back into civilized life." - Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice, 1795.