It's a wonder, when you really think about it, how civilized, "advanced" societies struggle as much as they do emotionally. Most of the life-or-death things that once threatened our bodies and minds and hearts are no longer issues, so survival is usually not a "maybe" thing in our day-to-day life. What that leaves to tackle is a profoundly deep well of mental and emotional understanding (or lack-there-of). We've been afforded the opportunity to really explore our mental and emotional selves, but rather than capitalize on that, we run from it, and hide further into our suffering than we do embrace understanding.