{"id":26395,"date":"2009-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/depression-and-paranoia\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:31:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:31:48","slug":"depression-and-paranoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/depression-and-paranoia\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression and paranoia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALGUNA VEZ LE O\u00cd DECIR A UN PROfesor de sicolog\u00eda que las enfermedades mentales dependen mucho de la sociedad en la que se vive. As\u00ed por ejemplo, me explicaba, mientras en los Estados Unidos mucha gente se deprime, en Am\u00e9rica Latina no faltan los paranoicos. No s\u00e9 si mi colega tiene alguna teor\u00eda para explicar esta diferencia, pero la m\u00eda es esta:<\/p>\n<p>En los pa\u00edses que tienen una gran clase media, que son por lo general pa\u00edses desarrollados, la gente siente que los dem\u00e1s, a pesar de tener m\u00e1s o menos dinero, son ciudadanos, como ellos. En nuestros pa\u00edses, en cambio, las diferencias sociales son tan grandes que la gente ve a los que no son de su clase social como extra\u00f1os y desconf\u00eda de ellos. Esto no me lo estoy inventando yo; fue dicho a mediados del siglo XIX por el historiador Sir Henry James Maine. En las sociedades tradicionales, explicaba Maine, los lazos sociales dependen del estatus, mientras que en las sociedades modernas dependen del derecho. En las primeras dominan el padrinazgo, las relaciones de clientela y las palancas; en las segundas, en cambio, lo que importa es ley.<\/p>\n<p>Mi teor\u00eda entonces es esta: en una sociedad moderna, la falta de desaf\u00edos engendra comportamientos depresivos; en una sociedad como la nuestra, la desconfianza produce paranoicos.<\/p>\n<p>Es muy dif\u00edcil probar lo que estoy diciendo, entre otras cosas porque en Colombia hay una mezcla de tradici\u00f3n y modernidad; sin embargo, creo que todos tenemos evidencias de lo mucho que aqu\u00ed cuenta el estatus social. Cuando digo todos, lo digo en serio. No s\u00f3lo me refiero a los ricos, a los blancos y a los que tienen apellidos ilustres \u2014que aqu\u00ed son los mismos\u2014, sino tambi\u00e9n a los de clase media y a los pobres. En nuestro minucioso escalaf\u00f3n social cada cual encuentra sus amos y sus esclavos. En Bogot\u00e1 los porteros son sumisos cuando se relacionan con los propietarios del edificio, pero d\u00e9spotas cuando un transe\u00fante desorientado les pide informaci\u00f3n. Los choferes de taxi desprecian a los de bus por llevar pasajeros pobretones. Todos miran hacia arriba, bien sea para defenderse o para protegerse (con una palanca) o hacia abajo, para sentirse importantes o para tener a quien mandar.<\/p>\n<p>Muchos subordinados hacen valer la jerarqu\u00eda de sus superiores para imponerse frente a los que est\u00e1n m\u00e1s abajo. En Bogot\u00e1 he visto a m\u00e1s de una secretaria enojarse con una colega a la que consideran inferior \u2014porque su jefe es menos importante que el suyo\u2014, sobre todo cuando esta \u00faltima pretende hacer esperar en el tel\u00e9fono al jefe de aquella.<\/p>\n<p>Incluso en Medell\u00edn o en la costa, en donde las relaciones sociales son m\u00e1s desinhibidas, la jerarqu\u00eda social se impone. El antioque\u00f1o rico puede parecer casi un amigo de su mayordomo, incluso tratarlo de vos, pero lo hace porque sabe muy bien que eso no significa una acercamiento entre ambos. En Antioquia pasa lo mismo que dec\u00eda Fernando D\u00edaz-Plaja sobre Espa\u00f1a: \u201cAqu\u00ed, el se\u00f1or que va al caf\u00e9 habla con el camarero con una confianza que no se encuentra en Francia o en Italia, precisamente porque no teme que acabe sent\u00e1ndose a su lado\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>No estoy defendiendo la idea de una sociedad igualitaria en donde cada quien sea una ficha, un miembro del partido o un hijo de la patria. Lo que quisiera es vivir en un pa\u00eds de ciudadanos regidos por la ley; una ley indiferente y universal. Adem\u00e1s, es m\u00e1s f\u00e1cil lidiar con deprimidos que con paranoicos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once heard a psychology professor say that mental illness depends a lot of the society where one lives. 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