Happy New Year?
This piece is reposted, with permission, from Sociological Images. As the new year brings in a new peak … Read More
Diaper Desperation
Image: Shelving in front of a house in New Orleans with “Community Baby Supplies” sign and boxes of clothing, … Read More
Chronic Pain is More Than A Personal Problem
Image: A white woman sits on a bed in pajamas, her arms clutched around her midsection in pain. Image … Read More
Inequality and Access to Mental Health Care
Image: A black woman sits on the floor, leaning against a sofa, in a low-lit room. Her head is … Read More
Global Rise in Negative Emotions including Pain
Books by Steven Pinker and Hans Rosling, among others, and reports from the World Bank and the UN, all argue … Read More
The Global Refugee Crisis and its Resolution
By 2020 the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) reported 71 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, half of whom qualify … Read More
Website Overview
This site is the new home for Ron Anderson’s website World Suffering & Compassionate Relief of Suffering. Ron Anderson, an … Read More
Where in the World is Suffering Extreme?
The Gallup World Poll reveals the worst pockets of global suffering. On … Read More
The Intractable Suffering of the Homeless
Abstract To those living within the central zones of large cities worldwide, homelessness has become a common way of being. Read More
Addiction, Despair, Meaning and Purpose
Like a bomb explosion, the number of American deaths from opioid abuse has quadrupled in four years to … Read More