The American psyche is not a pretty place right now, says award-winning journalist David Kupelian.The stats he cites are stunning: More than 130 million Americans dependent on mind-altering substances just to get through life, 1 in 4 middle-aged women taking antidepressants, 1 in ten girls engaged in “cutting,” and 110 million Americans with sexually transmitted diseases.

“If you look at all the numbers, you say, ‘My God, it looks like all the grownups are addicted,’” Kupelian said during a live, in-studio interview this week on theDove TV. “They have so much conflict and pain that they are trying to deaden that pain any way they know.”

(Watch Kupelian on theDove TV at bottom of this article.)

So what’s at the core of Americans’ skyrocketing personal disintegration – including the widely reported upsurge in white middle class suicide and heroin and opioid addiction? Kupelian, the bestselling author of several influential books including the recently