According to Laing, a person with schizophrenia does not feel wholly embodied, but instead experiences a constant threat of implosion, coming from the outside world, which can eventually develop into hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia.
In the UK, working poor and many middle income families are under severe financial stress due to the increasing cost of home ownership and of renting, which pays the mortgages of landlords.
Both of these are encouraged by the Government's ideology of 'growing the economy' which in turn creates chronic stress that often lead to health-related issues which impact adults' and children's lives adversely.
[8] One has to be cautious in this regard to avoid co-opting the concept of ontological security for any specific economic agenda, and always be focused on the lived experience and how it plays out under the influence of Government policies and events in the material concrete reality.
[10][11][12][13][14] Ontological security in world politics can be defined as the possession, on the level of the unconscious and practical consciousness, of answers to fundamental questions that all polities in some way need to address such as existence, finitude, relations with others and their autobiography.