What you're describing is societal illness, not societal collapse. Collapse involves the complete failure of infrastructure such as law enforcement, hospitals, agriculture and distribution, etc. Which leads to the fall of government and disease, famine, plunge in population, widespread violence, etc. Basically a Mad Max or Escape From New York situation. Eventually the society in question completely disappears.

It's like the difference between a cough and complete lung failure resulting in death.

What you're describing is societal illness, not societal collapse. Collapse involves the complete failure of infrastructure such as law enforcement, hospitals, agriculture and distribution, etc. Which leads to the fall of government and disease, famine, plunge in population, widespread violence, etc. Basically a Mad Max or Escape From New York situation. Eventually the society in question completely disappears. It's like the difference between a cough and complete lung failure resulting in death.

What you're describing is societal illness, not societal collapse.

Collapse involves the complete failure of infrastructure such as law enforcement, hospitals, agriculture and distribution, etc. Which leads to the fall of government and disease, famine, plunge in population, widespread violence, etc. Basically a Mad Max or Escape From New York situation.

It's like the difference between a cough and complete lung failure resulting in death.