re: Why has mental health declined so much over the years?

I struggle with it too. I think it comes down too, they used to not have time for these problems back in the early 1900s. You had to focus on having enough to live. Slowly as we progressed in the 1900s and more people began having more. Less real problems to worry about like living and more fake problems made it progress, however it was misdiagnosed and mistreated. People didn’t have the global connectivity they have in the coming 40-50 years so you don’t have people talking about it.

Finally you get to the 90s 00s and now. People have almost no real problems and start manufacturing them bc they have much more times to get in their own heads and develop problems for themselves. Couple that with the fact that we’re connected to everyone everywhere. Everyone has a voice so you know about anything and everything. Each and every person that has these issues is counted today.

Also, the decline of nationalism and having a common enemy, ie Nazi Germany, Soviet Union a lot less reason to unite as a nation and then we look inward and see all the differences and problems.


TLDR: A ton of contributing factors that basically boil down to, we don’t have any real problems so we contrive them. Couple that with the fact that we can hear about anyone and everyone and any study done on mental health today.