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

Too much information all of the time. I'm prone to anxiety as is and I know that constant flow of information has made me more depressed and anxious as I get older. For example, this morning I'm scrolling on Facebook (stupid I know) and I see someone sharing a gofundme page for a family who recently lost their two year old. I saw this on an old colleague's page, a person I haven't actually talked to in years, and its about a person who lives 5 states away and I'll never know. Now I'm thinking about how depressing that whole thing is and it brings me down. I would have never seen this pre social media days. The constant flow of negative news is just a downer, and its not that there is more bad news today than years ago, its just always there for you to see. In 1985 if you didn't catch the news at 6:30, then you missed out on the news for the most part. If something didn't happen in your immediate area, then you didn't know about it, and didn't worry about it.