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Is our mental health getting worse, or are we more aware of mental health issues? The article mentions how more people seek therapy now than 20 years ago and how more people are reporting their mental health as not good. However, I wonder how many people back then had mental health issues that they suffered in silence with. There used to be more of a stigma with having mental health disorders which led to people not seeking treatments (which of course led to less diagnoses). Someone with anxiety or depression would live with it or chalk it up to a character flaw or might think that what they're dealing with was what everyone dealt with, but they probably wouldn't seek therapy or tell anyone that their mental health is poor. So I do think that part of it is people acknowledging their struggles with mental health more now than ever.
I think this is a big factor in the uptick of MH cases being reported. It's more okay to seek out help, so it gets reported more. The cases were still there 20 years ago.
When the military started to crack down on sexual assault and made it more "friendly" to report being a victim the number of cases reported went up. The cases where always there. Now we have a better idea of what we didn't know before.
It's the same thing with more lgbqt+ people. They've always existed, but since it's more and more acceptable to come out more people are comfortable than ever before, despite the right screaming that kids are being "indoctrinated".