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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do so many people have mental health problems these days? Was it always this prevalent?[/quote]

I think it cuts both ways.  Some of it was always there and just ignored or swept under the rug by the families.  But some of is is a result of the way we live now with information and executive function overload pushing more people to the edge.  Imagine someone prone to anxiety before internet.  They'd hear a couple of scary local stories related to whatever their trigger is, but that would be it.  Now they can easily find every tragic case within 1000 miles radius AND will conveniently be served more stories as they come up due to social media algorithms.   Think about all the paperwork that floods your inbox requiring your immediate attention - just deciding whether it's truly important, some sort of a sales pitch or an outright scam is exhausting.

I work in risk management and one of the exercises we do to teach people about phishing is sending official looking emails asking to click on a link.  Our most "successful" email was saying that if you don't immediately fill out this form, your paychecks will stop.  We caught the CEO!!!  It's a sad commentary on the current state of life that people truly believe it is a possibility.
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To prior, prior poster,

My husbands grandmother thought the exteme cases of mental illness now are due to the fact that most people are not doing hard work outside.  She said back in her day it was extremely rare for a man to get mental illness. She said young males and men were working from sun up to sun down on the farm out in the sunshine doing hard physical labor all day.

Women also worked hard back in the day.  The grandmother said women would get post partum depression. Other forms of mental illness in would have been extremely rare in women.[/quote]

Yes and no.
Many families had the Crazy Brother, who just stayed inside all the time out of the way. 
For those who sent out the Crazy Brother, tragic no-common-sense accidents ensued: walking off the cliff, went in the bear cave, stuck their arm in the combine, forgot to plant or harvest the crops on time, got hit by a train, lost an eye gifting about. 
They didn’t reproduce back then.

Today someone like that could make money doing a tech programming job in their basement, marry some hard up lady, and have kids. Go on to drive everyone crazy. [/quote]

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