I am sorry but the idea that 'bad old days had great mental health is a meme.
Do we have any evidence? Was anyone even counting who is depressed and who isn't? What about other mental issues and traumas? They didnt exactly have loads of psycologists avaliable.
Did you not read what I wrote or are you trying to troll?
Anyway, I'll rephrase it, so that it may become clearer to you: my father didn't survive all his traumas because he's stronger than current generations, but because he was not constantly surrounded by misleading messages of rapid success and luxurious lifestyle, something that you should absolutely try to obtain or you're a loser, he was too busy trying to get out the horrors of a war and start his life.
In a way being detached from what's happening in the rest of the World, except the usual news reporting and the usual political propaganda, sheltered him from the fear of failure.
My father started being a bit depressed when he retired, because he felt he had no purpose anymore.
Kids today feel they have no purpose too soon in their lives.
> Do we have any evidence? Was anyone even counting who is depressed and who isn't?
Yeah, we do have them.
Just look for them.
I was volunteering with Red Cross when Rwandan genocide happened, I helped kids with parts of the skull cut out with a machete, they were not depressed, they were scared and traumatized, but not depressed. They were actually happy to be alive and have other kids to play with in a new country, with the perspective of a new life.
Same happened after the first war in Yugoslavia.
> What about other mental issues and traumas?
trauma doesn't automatically lead to depression.
Kids of today are not traumatized, they are pressured into success by the world surrounding them, which is almost entirely social networks.
> They didnt exactly have loads of psycologists avaliable.
In my country psychologic support is free and universal since after the WW2.
And even before then, but you know, Mussolini was in power, so it didn't really matter.
Basaglia, the great reformer of our psychiatric system, was born in 1924.
Psychology was born in 19th century, Jung was already practicing in 1900, if only there weren't two World wars in 30 years...
As an aside, watering down what constitutes trauma and then assuming everyone's actions are the result of trauma seems like a path toward denying people their agency which is an implied goal of a lot of people these days.
> You have to keep in ming that there is huge stigma around going to a psycologust for help, esp. for people of older generation.
that stigma still exists.
the difference is that if it is necessary (for example psychiatric disorders) in my country they will treat you for free, even if it takes years or have to take drugs for your entire life.
I am sorry but the idea that 'bad old days had great mental health is a meme.
Do we have any evidence? Was anyone even counting who is depressed and who isn't? What about other mental issues and traumas? They didnt exactly have loads of psycologists avaliable.