For the record I didn’t mean 100% of cases are valid. I meant that the trend of worsening mental health at the societal level is 100% factual. But yeah I completely agree with everything you said.

That’s not what I was saying at all. The increase in mental health disorders is 100% real and measurable. The people who suffer from these disorders aren’t weak or “faking it”. I’m saying that the lives people live in the modern world CAUSE depression, ADHD, anxiety, etc. People are suffering more and in different ways than they would have a generation or two ago.

The “people have always been this depressed, it’s just that now we’re more aware of it” theory doesn’t seem to hold up in my opinion. I’m not a psychologist so take this with a grain of salt, but the mental health epidemic we’re seeing now seems to be caused by social conditions unique to the 21st century.