In adults maybe not, but the prevalence of mental health issues has been on the rise with kids and adolescents during the past 20 years. Curbing that would be pretty cool.
Again, I don't think it's possible to adequately separate the diagnosis of mental health conditions from their actual prevalence.
Teenage suicides in the US, for example, rose during the 80s. It became a major factor in the "satanic panic". Lobbyists and religious groups blamed rock and metal for the rising suicide rate and claimed it was influencing kids to kill themselves. A decade later, in the 90s, there was another moral panic around Marilyn Manson, who became a kind of singular hate figure for the religious right. Again, these attacks often included claims that rates or suicide or self-harm among teenagers were caused by music. Cut forward another decade, and this time it's emo.
It may be that mental health issues in kids and adolescents actually are on the rise. Honestly, it kind of wouldn't surprise me. Kids today are far more aware of the world around them thanks to the internet, and face a very uncertain and frightening future. However, we can't really compare these kids accurately to previous generations because, in previous generations, people were utterly, utterly blind to any kind of mental health issues. Almost everyone I knew in high school self harmed. Several of us went on to attempt suicide. The level of obliviousness and neglect from adults of the time still makes me angry to this day.
If one raises naked whisky yoga on Goa to the same level with raising a family, then our culture is a failure.
I agree, our culture is a failure.
If you go to a restaurant and the two items on the menu are a bowl of spaghetti and a bowl of shit, you're probably going to choose the spaghetti.
Conservatives screaming about how much shit is piled up in the kitchen because noone is eating it, or trying to put up posters showing smiling people eating mouthfuls of shit, might initially persuade or guilt a few people, but long term you can't polish a turd. The sad fact is, the only reason anyone
ever ordered the shit is because, in the past,
certain people weren't allowed to order the spaghetti.
Our culture was incredibly dependent on discrimination. It relied on the idea that women would make all sacrifices and do all the work of raising children with no expectation of reward. It expected women to act as unpaid domestic servants while men got to do all the fun, exciting rewarding stuff. Women have fought incredibly hard against the prevailing unfairness of our culture, they have fought for the right to live independent lives and to be treated as full human beings and overall they are winning, but our culture has utterly, utterly failed to adapt.
You aren't going to stop women ordering the spaghetti. You need to change the menu.
It's also ironic that women are supposed to make sacrifice to fix something which currently isn't a problem (there is no concern about population in most developed countries) but meanwhile the planet is literally dying, and our culture cannot even adapt to prevent that. Now that is failure.