One pretty decent correlation is that between poverty and mental illness. People who are regularly abused by others also end up mentally ill. To me it's prett

One pretty decent correlation is that between poverty and mental illness. People who are regularly abused by others also end up mentally ill. To me it's pretty evident that mental illness is caused in large part by your environment. Remove somebody from a certain environment and they will no longer be mentally ill. Keep them in that environment and feed them pills and give them talk therapy and they'll remain ill. It's not like this is some groundbreaking controversial revelation that flips the bird to science. It's a fact that isn't incorporated into a model of mental illness treatment that pretends that "mental illness" is primarily a result of a disordered badly behaving brain. This model is used because its easier to change a person than the society around them. It's easier to empirically measure change when you're measuring the effects of something on an individual rather than on the entire society. I would account for the decline in mental health metrics in the west, there's more self reported mental illness, more suicide, more social withdrawal, largely on the failure to address big picture concerns. Clinical Psychology isn't useless to solve the mental health problems of society. It's just inadequete. It's like expecting tier 1 support to solve a problem that's rooted in an entire network being fucked up. What I see is a society that has problems that are correlated with poor mental health which aren't getting addressed and people are acting as if the solution is leaning more on solutions like talk therapy and pharmacuticals which are failing to address a society-wide decline in mental health.