Mental health is such a complicated problem because of how directly it's tied into the way a person experiences and processes information. In order to get treat

Mental health is such a complicated problem because of how directly it's tied into the way a person experiences and processes information. In order to get treatment for someone there needs to be some basic recognition that something may be wrong which might sound fairly straight forwards, but it's a classic consciousness problem of having a ruler somehow accurately measure itself. It's hard to be objective here, more-so, without being armed with the right vocabulary and ideas related to mental health you might not even know what questions are worth asking. That means that short of more extreme problems I'd expect a lot of cases of mental illness go over-looked simply because people aren't aware they even need help. Talking about it is a good first step. If there is something wrong you can bounce ideas off people and start building a better understanding. This is very useful because I think a lot of people expect doctors to be mind readers regarding this, when in reality you have to talk about a huge amount of background info, your thoughts, feelings, problems, and so on, for them to be able to help you... and that can be uncomfortable for private people. Hopefully in the future there are biological tests for mental illness and you could get a blood test or even the equivalent of a grocery store style pregnancy test. That would be revolutionary.