I don't think much about the human condition has changed. Rather, people are becoming more open about mental health issues, and we are developing ways to treat

I don't think much about the human condition has changed. Rather, people are becoming more open about mental health issues, and we are developing ways to treat them. In the past, you'd just suffer in silence by yourself, or hope it got better on its own. I remember as a kid I had strep throat a lot. If I were born 200 years earlier, it would be accepted that sometimes you go blind or die from that. Every episode would have been a nail-biter for my parents. But in the age of antibiotics and 5 minute rapid tests, you go to the doctor and they cure it. Are we overreliant on drugs? Nope, we're just dying less from childhood diseases. I look at mental health issues through the same lens -- we're better at recognizing them and treating them now, so what looks like more people with mental health issues is actually the medical system helping more people. (The same is true of pretty much anything. In the 1700s, there weren't a lot of people with Internet streams driving around looking for tornados. In the 2020s, there are, and as a result there are a lot more tornado reports. Does that mean the frequency of tornadoes is increasing? Nope. It just means the one that touches down in a field in the middle of nowhere is live-streamed from 20 separate angles, instead of going unnoticed by humanity as it would have many years ago.)