It doesn’t feel like a genuine question you followed it up with a snide jab. Assuming you didn’t: as a non American who emigrated to the US, the answer is fair

It doesn’t feel like a genuine question you followed it up with a snide jab. Assuming you didn’t: as a non American who emigrated to the US, the answer is fairly clear. My home country (UK) pretends like if you need therapy you either mentally weak (time to man up!) or on the verge of an inpatient psychiatric hold. Marriage counceling is just a desperate prelude to divorce from people that can’t see the writing on the wall. I would never _ever_ tell anyone on the UK if I was taking psychiatric meds. America doesn’t have the same stigma, at least in the coastal states. So people get help. People talk about getting help. Modern life stress is not limited to the US. It’s just the US that talks about it the most. Mental illness is not limited to the US either, they’re just more willing to use medications. And it saves lives. Had I been in the UK with mental illness I have (just the very commmon depression/anxiety power combo) I might be dead by now. I also take great exception to the idea that there has been some seismic change in life that has resulted in more mental health crises. They were just manifested via more normalized alcoholism and home abuse instead.