Can we define mental health? Are we talking anxiety, depression? Schizophrenia? Bipolar?
I personally can't answer that question. I do not know to what degree any of those could be mostly genetic or environmentally induced. I suspect it's a mixed bag. If any of the ones you listed have an environmental component, I believe that part can potentially be fixed. This the function of psychiatry, to make conscious to the patient the events that created the feelings behind the illness opening a door to freedom from negative past experience.
Actually, it's less mental health and more despair. It's society pushing people to a perceived brink such they feel there is no alternative.
We already see the effects of echo chambers and repected false narratives around the country. The repeated words leave some with the idea they must act because no one else will. J6 is a perfect example of having people see a perceived threat and following blindly through. Many school shooters point to some prior perceived history of some form of injustice and again feel they must act. We push people to financial ruin and again they perceive no help or escape. Maybe they felt wronged my their prior employer.
We literally do not see "mental health" patients running around like that. Sure there may be a small history but I would also point to lgbtq as well. The suicide rate is high because these people see no other out. They, including me, have spent years trying to meet society's expectations. We go into despair and for many that is their out.
You want things to change? Start by supporting and listening to each other. Let people know they are heard and listened. Give people an opportunity to open their mouth and express concerns. We need to create networks of people not barriers of walls. Legislatively, this gets to appropriate social safety nets and rebuilding trust in our government.
There will always be bad guys with guns but the answer is to give the bad guys a reason not to use them. Not more guns.
We need to fix despair.
I very much agree with this.
Despair is a mental condition based on belief, the belief that the world is not some way we believe that if it were that way it would make us happy. This is the source of the suffering and misery. I believe that belief is created by the inculcation in childhood of the notion that we are too worthless do be worthy of anything positive, a feeling so painful it has to be repressed. When life events conspire via some kind of life event that triggers that sense of failure, we will kill in the hope that making someone else suffer will make us feel better, that we have re-balanced the scales of justice. All of this killing will center around someone or something making us feel that deeply hidden feeling of worthlessness.
Fortunately for you, I also believe, you have suffered so deeply and climbed out of negativity so far it would simply be absurd, with all the evidence to the contrary, that you are actually worthless. Feeling, however, are difficult to change simply by reasoning. For me the irrational came in the night after years of despair, having lost all hope that life is good. I asked myself why do I suffer over and over again. Not this not this than what, deeper and deeper with pinpoint focus I went. A gust of wind hip my house, my conscious awareness shifter to me aware of the wind, and despair disappeared. I understood everything that I needed. To be alive listening to the wind is a beautiful thing. The mind free of a need for hope is a great place to be. It was everything I ever hoped for.
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