[logicchains]

>we'd need to convince the likes of China and the Saudis (both major stakeholders) that they can come out from the rock they live under and accept modern psychological science.

Giving how overwhelmingly worse the mental health is of people, especially young people, in America, I can see why the Chinese and Saudis are so reluctant to accept western psychological "science".

[edrxty]

We're talking about two different things: the cause of mental health issues and the treatment of mental health issues. The US is pretty modern at treating them and pretty outstanding at causing them.

[hamhock666]

Yes but it seems like the treatment is addressing the symptoms and not the outstanding source of them as you say. We are slapping band-aids on an open wound

[1920musicman]

As a person who experienced both the symptoms and the treatment in the US I can assure you that it’s better to receive band-aid treatment than nothing at all.

Treatments could be—and should be—better, but comparing US to countries where psychological issues are being ignored and stigmatized is not to the benefit of the latter.

[1920musicman]

Ha, it's like saying there are no gay people in Saudi Arabia. If having psychological issues is extremely stigmatized by the society don't expect the stats to reflect reality in any trustworthy sense.

[wyre]

I would hope that the Chinese and Saudi's realize the youth in America's mental health is largely due to America's unique flavor of corporatacracy and the climate crisis. If you think this is wrong you either don't know or understand American youth or you're being willfully ignorant.

[za3faran]

What does the climate crisis have to do with the drastic mental health crisis that is present in the US/Canada? Genuine question.

[pseudalopex]

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/climate-anxiety

[parineum]

What's it like to do a young woman in Saudi Arabia or a young Muslim in China?

[SpaghettiCthulu]

That's completely irrelevant to what OP was saying.

[ceejayoz]

No, it isn’t. Mental health is a lot easier if you don’t care about large portions of the population.