[JohnBooty]

Impossible to quantify, but my subjective sense is...

Mental health care is vastly better in the US than 30-50 years ago.

But I think society might be sicker, or at least people perceive it to be sicker. We said goodbye to the notion that each generation would have it better than their parents did. People don't have the faith in institutions that they once did, and they don't have the social connections they once had - as examined in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone etc.

I don't want to fall into the dumb trap of thinking that life in the 1950s or 1980s was some kind of utopia. It was still pretty much dog-eat-dog capitalism with not much of a safety net.