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These are my thoughts, not directed at anyone in particular.
We live in a world of continuous change, 10 years ago, we did not have an app that could be downloaded to everyone on a phone to provide mindfulness, and we did not have screening tools on every website you search regarding mental health. With every year more and more tools are moving towards early intervention and more responsibility is given to the consumer to be able to make choices.
Practitioners need to balance that with the fact that with those changes, we see technology, drugs and alcohol addictions that are much more potent than in any other year. We live with backyards and outdoor spaces that have made us less connected to nature than we have ever been. Mental health issues for today are very different from the ones of 15 years ago. We also have a lot of access to information that without proper training can easily be taken out of context and be harmful instead of helpful. Few and fewer practitioners want to help these days because people want to be an expert without doing the training just because they spent a day on the internet and it met their confirmation bias criteria.
Everything we do these days is controversial and it is hard for people to not feel stressed all the time. Even when you do well such as following the rules, someone has to come along and question why you do it. Our civilisation is our own mental health enemy.
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