[user104658]

The reason I call it a catastrophe is that what we actually see is the tip of a massive iceberg... The vast majority of people who are in the opening stages of anxiety and depression have told very few people about it (if anyone), put on their game face every day so that it's not publicly visible, and certainly haven't sought any sort of help in order for it to be included in the official stats. Tbqfh I think if everyone who is internally suffering on a daily basis WAS to seek help... Mental health services would collapse over night under the strain. It's that bad. It's so bad in fact that I think we're probably on the verge of simply considering daily anxiety to be a "normal part of being human", which is just incredibly sad.