Aspects of the culture we all live in and take for granted contribute to the high and seemingly growing incidence of mental health problems in the population so unless these aspects somehow change, mental health won't improve. (and those aspects won't, because many of them are like game theory, where because most people do something, you are then forced to engage in the same thing if you want to not fall behind them or feel inferior, and if you tell yourself you don't care you are just suppressing your awareness that you actually do care, which leads to dissociation). Ever growing competition for resources like desirable jobs, housing, college places, desirable partners, and, for women, trying to have both a family and a career (something which they feel the need to have now, rather than the choice it may have felt like a generation ago) and ever higher bars for what is a normal and therefore acceptable level of achievement. If we all want to have better mental health, we should all, every one of us, put our hands up and admit to each other how imperfect we all are and how sick we are of feeling not good enough and denounce anyone who tries to make others feel inferior to them - but again, game theory, that will never happen, as some will choose to take advantage over others, thereby forcing more to try to preemptively do the same thing back in a mindset of distrust and retaliation. Add to all this the constant stream of information which conflicts with the imperitive to have constant economic growth eg. about climate change, resources running out, and it's enough to drive anyone mental. Not to mention the lack of any sense of a higher purpose and the clearly bonkers culture of the last decade. I rarely hear anymore the same explanations for depression I used to hear around 2008-2012 ie. 'chemical imbalances' - so at least people have since realized that the fact everyone seemed to get depressed around that time wasnt due to some random chemical thing but was induced by many cultural factors which affected people around then