Mental health in modern times

Michael Sultan looks at the impact the events of 2020 have had on our wellbeing.

It is interesting to think that true understanding of mental health is still a relatively recent concept – something that is continuing to develop and change at an astonishing pace. Indeed, in the not so distant past, mental health still held a huge stigma, and those who were suffering from mental health conditions found themselves segregated in asylums or cast out of society.

Thankfully, times are changing, and in the last decade understanding around mental health has come leaps and bounds. Psychological conditions entering the spotlight has helped to open the conversation and make it clear that we all have mental health problems at some point in our lives. This is normal and nothing to be ashamed of.

Now the world is reacting to mental health in a way that is more attuned to helping individuals than ever before. Indeed, today it is far more common for someone to have received therapy, with some sources stating that British people are now heading to therapy sessions in record numbers.