I was thinking about this today too
Probably many on the board, know me well enough by now to know my history of anxiety, depression etc
I actually talked to a doctor at one point who said what a struggle it was for them knowing the risks if a patient doesn't feel they're getting enough help, but also feeling that the help is going in a direction that doesn't benefit the patient. If you encourage that belief that someone can't do stuff, with a young adult especially, are you condemning them to a life where they have no belief in themselves to do ordinary things?
My best friend has seen me over more than two decades, with what was often a massive struggle just going to work. She made the observation that everything in our culture being so incredibly negative would have made things different for me. You could argue that in my age group, we were surrounded by the idea that anxiety and depression makes you a weak person - I disagree, but it depends if you know about Churchill problems and other peoples problems I guess.
The culture of constantly talking about it isn't helping. Anigail Shrier has written a very good book on this, but that's mostly about schoolkids.
The trouble is, I don't know how as a society we can wind that back.
YouTube suggested some nonsense to me today about storing trauma in the psoas. By all means give your psoas muscles a good stretch! But the idea that you could be storing trauma in there - what?!
To cap off my "random crazy points of the day" I actually know a woman who does spiritual healing. Yes, really! She doesn't charge - she has a very corporate day job!
Anyway, she is increasingly finding that people approach her asking for healing, but what they actually need is a doctor. She always has a long phone conversation with them before agreeing to see them. She she said some people haven't even thought about going to see the doctor for their shoulder pain or whatever. They make their initial enquiry being quite convinced that some kind of normal life upset, reframed as trauma, is presenting itself in the form of pain.
World's gone mad!