>70 years ago kids would regularly have nuclear attack drills (akin to our fire drills)
Yes, but the economy was doing better.
>Go further back and we get WW2
Before the war, most people were not expecting an apocalypse-level event that it was, and there were no nukes.
>These are all events that make any of our big-event concerns today look trivial.
You either underestimate today's threats and concerns, aren't affected by them, or both.
>Basically, I don't think you can attribute the skyrocketing rate of various forms of mental illness to better diagnoses.
That's what I said too. But it is a factor that must be accounted for, especially when comparing to the past when the statistics on mental health were not collected the way they are now.
Suicide statistics in particular.
>And if big-event stressors (as opposed to things like internet) were the main cause, we should be having far better outcomes than in the past.
This doesn't seem to follow from anything you said.
Yes, but the economy was doing better.
>Go further back and we get WW2
Before the war, most people were not expecting an apocalypse-level event that it was, and there were no nukes.
>These are all events that make any of our big-event concerns today look trivial.
You either underestimate today's threats and concerns, aren't affected by them, or both.
>Basically, I don't think you can attribute the skyrocketing rate of various forms of mental illness to better diagnoses.
That's what I said too. But it is a factor that must be accounted for, especially when comparing to the past when the statistics on mental health were not collected the way they are now.
Suicide statistics in particular.
>And if big-event stressors (as opposed to things like internet) were the main cause, we should be having far better outcomes than in the past.
This doesn't seem to follow from anything you said.