More things are diagnosed as mental health issues and the criteria is a lot more flexible. Depression has escalated. Illegal drug use seems to be doing more damage. People don't seem to be as resilient and we have more admissions because of the fear of litigation if something happens.

interesting, eh? and I presume these are kids who possibly "benefited" from the current bonding ideology?

I shouldn't have made that comparison really because I don't think there is any connection apart from that the level of perfection expected in everything we do, including bonding at birth, has to have consequences when people can't meet those standards.

I'm off to bed 🙂

Just to add to my earlier comment, support networks don't seem to be as strong and we live more individual private lives, so people come to hospital for support and care which was possibly once supplied by the community.