It’s also incredibly difficult for people with mental health issues to simply get advice to try to “pull themselves up by the bootstraps” by improving their lifestyle when so much of their mind is working against them.

Combine that with the fact that hyper individualism is a big factor for loneliness, (and social media is a poor man’s substitute for socializing) and with loneliness being one of the biggest factors in poor mental health, what we have is not just people with problematic lifestyles (exercise, diet, sleep, social support, financial health, purpose) but also a life structure (overworking, drinking, shopping, doomscrolling, etc.) which makes it all too easy to fall back into old patterns of a poor lifestyle.

What’s crazy is expecting people with poor mental health to just “fix themselves”. Some may be able to, while others will struggle with it their entire lives without proper support and societal guardrails.