Mental Health and Society around the 60s and 70s…
In 1955, 560.000 people were treated in Hospitals in the US for severe mental illness, 67 years later in 2022 11.4 Million adults in the United States alone struggled with serious suicidal thoughts. But how can this number increase by so much? Surely things like social media play a role in this, but one of the main things is society. In the 1960s and 1970s mental health issues were not talked about and people did not believe in psychiatrists and mental health issues. Thankfully now, society is more open-minded and people are more aware of mental health issues and experience more and better treatment. Sylvia Plath was one of those people who got treated for her mental health issues in the 1960s and 1970s and in her book “The Bell Jar" she talks about her experience of struggling with mental health issues in those years. While she was still in New York for her summer program we started seeing the first signs of her mental illness, but it wasn’t until she came back home a...