Mental Illness

I reckon if you plotted (over a century or two) the relationship between average family size (no of kids) versus the rise of mental illness (depression and anxiety) you’d find a pretty good correlation. My view is that with less kids, we become more focused on their individual well-being, hence they are are at the centre of their own universes, then they get more disappointed with reality as they get older as it becomes obvious that they are not really at the centre of anyone else’s universe (outside of their parents).