Ishan Shivanand argues that mental health has become a genuine crisis since 2010, worsening after COVID-19. He dismisses generic fixes like exercise and socializing, calling instead for ancient practices adapted to modern life. Much advice comes from people who've never faced serious mental struggle.
We are going through a mental health crisis in the world today. If you study the graph of mental health around the world, in every country, you will find post-2010 and especially post-2020 after COVID, mental health has become abysmal. And at this time, what do we do? Do we ignore this crisis or we start to explore new ancient methodologies that can be implemented to help people. Many times when I'm talking about mental health, then people say to me, oh, mental health is easy. All you need to do is go to the gym, exercise, have some friends, walk in nature, and things will be all right. And generally, people that are giving the advice are the ones who have not been through a mental health crisis on their own or the ones who don't know much about mental health.
