The disease burden of mental health is higher in the United States or France than in Somalia or D.R. Congo. There's a huge apparent paradox here - there's almost no correlation between economic development and mental wellbeing. Wartorn countries with no functioning health system have lower rates of suffering due to mental illness than some of the most prosperous countries on earth. Our society is geared around the assumption that development will make us healthier and happier, but that assumption isn't really supported by the data. However you slice it, our model is badly broken.

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