In the last few decades, there has been an increase in the amount of people turning to mental health services. People usually say the reasons are wage stagnation, rise in cost of living, the abandon of the traditional family model, loneliness resulted by long working hours, housing crisis, etc.
but there is one thing no one ever talks about that can actually be the leading cause for it, and it's the transition from agriculture and manufacturing industries to the service industry. The explanation is quite simple. People deal with mental health issues because their jobs are mentally demanding, just like people in the 1800's suffered from physical conditions for working in physically demanding jobs. It's an industry that involves lots of mental violence, humiliation, harassment, insults etc. After getting insulted so many hours a day so many days a week, workers are more prone to make mistakes that cost the economy lots of money and contributes to their decreased feelings of self worth.
I don't know how viable it is, but I think that in order to solve the mental health crisis, the western world should find a new industry to revolve its economy around, or, pass labor protection laws in the service industry, so the workers aren't completely exploited.
What do you guys think?