There are few countries in the world where mental health spending is sufficient to meet the needs of the population, because governments are unwilling to prioritize it. I wish for my psychiatric great-grandchildren to look back on this period as if revisiting medieval times, shaking their heads at how our society and medical establishment put so much thought and money into advancements in cardiac care or laser surgery or the wholesale replacement of vital organs, and yet did little to help people heal or rediscover their minds, inside and outside of institutions.
