There's an excellent book you might enjoy called 'The Madness of Adam and Eve' which draws the connection between mental illness and humanity move towards processed food. I'm not entirely sure ho much I buy the entire concept, but it's an interesting thing to ponder.

I agree pretty much with your assessment, but having the 'answer' to something doesn't negate the problem itself. I see society as forming either a helpful or unhelpful feedback loop and it varies. In the case of Naomi Osaka, I think the 'supportive' feedback loop was unhelpful. We must be very careful of over-infantalisation and over pathologising but still maintain our empathy without getting swamped.

I (somewhat controversially) subscribe to a diabetes model of mental health. I think there are plenty of people who have a genetic predisposition towards poor mental health due to brain chemistry, hormone disregulation, poor early years experiences etc... but I also think there's a type 2 - go to any decent therapist and they should ask you three things. Are you eating well? Are you sleeping well? How many friends have you got? Quite often people are quick to grab a diagnosis and don't have to put effort into those three things... far better to tell people you have 'social anxiety' and then don't work on it, than to actually overcome that anxiety (which is very hard). An overly supportive society is a co-dependent society for those people - and that's why a balance has to be struck. :o)