Flag - yes, I do agree that there has always been a taboo and that the stigma has kept many mentally ill people from talking about their problems or getting medical attention. I also agree that the medical community has learned a lot in the past few decades and brought more attention to the seriousness of mental illness.

However, I also wonder if the evolution we see, leaps in technology, etc. makes more of us sick. It's that Maslow's hierarchy playing in...if we were more concerned with pure survival, maybe we would be too busy finding food to worry so much.