#16 Why we should be hopeful about the future of mental health

Hi friends, 

If you’ve been a subscriber for a while, you’ll know that my main focus is to share that helps mental health organisations succeed. I want to create the best insights, guides and deep-dives that will help teams achieve the impact and commercial outcomes they want.

But this week, we are doing something a little different.

Instead of doing a company deep-dive or analysis, I want to talk about hope. Specifically, I want to show you why we should be hopeful about the future of mental health.

Hope is unfortunately in short supply for us sometimes.

Every day, we see bad news about mental health. Rates of illness are increasing, the sector is underfunded, providers are burning out and startups are failing.

We see the impact of it up close too, in our own lives. A loved one struggling with depression, a patient not responding to treatment, a health system that won’t support us trying to make it better.

It can grind us down.

However, I am an optimist. And so, I am hopeful.

My optimism is sometimes irrational - I just have a blind faith in our ability as a species to make things better - but there are also a bunch of very rational reasons to be optimistic and I want to share these with you today.

In this article you’ll learn why we should be hopeful about the future of mental health, the potential of emerging treatments, societal trends creating healthier behaviours, quiet cultural movements fostering better mental health and more about Tuberculosis than you ever thought necessary.

Let’s get into it.

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