What should “trouble” us is government involvement in mental health. All these ‘help’ phone numbers popping up every time there is a TV or radio report about some poor unfortunate who couldn't handle his or her life.

Another thing is, how much mental disorders are caused by governments. The Morrison hunt for Centrelink maybe or maybe not rorters comes immediately to mind - not to mention cost of living, mass immigration, imported terrorism, etc, all caused by the government.

And, as Australia becomes more authoritarian, we need to think about how long-term authoritarian countries have “disappeared” dissenters into mental institutions to keep them quiet.

Then there is the blackmailing of parents being told its ‘better to have a live daughter than a dead son’ if their child is suffering from sexual dysphoria, a mental problem, when the evidence shows that 2% or less of them commit suicide if their delusions are not satisfied.

Whether downright evil is behind the mental health obsession of not, it is certainly a big money spinner, as the author says. All at vast public expense; not just via the $50 billion and rising NDIS. GP testing, not just for mental problems paid for by the precarious Medicare system, has recently been raised by the government from twice a year, to four times a year. Where there is tax money to be had, there is graft and corruption. Over-servicing if you want to be polite, or "diagnostic expansion” as the author calls it.