Trump's executive order aims to dismantle social care while expanding policing and exploiting public disillusionment regarding mental health. Despite high spending on psychiatric services and medications, mental health issues in the US have worsened over the past two decades. Increasing rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide indicate a failure in the current system, which prioritizes medication over addressing root causes like poverty and trauma. Trump and Kennedy propose controversial reforms that threaten existing public care infrastructures and revive discredited practices such as confining individuals in asylums.
Despite spending more on psychiatric services and prescribing psychiatric medications at a higher rate than almost any other nation, mental health in the United States over the last two decades has only been getting worse.
No quantity of psychiatric drugs or hospitalisations appears adequate to reverse these trends.
This failing status quo has created an opening for President Donald Trump and Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy Jr's emerging plans to remake the nation's approach to mental health.
They focus on the threat supposedly posed by psychiatric medications and call to reopen the asylums that once confined approximately 560,000 people.
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