I have been a Psychiatric Social Worker for 54 years starting in the field in 1968 at Kings Park State Hospital on Long Island, New York State. In over a half a century, I have been a witness to extraordinary changes in the mental health system in New York State and the country. Currently, there is constant media attention to a mental health crisis for children and adolescents in this post pandemic era. On May 14, 2024 Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University, posted an opinion video at the New York Times entitled
Good point about the peanut allergies. Another example is the gluten hysteria and the vaccinations cause autism nonsense.
I think the widespread hysterical peanut allergy of recent years if of the same phenomenon.