Over the past decade, mental health awareness campaigns have expanded significantly across the Western world. These efforts, ranging from school-based interventions to high-profile celebrity disclosures, have reduced stigma, improved mental health literacy, and encouraged help-seeking (Sampogna et al. 2017; Schomerus et al. 2012; Henderson et al. 2017). At the same time, however, reported rates of mental health conditions—including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and s

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