Liberty is the mental equivalent of the air we breathe. Try to imagine the state of a body with no oxygen; that’s the state of a psyche without freedom. You cannot improve your mental health in a vacuum. Under dictatorship, psychotherapy (like all health care) is under control of the government; and mental health is defined as thinking according to how the Party wants you to think. Under freedom, your mental health is your own responsibility; and how you define mental health is largely up to you (and objective reality). As liberty diminishes, so does the possibility of the sanity and inner serenity that defines sanity. Self-esteem is out the window as your life revolves around service to the state — i.e., to your rulers.
The bigger and more powerful our government becomes, the more insane the people become. As liberty progressively diminishes in the United States, is it any wonder the psyche starves and the emotional wellness of the population deteriorates?