Prior to COVID mental health wasn't even discussed in the mainstream, during COVID lockdown there was an attempt to bring it forward but with no visible results. I belief people were getting help by psychology therapists but not willing to talk about it. In my personal experence, if you have mental health issues you are seen as weak or crazy, so you wouldn't talk about it and when you do it's likely you ear "take some pills, that you get better", and people (even friends and family) vanish "to give you time to recover". If you have a lifetime diagnosis unfortunately you're seen as disable. My partner was diagnosed with OCD: after I "diagnosed" him, I was hable to find him a OCD specialist psychiatrist who gave him a diagnostic. But mine is proving to be more difficult: "You're an intelligent person, you're just tired, you're just confused, you just need to put your mind in order." And meanwhile I can't leave my home alone, I'm struggling with agoraphobia, and even that is being dismiss. But that's my personal experience and I do not dare to speak for an entire country as I truly want to be proven wrong.