mental health awareness

Perhaps not to the same degree it was maybe a decade ago, but yeah, it still is.

absolutely.

Only insofar as people use it as an excuse as to why they can't/won't do the things they are supposed to do.

For sure but it depends on the illness itself. I think ppl are pretty educated about depression these days but stuff like ADHD gets still stigmatized a lot. I had a girl in my class who made a presentation about ADHD and it was so wrong and just stuff like „ people have adhd when they need to bounce their leg all the time blah blah blah“