Emotional literacy is crucial and deserves our attention in the same way as numeracy and literacy

I often think.....

If we don’t wait until people are illiterate before we teach literacy, AND

If we don’t wait until people are broke before we teach numeracy and financial literacy, THEN

Why do we wait until people have a mental breakdown before we teach emotional literacy?

Things need to change in order to prevent more mental health burden for our society perhaps. 

Emotional literacy is crucial and deserves much more of our attention don’t you think?