> There are a ton of things that cause depression, and often psychiatrists just prescribe an anti-depressant and off you go, especially in countries where doctors have an incentive to medicate people instead of curing them.
For what it's worth: toxic work culture (=absurd amounts of overtime, lack of mandatory PTO, lack of legal protections for people with mental health issues compared to those with physical health issues) makes it often impossible to actually cure people, not to mention global impacting issues such as unaddressed climate change, the lackluster response to the pandemic or open warfare.
To actually remove these contributors or causes of depression and other mental health issues, we'd need a society-wide reform.
For what it's worth: toxic work culture (=absurd amounts of overtime, lack of mandatory PTO, lack of legal protections for people with mental health issues compared to those with physical health issues) makes it often impossible to actually cure people, not to mention global impacting issues such as unaddressed climate change, the lackluster response to the pandemic or open warfare.
To actually remove these contributors or causes of depression and other mental health issues, we'd need a society-wide reform.