I read somewhere once that depression is caused from believing one is helpless, or hopeless ...feeling you have no control over your life. I also see that in our civilization, there can be a lot to cause someone to feel this way -- for example, having to labor in drudgery the majority of one's healthy waking life at a job one does not care about except for the pay and benefits, in order to accomplish what has been laid out for one to do by the social construct -- have a job like this, a house like that, clothes like this, children like that, a life like this, a car like that... ....it's like being herded through a cattle chute at a factory farm -- with no time or energy left for oneself -- to think your way out of it. I am autistic, and for me it was overwhelming. The stress wrecked my digestive system, which took my health down. I barely made it out alive. Now I am living off-grid, far far away from civilization, out in nature ....wearing what I want, eating food that's actually healthy, breathing clean air ....and working toward what my psychologist friend calls "healing into authenticity"-- becoming/being myself and working on creating something to give back -- my contribution. I'm not rich, as most who live off-grid are, but I learned that when you set your intent to do something, life opens the way ....like magic ------- something which has been stripped from our sterilized, linear brained, "machine mind" controlled world. For me, I had to get that back -- the magic and mystery -- in order to be happy.