[danharaj]

I think the solution to your dilemma is that we have a shared responsibility for each others' mental health. Indeed, isolation and alienation are part of the cycle of depression and breaking it necessarily means relying on others for mutual support and aid. Emotional labor is an often underlooked and undervalued aspect of human relationships. Performing it for each other is one way in which humans support each others' well-being. Depression and anxiety, as problems of environment aren't of the Human and Nature variety, but the Human and Human variety. A person that is depressed has lost the ability, or never had it to begin with, to regulate their social environment. To be quite honest, most of us don't have that much control over our own social environments. It is too costly, too risky to live a life too far off the beaten path. The structure of our society determines what social environments are easy to achieve and maintain and which ones are difficult, and for whom it is easy and difficult.

This can explain why the rich suffer from depression too within the environmental framework. Material wealth usually implies being embedded in a particular part of society, and there's no reason why that environment which is good for making money is any good for one's personal health. It is for some people, not for others. One example in recent memory is Notch, the creator of Minecraft who became a billionaire for it, but a few years ago lamented how socially isolated it made him.

Human beings are fundamentally social creatures. It is often the case excepting physiological disorders that mental disorders are social disorders. No particular feature of our societies' structures is completely fixed. Our relationships are radically different today compared to 50, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000 years ago, and yet our brains have the ability to adapt to such changing circumstances. It's clear however, that what is tolerable for some is intolerable for others. Social problems manifest first as individual problems amongst the most vulnerable. The rising tide of mental disorder is a rising tide of social disorder.