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Mental illness is not just a personal problem, mental illness is also a social problem. When all of society is set up to get you to do stuff for them, and treat you badly when you don't perform, when you can no longer perform society will specifically make you mentally ill, with bad treatment as being a non-worthy human being. In other more social societies, and our society is extremely anti-social and sociopathic in how we use people, people that are no longer able to contribute are not made to feel extremely unwelcome, this goes a long way towards them not feeling insecure and turning to negative emotions due to their insecurities.

It's interesting in our society we have lots of tolerance for those born with mental illness or the ones permanently disabled. But we don't have a lot of tolerance for those down on their luck, or dealing with depression, or other mental issues. There is an implicit understanding that they should just get their act together and perform.