[mmt]

I have, and my worry stems from how many people proudly proclaim how much they relate to the persona[1].

Today, we have remarkably effective medications to treat depressive-spectrum[2] disorders, which are easily enough accessible to the affluent. The hope I espouse is that people do access them.

As much as I admit to being a cynic, I do believe that people are basically socially well-behaved, if not outright honest. Still, truly urban (as opposed to metropolitan suburbia), dense[3] environments appear to me to have a much higher concentration of those who aren't, so I avoid them in general.

[1] No protagonist, in my view

[2] If I may bastardize the Autism- term

[3] e.g. New York, of course, and, here in the Bay Area: San Francisco, Oakland, downtown San Jose