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There's an argument that Japanese people don't accept being medicated as much as people in US/EU, which, combined with very supportive parents, means that the depressed people just stay home as shut-ins instead of trying to function on anti-depressants, as they do over here.

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"The country doesn't believe in treating a debilitating disease" is not my idea of a Utopia.

[xenihn]

>instead of trying to function on anti-depressants

Or amphetamines, which are very illegal in Japan.