I would say that 90 some percent of us are depressed because we live in horrible situations, and the only help we are offered is, to just take it, just keep taking it, here have some more, just take it, remain calm, cause all the shit you have to go through doesn't matter to the world, and really it doesn't.  And the people we love and are trying to care for, who depend on us,  are used against us, we are punished daily for loving and wanting to care for family members, guilted into remaining in a life that is starved for anything satsifying, starved for being able to wake up and be free to live as we truly want, unable to earn our way out of working at horrible jobs, unable to obtain love from others around us.  This life is a big cesspool, and 80 % of waking time is spent in misery.  we try to find ways to make ourselves happy, things like meditation, exercise, correct nutrition, medication.  The problem is not going to fixed by any of these things,  It's like our house has termites, and we're being told to ignore them, to meditate and that will make it better somehow, to excersise, to eat better, to take medication,  none of that shit is going to fix the fucking termite infestation, and the house is going crumble around you eventually, but if you're living paycheck to paycheck, barely enough money to eat, there's nothing you can do about it, even though you are still paying the mortgage on that house, just to get to live there.