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>it can happen to anybody, also for physiological reasons or in result from other challenges, like injury from an accident making you depressed, and so on. It's an insidious problem.
You're right. When people go through big life events, their emotions change and sometimes that can be difficult to manage in the short term. This is a real phenomena, and a completely normal and natural response to something horrible (e.g. losing a loved one).
The problem is that we try and pathologize this and call it an "illness." You don't get "mentally ill" when a family member dies, you get sad. Prolonged sadness to the point where it impacts your ability to function in society is depression, which is a very ambiguous word. Depression is not something that just "happens," it's always a response.
Somebody with the ability to self author understands when depression is coming in, and recognize that they need to act a certain way to return to their, subjective, normalcy.
>The best precaution and cure is good social safety net or support network, like family, and with this massively lacking today
This is true, we live in a profoundly unique time because we have completely rejected religion. There's a reason why religion was important to the social fabric of every society. Reject religion, introduce degeneracy (we are here), things get bad, then religion is adopted again. This cycle has repeated throughout all of known history.
Your problem is that you have too much faith in the institution of psychiatry.
A good psychologist can be life changing to some because they understand that humans operate at different levels of cognitive function, a bad one can be immensely damaging because they lead you astray and tell you that you are completely fine.
There's a reason why women are more likely to seek therapy.