Recently I watched a documentary about how Yankee psychiatrists prescribe Xanax, antidepressants and other psycho(dys)active crap to everyone. 
Also, this trend has come to Europe. So I decided to shed some light on this problem.
Depression as a pathology is a very real condition. Probably the times have passed when some smart psychologist would say something like “Your problems are a childhood trauma,” etc., etc. All this is nonsense, of course, and has nothing to do with depression. But let’s leave such statements aside as completely primitive and look at what modern educated psychologists and psychiatrists consider depression to be, a quote from one textbook on treating depression in children:
“Etiology. The causes of depression are not fully understood .
Depression can be caused by a combination of both external factors
(stressful events, family relationships, relationships with
peers) and internal factors (physical health,
genetic predisposition and biochemical disorders).”
I will translate into the language of smart people , - “Depression? I don’t know what it is, but we’ll try to treat it now”:
“Currently, modern foreign guidelines
recommend antidepressants from
the group of selective SSRI reuptake inhibitors as first-line drugs .
Fluoxetine
has proven clinical efficacy for use in childhood
(from 8 years old).” The reasons are not fully understood, but it works, so let them drink and try to enjoy life. This is approximately the logic of doctors . 
To say that it is flawed is to say nothing. But oh well, it is on the conscience of doctors and also on the conscience of the owners of pharmaceutical companies. I will tell you about the real reasons for this condition:
In short, the cause of depression is mostly neuroinflammation. I am writing and remembering how one young lady doctor proved to me that such a concept does not exist. Well, somewhere in her university it was not and of course it is not, but in general it is
Neuroinflammation is inflammation inside neurons of the central nervous system. Or inflammation in the brain. The brain is a delicate thing, the inflammation processes there differ from similar processes, for example, in the skin. For those interested in details in Russian, I will leave a link below.
What causes neuroinflammation? Roughly speaking, the main causes are infections and toxins.
Regarding infections, these are often herpes viruses. But man-made covid and its S protein have been added to this list (hello vaccinators 
). Therefore, I give free advice to psychiatrists - try giving patients Valavir instead of antidepressants
Regarding toxins, everything is complicated, or rather there are many different toxins. Alcohol and drugs are obvious to everyone, but there may also be heavy metals (hair diagnostics and chelation); as well as less obvious things, such as phthalates and mycotoxins (complex lab tests and detox therapy), etc.
Regarding stress and head injuries, all of this also leads to neuroinflammation, but in my opinion these factors are not constant, so they should be considered as exceptions.
We all have stress, to say that it is the only cause of depression is primitive, but we can say that a decrease in stress resistance leads to neuroinflammation and depression. And low stress resistance is found in people with poor immunity, for example, those who are on crazy diets, on alcohol, work a lot at the computer, do not sleep at night, etc. Remember this
The topic is extensive, but I think I gave information “where to dig” without taking harmful antidepressants and other useless advice from doctors.
https://habr.com/ru/post/425575/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33181270/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34233151/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30054585/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31207234/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32564518/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34917530/
