I agree mental health issues like depression are disabilities that can prevent one from keeping down a job. We should support and treat people with depression a

I agree mental health issues like depression are disabilities that can prevent one from keeping down a job. We should support and treat people with depression as a society. But I think at least for mild depression, living off welfare and not having a job can make things worse and spiral into major depression. From personal experience living in Scandinavia, anxiety and depression are known as easy reasons to get on disability pay and stop working. Of course these are real issues in many cases. But there are people who don't suffer from them and use them as an excuse to get government pay.