I don't believe you are the master of your own existence. Did you decide what to eat this morning, or rather is it the product of your habits and cultural force

I don't believe you are the master of your own existence. Did you decide what to eat this morning, or rather is it the product of your habits and cultural forces and family choices and genetically based preferences? IMO free will is an illusion, and this is part of the reason why stigmatizing mental illness is so pernicious. We say "get over it, everyone gets depressed" or we say "omg, I'm so OCD lol". Not really, though, these are complex neurobiological disorders that scientists don't understand well and doctors don't have great treatments for. If you're severely depressed or schizophrenic, your capacity to lead a normal life is vastly reduced, you can't even go through the daily rituals/motions that everyone else does. You become separate from society, and peoples' saying that you're rich, you're doing well, get over it: that makes it all feel worse. Add on top of that potential drug use, increasing suicide rates in society (we know they are contagious, it spreads like a virus), and of course the more advanced age of these recent celebrity suicides. So, are severely mentally ill people truly capable of living normal lives? Are they capable of making clear, level-headed decisions? I highly doubt that they were truly masters of their own existence if they decided they'd rather stop existing than suffer more illness.