"Depression" is often just inability to adjust to depressing environment. In the most extreme case, prisoners in Nazi camps should feel depressed and I'd argue

"Depression" is often just inability to adjust to depressing environment. In the most extreme case, prisoners in Nazi camps should feel depressed and I'd argue that so should most of the people below the poverty line that's forced to be cogs in the depressing machine of capitalism. If my only choice was to be a cog on one of Amazon's warehouses, I'd rather choose to be a hermit, try shrooms and generally decline to waste life on doing silly things to enrich someone. If we discard true clinical depression where a young dude in perfect health feels suicidal in his own bentley, my approach to treat depression would be reading books that stimulate imagination, from Harry Potter to more exciting literature like Transcendental Magic by Eliphas Levi.