Difficult to disentangle the fact that the n-grams talking about these topics have become highly profitable as an industry unto itself. Not just click bait and

Difficult to disentangle the fact that the n-grams talking about these topics have become highly profitable as an industry unto itself. Not just click bait and doom scrolling of recent years but the books, TV shows, and especially medications that talk about and claim to address the ill effects of modern life. Prozac Nation was published in 1992. Oprah was launching in 1986. People have been getting paid and made focusing on these topics in ways it’s difficult to find a historical precedent. And let’s not forget that depression as a medical condition was marketed by a Pharma company with the first SSRI cleared by the FDA in 1987.