Couldn't it simply be the extreme stress everybody's been on? And the recent doom and gloom? I mean in my eyes the world has suddenly become nightmarish since 2

Couldn't it simply be the extreme stress everybody's been on? And the recent doom and gloom? I mean in my eyes the world has suddenly become nightmarish since 2020, first slowly but ever faster. I have to say this is probably tainted by my personal experience, I have MS and the stress plunged me into a deep depression (or at least, symptoms thereof), lots of chronic illnesses are sensitive to stress, and lots of chronic illnesses are triggered by stress.