Because mental illnesses are a throwaway diagnoses for the doctor to say "nah, whatever, this is on you, think healthier and go take a pill for your symptoms we

Because mental illnesses are a throwaway diagnoses for the doctor to say "nah, whatever, this is on you, think healthier and go take a pill for your symptoms we won't be doing any more diagnosis". It seems much more likely that things like sleep disruption, persistent inflammation(gut dysbiosis, misc infections), metabolic disturbance(brain isn't getting enough energy to do its job) are causative of depression which manifests as reduced tolerance to stressful life events and ability to manage one's life, to me. But instead we get the thought-terminating cliche of "depression causes everything else, so just go to therapy and stop looking for health problems"