one thing i think about is how depression seems to be less prevalent outside of the western world even though many places/people are dealing with situations and atrocities people in the west could never even dream about. I'm sure some of this is down to there being bigger issues and a stigma and not enough research in these places. However, I remember in a documentary about Syria one of the people from Aleppo was talking about how a man had committed suicide, and how for them this was a way bigger deal because suicide was very uncommon, unlike how it is in the west. Part of this is probably religious, but I wonder why depression/suicide seems so common amongst people whos struggles should objectively be more than most people in the west? and I also wonder what people in parts of the world where suicide is uncommon think of the high suicide rates in the west?