Many things can help you to overcome feelings of depression. It is not an issue impossible to address. However, what certainly contributes to it, is social isolation. Therefore, the rampant individualization of western&#x2F;urban society badly exacerbates the problem. Nowadays, many people do not even have something like a wife or a husband. Gone are the days when people would share their lives with someone special to them. They are too immersed in hardcore individualism for that. Another issue contributing to the problem is the lack of spirituality. People often underestimate the therapeutic value of things like religion. Growing levels of atheism and skepticism concerning the meaning of life take away this resource and in that way prematurely terminate lives otherwise worthwhile to live. Medication can obviously do its part to assist with depression, but not on top of the ruins created by hardcore individualization and totalitarian de-spiritualization.