There may be some wisdom in the tales of the Wild West.

By what I have gathered, someone there who would try to ply "depression" or the like might get shot on the spot. If not, he would be promptly got rid of some way or other.

Someone who felt bad, for some reason or other, would usually go either to the local bar or to the local priest — when such values were being formed that could be called American.

No one was clinically ill on a "bad hair day" ; the symptoms could be of someone's missing cows or horses, of a girl running away with another, of money lost on some hazard, and so on.

The reports nowadays (2000's) on persons, some misfortune by whom had been "diagnosed" as something other than the misfortune itself, could be taken with a good dose of natural skepticism.