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Major Depression was epidemic in the US back in the 90s, which prompted the SSRI boom. The problem was that few were ready to acknowledge the toxicity of normal post-industrial life, especially as the Soviet Union was collapsing and Reagan and George H. W. Bush were deregulating the work environment bact to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
So yes, the dissolution of the middle class and rise of wealth desparity were already concerns, but social media wasn't yet a factor. This isn't to say it's not a factor today, especially when we use social media as an alternative to actual social contact.
The psychiatric sector is now recognizing we can't treat people using the standard medical model, assuming people can be treated while still in a toxic home and work environment. It would be like treating a kid for asthma while he was living in the Los Angeles smog crisis; there's a limit to how much treatment can help in those circumstances.