Everybody involved with mental health is sick. Especially when the healthiest thing I can do would be going outside, but I cant without police harassment. And I am an extremely attractive person who dresses well. Seems like a societal problem.

1. People are paid to find topics to publish. Whether you are a media person that is forced to find something to write about to buy bread or you are a researcher that needs to show results. You are looking for anything with any value that can be put out there and create some traffic.

2. For any piece of research, you don't get from zero to hero immediately. You first find a correlation, then it takes time to gather some more facts and maybe, if you are lucky, find causation.

Nowadays, if you are waiting for the whole proof, you are already late. Somebody will publish it before you and by the time it really is ready to publish, it is old news.

If you are homebound due to illness or disability, this may be true.

For other groups of people, this is unlikely to be true. Stay at home parents likely have a full day of work taking care of a child or doing house chores.

Being unemployed doesn't mean that you have endless amount of free time either. Applying for jobs and preparing for tests and interviews is itself a full-time job or close to it.

Action is required to overcome depression, even if its just action to seek help.

Easy access to anything that can alleviate bordom (including TV) is going to increase the chances that someone is stuck in depression.

Being sedentary absolutely does worsen my state, too, but let's be honest you're not gonna do much else when you're dying of exhaustion and malaise.