Early morning awakening as a sign of depression?

Depression is a broad economic malaise, and "depressed" people are often addicted to heroin or laudanum or methadone or other depressants, and most typically alcohol in social settings.

This happened beginning in the 1920s with rampant opioid addictions, loosely and sporadically enforced Prohibition, and other organized crime activity which led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression which lasted through the Second World War.

Theories of "chemical imbalances in the brain" indicate a party animal lust on the part of corrupt doctors to prescribe more and more mind-altering chemicals to unwitting patients — as opposed to the "animal spirits" of John Maynard Keynes which would cure a broader economic depression. Depressed people often do have money problems in an individual sense. And problems with wealthy and overpaid head shrinks who insist people can be happy without money and without the choices, necessities and luxuries in life that money affords.

People who habitually wake up early in the morning are not usually "regulars" at the bar or tavern late at night, (assuming they get adequate sleep,) and if they do socialize late at night, they do so less often, and they may appear sleepy or sad or withdrawn or uncommunicative to that crowd when their usual bedtime approaches.

Waking up one hour earlier than usual may reduce depression risk - Harvard Health

New research suggests that people who wake up an hour earlier than usual, without sleeping less, may reduce their risk of major depression.…

Harvard HealthMatthew Solan

If you're a morning person or if you have something to do in the morning, sure, get up, eat a good breakfast and be on time for it, but I'm not up for the 6am blue-pilled C-level business pep talk.