I honestly think that the way Western cultures (and a lot of other modern cultures) think is partly why depression and anxiety are on the rise.

Tribes that live in harmony with nature don't think of themselves in "third person" very often. They are just in a state of flow with nature. Whereas in modern life we are thinking about our egos (our third-person image of ourselves that we think of as our individual selves) far more often. I think this is why even when talking about mental health it often reinforces that way of thinking.

Ego doesn't have to mean being narcissistic or even grandiose. Someone who is self hating is very ego-centric because they're constantly looping back their consciousness onto their self image except in a negative way.

The solution is not to loop your consciousness further except in a positive way. The solution is more to stop the loop and to instead direct your consciousness outward, to become "first person consciousness", focusing on the experience rather than how you think the experience relates to your self image.

I feel this because I had a spontaneous recovery from an eating disorder and anxiety disorder after an "ego death" experience.