There have been plenty of recent examples of male pilots having a breakdown in the cockpit
Horses for Courses. When I experienced a divorce in mid-career, a sympathetic Management offered me time off, no doubt thinking along present day lines, but I refused on the grounds that whilst my personal life appeared to be going out of control, my job was the one stable thing that I had command of, and enjoyed, and to be denied that as well would have really sent me into depression.
Commensense prevailed, I wouldn't want to have to fight the Huggy Fluffies of today.