Lacking these gut microbes has been posited to lead to depression and effect mood by a few researchers:
https://www.science.org/content/article/evidence-mounts-gut-...
https://www.science.org/content/article/evidence-mounts-gut-...
My immediate thought was that people suffering from depression might eat more “junk food” due to the depression and that their poor diets might lay waste to their gut biomes. Of course, there may be other studies that contradict my hypothesis.