Why is depression so common nowadays?

Why is depression so common nowadays?

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it's not, we just became bigger pussies muuuh feelings

the world is going to shit and it's really pushing down on people

This current generation has no backbone, everybody is too sensitive

Because it's trendy
Same with pretty much all kinds of faggotry. Just people looking for attention any way they think they can get it

These. Also, """doctors""" are over-prescribing things like autism and depression so they (along with pharmacies) can make more money

rehashed emoism

>Internet
>No real friends
>No close family
>Lack of faith

xenoestrogens turning the friggin plebs gay

Heightened dopamine leads to dopamine downregulation, leading to depression and apathy.

Basic psychopharmacology.

People have massive egos now, and often come face to face with ego-busting events, and because they were praised as children and not knocked on their little asses, they never learned self-reflection and how to be humble.

Ego is a function of dopamine. The more dopamine you have, the more ego you have.

because people are starting to realize they aren't special.

Can't blame them when everyone is too busy working to properly raise the next generation.

our waste water recycling systems fail to filter out xenoestrogens from the urine of women who take birth control pills, the excess estrogen caused by the pill is flushed into by the kidneys into their urine and from their it enters the drinking water

men and women have heightened estrogen which decreases testosterone levels which lowers motivation levels which causes depression

And this phenomenon was caused intentionally by the Jews

> the world is going to shit

overpopulation. people feel insignificant and replaceable because they are

>ID 9ay

Fuck what you said that pic is awesome.

We have more time to think about how shitty life really is. Back in the day, you worked your ass off just to survive, now most Americans are fat lazy excuses of human beings, who have more time than they know what to do with.

This has been my struggle for the last few years. I'm 22, and I realized a few years ago that despite what I was told I'm not special and there are a million other people just as smart as I am or smarter. Sup Forums and Sup Forums in general has helped me start to self-reflect.

It's not like humanity has been especially happy anytime in history.

-education systems are turning to shit (my school cut home econ, woodshop, autoshop, gardening, etc.)
-less relationships/people remaining faithful to their partner
-wasted potential of many things
-over population
-liberals/SJWs/cucks/whores
-seem to be less in person friendships due to diversity.
-this ^

-and this

these are my best guesses, though i am no expert on this.

Its not its just exploitable for both humor and shekels

Society has more problems and freedom of information than ever before.
>Society
While it's no surprise that society is going down the tube it has become more apparent. The distinction of apathy and pride are more noticeable than ever. You pretty much fall into 2 categories of you don't give a fuck or you give too many fucks. Unfortunately the first is the majority. Apathy has created a society in which those who would make a change are berated or isolated while the apathetic are considered "normal". This has created a division in society as well as a system that advocates societal stagnation. Many people are beginning to realize this problem as well as many other problems but it wouldn't be possible if not for.
>Freedom of information
Due to the staggering success of the internet we now have just about any information you could dream of right at our fingertips. The downside is that you now also have news from all around the world thrown at you all the time. It's very easy to get swept up in the negative emotions of the world when all you see on TV is violence and war. You can turn on any television and observe the world going to shit. This has cause a lot of people to "wake up" and start seeing the world for what it really is. The concepts that the world isn't fair and nobody really cares about you are hard to swallow. Once these things are realized the average person seems to give up because of the menial nature of success. There's no point to living a certain way or any way really if theres no pay off in the end. Modern society idolizes the few and leaves the rest to rot around them. If youre not one of the people on the throne you bet youre gonna be rotting around them. Many people are realizing the lies we were told of success and happiness.
>Conclusion
The two pronged assault on the mind of the average person is beginning to become too much to handle. Many people would rather cash out than suffer. The ones that cant cash out end up with depression.

We are built to be out there patiently hunting in the wilderness not being trapped in concrete overpopulates cities.

you obviously missed 90s and early 00s. emo whores were hot though

I'm really lonely.

We've become too detached from the environment we are evolved to exist in.

>family sucks and is obnoxious as fuck
>dad doesn't give a flying fuck about me, never taught me anything growing up
>mom was a psychopathic bitch
>friends are all degenerates
>work opportunities nowadays are awful
>college is a meme
>trades are a meme
>Western civilization is dying in front of our eyes
>people are getting dumber and tradition is dead
>only girl I ever really loved committed suicide
>best friend fucking died of cancer
>I can relate or talk to anyone anymore because of how much I hate my life and myself

Give me one reason not to kill myself. Most people don't have real depression. Real depression is having trouble waking up everyday and thinking about killing yourself every single second of the day nonstop, fantasizing about how you could die, and actually trying to go through with it all the time.

I've tried to commit suicide by ODing on pills twice in the past year. Didn't fucking work but I wish it did

Because the wide world is depressing, everybody is in somebody else's pocket and the media makes sure we all know it without providing a solution. They cover the same candidates each election even if they're objectively garbage. Being depressed is normal now if you have half a mind, although if you're strong you will rise above it, and strength is hated and hateful

I can't really speak for everyone who has been diagnosed with depression, but in my case:

>No academic field interests me
>No career field interests me
>No desire for a wife and/or family
>No desire for a big house, fast car, or any other status symbol
>No interest in hobbies besides browsing the Internet, playing the occasional vidya, and reading books

Life just doesn't feel like it's worth the effort. I wish I could just force myself to be interested in things that would motivate me to have goals and stuff, but I can't.

I've been on all sorts of antidepressants; even had a dozen rounds of ECT. Nothing really changed my mood or outlook on life.

I don't blame anyone other than myself for the state I'm currently in. I was raised in an abuse-free upper middle class household that provided all the support and love I could ever want, and I still ended up this way.

Social media is giving people the impression that your friends all have a better life than you. People usually post positive things and keep their problems to themselves. So when you log into Kikebook and see people living a sitcom life, it makes you more critical of yourself. I broke this cycle by leaving social media in 2014. Never looked back.

The world is going to hell and nobody wants to be saved.

The only honest answer to how the west can be saved involves alot of bloodshed.

jews

We're living in the modern equivalent to the Weimar Republic, we are Goebbels right now.

Pretty much sums it all up

Once people realized it's socially acceptable to be depressed everyone says they are so they can get pity points.
Furthermore, because it's now apparently so easy to be depressed people are telling other people constantly that they probably have depression, so it's just spreading like wildfire.

it's a sign of prosperity. folks have too much time on their hands and think themselves into a funk.

Good. It's not a struggle though. It's a growing experience.
I've been in the same place. I'm 32 now.
You just have to accept you're just a little shit, then realize life is all about learning, getting wiser, and tempering your ego.
Ego is the most dangerous thing to a man. It has a use, but it must be controlled. Be humble, but don't be a bitch.
Once you temper your ego, life goes on easy mode. You figure out ways to get everything you ever need without being a scuzball, asshole, or a mooch.

hahaa i wish i was dead guys
i'm so terrible
just a joke ahaha :)

The Despair Code

well i just need friends that's are like me that's what gets me down

looks like it's time for you to seek god lad. you're ready for it

study biotech, cant get internship because not black, brown, purple, yellow, gay, lesbian, octoplegic, transforklift or wear glasses

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This

Maybe it's the constant grind of life without making any tangible progress.

industrial society

>pic
tfw tf

Its not though.

Years ago, Men were described as 'moody', women as 'melancholic' or the like.

It was swept under the carpet, just like lots of other things.

I was prescribed Prozac for a while, it helped me through a bad patch. A hundred years ago I would have been slung in the nuthouse.

Glad I didn't top myself - I got to see Trump get in and Brexit . Nice.

That's just putting a band-aid on a bullet wound.
Religion will never help you truly find peace. It just replaces one type of ego for another, then adds on a touch of fear as a cherry.

You don't need god. What you need is to stop being an asshole.
>but I need validation!
No you don't. You need to find the cause of trouble in your life. It's almost always a family member, "friend"(not a true friend), or employment causing the problem. If your job is shit, find another source of income. Sell drugs if necessary. Work your ass off if you have to. If you're doing something you can enjoy, hard work becomes relaxing.

Guts over God.

What's the rush? You are just going to die eventually anyway

Daily Ratings Autism.
It's fantastic how consistent Fox News is throughout the night. There used to be a massive dropoff between ORLY and Tucker. Tucker is holding on to the Bill's demo ratings like he never left.

Dear user.

I'm keeping a little notebook of quotes from random sources on various subjects - the general theme is, I guess, 'the state of the world'. What you said seems to make a lot of sense to me, and
merits further research. So, i'm adding it to the book. I thought you'd like to know that. Thanks for the wisdom.

Yours faithfully,
user.

religions are for weak willed normies and are earthly control systems. I'm talking about the real deal. when you have the awareness of god in your life, all misery and fear fades away. there's no peace as long as you continue to live as a piece of meat

It's "look at me" generation.

Depression is a real problem for some people but the only reason it's bigger today is because people who don't really suffer from it cling to it just because they get a little sad once in a while.

Sorry, wrong thread!

>Welfare.
>Cheap food is plentiful.
>Degenerates can free hospital treatment.
>No warfare on the home turf.
>Free porn at your finger tips.
>Socially acceptable to be a slug and live w/parents into 30's.
>Sliding scale bus passes.

All this shit is easily accessible and manlets are still claiming to be "depressed." Grow up. This isn't fucking 1650's Europe. No famine. No serf life. No black death. No war. Get your shit together, bro.

youtube.com/watch?v=bjnvtRgpg6g

You need to work out a value system.

Good luck, friend.

Boredom, nothing to believe in, no value as individual in an atomized society, no serious bonds or family values. People stuck in limbo waiting for life to end.

and I can stay longer at home tho

then
>get decent job out of highschool, maybe go to college
>make decent living, buy house before 25
>meet nice girl, get married
>have a couple kids
>you and wife make a great team, each with your own strengths
>you retire at 55 and enjoy the rest of your life

now
>work minimum wage or close to it for the rest of your life or go to college
>graduate college with debt
>get a job that pays less than you were promised
>will never be able to afford a house, or if you do you will be raped with taxes, etc.
>most women are whores who will leave you
>women still expect you to "be a man" but they are allowed to not act like a woman
>they will take your house you cant afford and your children
>you will never retire and die from working too much or by your own hands in despair

hmm, I wonder why depression is so rampant?

Yea I agree. What's crazy though is that ego-boosting is almost ingrained in society.

I consider myself reasonably confident, but I'm also a realist. I know when I've done something spectacular and when I've done something mediocre or even poor. It makes me sick when I do something mediocre and have people try to boost my ego, "what a great job!", "that's incredible!", etc. It's like fuck off, no, I don't want your validation for this completely average result.

The majority of people having hyper inflated egos leads them to try and inflate other peoples egos as if it's the sincerest form of flattery or something. I find it repulsive.

zinc and omega to prefent this shit?

We created a world which we are not adapted to live in. We were not made for leisure.

I want something worth living and dying over, and preserving and restoring western ideals is probably one of the best things to out trying to defend. Depression hit me like a truck when I hit 20, and for the past six years I've been in an existential funk flowing between one job to the next and being in and out of college trying to find something worth doing. I want to go down fighting. I'm tired of squeaking by day to day. I don't want to go out with a whimper, I want to stand up and yell, I WANT MY LIFE TO MEAN SOMETHING. Where people can actively change the world, where government can and will be limited. No more spying on people, no more forcing itself into your daily lives. A world where senators and house reps will say "Man maybe we do need term limits on ourselves and we should quit gerrymandering districts too while we're at it." I want people to act like they have some goddamn common sense and quit running around with pink hair and a dildo in their pocket. I was an eagle scout for fuck's sake and here I am lamenting how my country is falling apart. The worst part is I know, I know, you know, we all know, we can't do anything since we're little people. In studying history I've figured that out. It's broken, it's going to be broken, it's always going to be broken, but goddammit we shouldn't just let it stay that way, it wouldn't hurt to try to fix things for the better. My depression is something I can't put my finger on, it's a lethargy, it's this energy draining weight that keeps me sedated. I take my soma and it only helps a little bit, enough to get up for work, but it's just not enough. I don't know what to do and this ranting and rambling is just making these feelings even more exacerbated. Helplessness. I was brought up thinking that you can take care of everything on your own, and coming up into adulthood I've realized that while I can care for myself, the world is far beyond what an individual can fix.

I almost certainly do, agreed on that.

I've never actually listened to Dr. Sort-Yourself-Out. Maybe it's time. Thanks.

That sounds a lot like that happened to me.

Were not evolved to live with so much stimulation.

But there is no god, so all you're just fooling yourself

>no interest in anything in life, nothing is worth living for
>thoughts of suicide daily
>too prideful to go with it and admit i "lost" in life
Goddamn wont someone just shoot me already?

>>no interest in anything in life
Can this really be true? What the fuck do you do all day than?

For all the depressed faggots here, just be happy for the happenings we are all going to witness.

Depression is common because people make happiness their greatness aim

Oh boy. This makes for depressing reading.

I don't know, but couldn't you have made this thread without some retarded normie facebook image? And on a more appropriate board?

Study for a shitty course on college and use the computer all day for this hellhole, a few vidya and anime. They are nice pastimes but they are not worth it, mere hollow escapism tools of my uselessness and powerless state, if i could get a heart attack right now it would be great

>Heightened dopamine leads to dopamine downregulation, leading to depression and apathy.

>Basic psychopharmacology.

>People have massive egos now, and often come face to face with ego-busting events, and because they were praised as children and not knocked on their little asses, they never learned self-reflection and how to be humble.

All true.

>Ego is a function of dopamine. The more dopamine you have, the more ego you have.

What an idiot claim

Probably chemicals in all that fast food shit people eat.

The Jews.

It's become to easy to survive. Or will only get worse.

College is generally problematic with it keeping you busy but not enough busy. Just wait for it to be over it gets better.

What is going to happen? The North Korea rhetoric will just continue for another 50 years

>What an idiot claim
Well it is more complicated than that, yes.
But the main driving force behind motivation and self-realization is dopamine agonism. People with high dopamine tend to be more motivated, and more selfish. They also tend to have mania or outright psychopathy. Think Trump and Clinton.

You take that much ego and you compound it with no experience for failure and humility, and you get ready-made depression and/or "spoiled brat" syndrome.

>poorer and poorer financial prospects for the average person
>costs of eveyjing continue to increase
>rampant government ineptitude with no change in sight
>internet and social media drive shallow relationships and one-upmanship

Because the world honestly fucking sucks and we have every reason to just neck ourselves. Now that we live in peace and comfort, we realize that there really is nothing worth struggling through the hellhole of an existence for.

Why chase the fleeting splinters of happiness when unbearable pain and suffering is a constant background noise? It makes no sense.

Makes sense. My dopamine system is fucked up and I hardly have a sense of self or an ego.

Jews. What else would it be, everything bad is the jews fault. Or at least caused by shit they did like destroy our culture and turn women into (((career women))) so they end up living with 40 cats after getting plugged by hundreds of guys.

This. People who really suffer from an ilness don't boast about it 7/24.

Life seems dull
It's always the same old shit
I just can't wait for everything to get nuked

Despite technological advancement and comforts, modern life is bereft of what made life meaningful for most humans throughout history.

Most men long for a sense of brotherhood and belonging (something you can't complain of its absense without coming across as a pussy) a chance to gain in power and respect and a lifestyle that would make them physically fitter. Many are also disillusioned by how out of shape women are, which leads to extremely high competition for the women of anything like normal weight left. The above combine to destroy motivation and any sense of satisfaction in life.

Women are no happier: most men even if not as obese as women are lacking in manly vigor and drive because chronic stress and inactivity are sapping the life out of them. Women were never happy with the average man but because of how spiritless the average man is today women want to stray more than ever.

Basically modern life is rubbish.

People don't know their station in life. Too many morons with big egos expecting the world. That depresses them and those around them.

You are right, but ego is more a product of your psychology rather than your neurology. Your dopamine level of course effects your psychology immensely but it can't make you an egoist alone. It can have the exact opposite effect if your psychology is formed in a manner that identifies you/your ego with a lack a dopamine or something in between.

Lack of need for survival behaviours in modern life. We have no visceral need to "survive" anymore. We don't feel intense hunger or pain or fear etc. we just mull along. Our minds eventually become numbed by this over time and we lose the value in life. If you were in the middle of a forest and had to build your own shelter, find your own food etc. you wouldn't become depressed. Ironically it's the "easiness" of life that leads to depression.

there's no fooling yourself when you see the absolute truth pierre. I'm not talking about some mental process or logic, none of them have power over you when you transcend the intellectual mind

god is not some bearded men in the sky, god is all. the known and the unknown combined but the mind fears the unknown

seeking hapiness is a kike lie. that's not why you're here for. you're here to experience, that's all. good and bad are made up human concepts. don't judge the experience, just live

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide

When will normalfag memes of this be made?

How does one sees this absolute truth?
>inb4 dmt/lsd/meditation

Teaching nihilism and self loathing in school

I mean isn't it pretty fucking obvious

>over-prescribing things like autism

I think you mean over-diagnosing user

tfw