At what year did so many people become depressed and why? Did depression used to not be a thing?

At what year did so many people become depressed and why? Did depression used to not be a thing?

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I'm sure it's always been a thing. We know that the brain is chemicals and neurons and all that jazz and we know it's possible to have deficiencies in those chemicals, so it's not like that probably hasn't been a thing for human history. The question is whether or not it's being overdiagnosed now, with people feeling normal sadness but chalking it up to depression and being put on medication when they don't actually need it, because the medication is so readily available now, and whether or not there are factors in our changing society that are increasing the rates of depression/sadness.

Because people used to have self-worth and a sense of purpose in to their life.

Part and parcel of large interconnected societies, we lose our individual value. We're all expendable in the grand scheme of modern society.

This. The internet was an amplifier, so was 9/11 & the subsequent war on terror. Great Recession was the final nail in the coffin.

>pre-2001 : happy
>2001-2007 : content
>2007+ : depressing

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All true and anti depressents dont work. They should just prescribe illegal drugs those work better for depression.

> dating and committed relationships are getting even worse
> tons of chemicals in the food/water
> 24/7 bashing of white people
> xenoestrogens everywhere
> childless people everywhere

my 80 year old grandma agrees with me, it was when life became easy. You don't see someone who is trying to make it claim they are depressed just people that want a handout and don't want to work for it

Disruption of the Power Process

T. Unabomber

You used to just accept that life sucks and bear it silently or kill yourself. At a certain point doctors and drug companies realized they could sell you shit based on the idea that life shouldn't suck. Special snowflake media didn't help.

Some people used it and created works of literature. Like Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson. I think she killed herself though. But when you write something like 'Hope is a thing with feathers,' being happy simply isn't your thing

Depression is just nihilism
The only cure is Jesus

so the reason more people are depressed is because of inflation
we used to have buying power, ever wonder why liberals think its normal to have overpriced cell phones and new cars?
its because we used to be able to afford them, now the majority of america is barely getting by and its only getting worse.

t. brainless millenial

obviously the fact the median income has only improved by 4% while inflation has increased by 45% has nothing to do with it

Combination of being told when young that were all special we can do anything we want, have anything we want, and our life's have meaning.

With the rise of the internet/social media this allows us to display the best snapshots of our life's while viewing other peoples "Kodak moments" not truly displaying reality but always looking at life through a filter.

We know our moments are bullshit but for some reason we don't realize everyone else is doing the same thing.

Sprinkle in the fall of monogamy and children, you now have a generation of superficial, materialistic narcissistic people desperately trying to hide behind there online personas to live up to what life should be like.

world changed fast in the last 100 years, people are trying to catch up

I wouldn't say it's a product of comfy life, since a lot of people here kill themselves over miserable living conditions
But I guess it's a different for every culture, depression is not a joke tho, it will kill you in the end if you don't act

It was Nirvana, and the 90s in general. Nirvana brought pop-culture validation to depression. Where you used to be expected to shut up and carry on normally no matter how you felt, the 90s taught you to wear those feelings on your sleeves, and that it makes you a person of depth. It told you to say, "hey! everything is NOT alright! I am not alright!, I will never be alright! And that makes me more honest than you and therefore superior to you!"

I'll never forget driving in the car with my dad when Nirvana came on the radio. He said it was great music, but so depressing. He said music was never so sad before. Sure, there were breakup songs, but never anything so pained getting so much attention. It was very weird to him. And now it's become weird to me.

Since the 90s, depressing music, but particularly depression in general, has received more and more attention and acceptance, to the point where it's now seen as a strength instead of a weakness. Being depressed to the point where your daily routine is suffering and bringing attention to it shows more strength than toughing it out despite how you feel. You can see the result of this in boards like /r9k/ or /adv/ who know how to talk about how depressed they are, but have no concept of taking action to change. It's bad for society. Hopefully this will only affect the millenial generation, and the next generations will be a bit tougher.

Is it a thing in Africa?

Lack of economic opportunity

Insane taxation rates (at least in my country)

Because rate of depression increases the more you talk about depression. It's a mind meme a very effective one at that, but in the end depression is not real. You literally can just think depression away, you don't need drugs or specialists for help.

Just sort yourself out.

If you want to educate yourself, go look at stats about the rise of depression over time and compare it to the amount of anti-depression propoganda.

The diagnostic criteria has been loosened so a massive chunk of the population can be called depressed at any given time. This is largely because doctors need to give you a diagnosis to charge insurance companies.

Society is just soft and is unwilling to tell people that being a bit glum is perfectly normal and you're not supposed to be happy at all times.

I'm unsure if the actual incidence of depression in these times is unusually high or low.

Society, in my mind, is due for a rebound from its soft state.

Right now being mentally ill is just a privilege without responsibilities. Being mentally ill can, unless you are going for a fairly high level position, help you get a job, there are special recruiters that will help make a company more diverse by giving you some "neurodiverse" candidates. Being mentally ill entitles you to entitlements, especially in regards to medical, but also just in general.

This isn't to say being mentally ill is just a picnic, it tends to get you pity, but that doesn't mean people will want to date you, or they will want to make you CEO, or make you president. Many people really didn't choose the label of mentally ill and have been called that by others since childhood, and trying to escape the label is futile.
Still, the idea of getting privledges without any responsibilities is compelling.

Right now society is in a place where being seen as weak is, on the whole, better than being seen as strong. If you're strong and successful, your accomplishments will be downplayed. If you are weak and successful, you will be given more credit. Eventually, people are going to stop wanting to be seen as pathetic, and weak, and depressed, and mentally ill, and will just want to be seen as strong, and tough, and capable.

We're just at peak pity party right now where people are competing in the oppression olympics regularly.

I dont know about that early 90s late 80s seems to have a lot of depressed lost lonely generation type of people.

The increase in depression diagnosis probably happened around the same time as anti-depression meds hit the market.

It's a leftist problem. Think about it. Every day you wake up and the MSM has another huge story that for sure is going to get Drumpf impeached. Then as the day goes on and the fake news is exposed for being fake once again you realize he's not getting impeached this time. Tomorrow you wake up and go through it all over again. This daily ritual of ups and downs would depress anyone, i'm just happy it's happening to leftist scum.

It's because we've been conditioned to perceive the modern world as one of ample opportunity, where in we can relish in our first world priorities as well as create a sustaining livelihood for ourselves, in reality these factors are next to none in our brain's health. We have been fooled to believe that these facilitating activities, jobs, and consumer products would help us achieve happiness. Come to only find out that we are sadder than we were before because we've been tricked out of a healthy lifestyle and are stuck in a perpetuating cycle of consumption and regurgitation back into the cesspool we willingly accept to be our natural way of life.

And since the sexual revolution, fucking is easier to attain than ever. There was a well-crafted dynamic that played out in natural societies, once modern society rolled along that dynamic was pushed out of the way in favor of hookup culture and the practicality of one night stands. Men are finding it harder to pursue relationships or even develop a proper sex life because most other women have been amassing in armies of sexual deviants willing to fill the needs of a small category of men.

It is in the comfort of modern society that we were supposed to be safe and feel safe as well, yet the advent of newer technology has only led to more suffrage as children across the world are pulled into trafficking routes and grooming operations to fill the pleasures of horrible people.

We live in a world of drones and there are attention whores willing to scrape the bottom of the barrel and put whatever they got out of there into their mouths in order to craft a large fanbase.

But this is, as unreal as it may seem, the normality of human kind. Modern society is a work in progress and we happen to be on the early end of development.

Depression is essentially your body telling you that something is really wrong in your environment and you need to fix it or yourself rather than being content with fucked up surroundings.

An example is that most westerners are brought up and brainwashed by the state to be athiest when human nature craves god and logic demands god.

The cause? Now I'm not saying it's the Jews, but it's the Jews.

Nice pepe. Mind if I save?

Also does he have his shorts pulled down? I'm guessing he's about to give Wojak some high speed poo poo.

Deeper than that, pharma developed highly addictive mood altering drugs and overturned the entire psychiatric practice of medicine to revolve around prescribing them to as many people as possible. We're at a point now where most patients with depression take a cocktail of at least 2 antidepressants.

It's important to realize that these drugs cannot be tested for. There's no "brain chemistry" that an unhealthy person deviates from. When an antidepressant is prescribed, it's because of symptoms. When another interacting mood elevator is layered on top of that, it's because of symptoms.

I don't even like to drink and take allergy medicine, a solid chunk of the western world is walking around combining SSRIs with MAOI inhibitors.

This, read ISAIF

"Will Durant explains that certain pygmy tribes found in Africa were observed to have no identifiable cults or rites. There were no totems, no deities, and no spirits. Their dead were buried without special ceremonies or accompanying items and received no further attention. They even appeared to lack simple superstitions, according to travelers' reports"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_atheism


There were people at one time who wouldn't have even have known about the concept of a god thus making it impossible for them to believe in one.

>when human nature craves god and logic demands god.

simply not true.

Humans want purpose, we want to belong, religion fills that void, it doesn't have to be religion, it just happens that it is, maybe because it's the easiest, maybe because it's the most organised in providing the qualities we desire, likely a multitude of reasons why religion was and is so prevalent, it served it's purpose in the past, now we need to move on now that we know better and find something else to unify us and bring us purpose and belonging, what that thing is who knows, it's not immediately obvious yet.

>At what year did so many people become depressed and why?
Some time in 1972
A long long time ago
I can still remember how
That music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died
So
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die

If I had to reduce it to the simplest form it goes like this:
Person A: How are you?
Person B: Fine (not really) and you?
Person A: Also fine (not really).
Both persons thoughst: "Well, I guess it's just me."

>be depressed
>want to kill myself
>start taking estrogen
>get more depressed
>cry every day
>start taking anti depressants
>cry less
>estrogen slowly makes me look cuter (but still male), nicer skin
>have tiny boobs that are fun to play with

depression has always been a thing senpai

Social media doesn't help either, people only post the good things that happen in life, then we feel like failures by comparison. But we in turn don't see the bad in their lives when they are probably just as miserable as we are.

My mom is the Facebook junkie that always sees family members going to college, getting married, buying a nice new house, having kids, etc then is suprised when cousin Stacy gets divorced because she had it all going on in life. Then finds out Stacy never finished college, the baby was an accident, and they got married because that's what your supposed to do when you have a kid. Then I for 5 minutes look better because I didn't make all those shitty mistakes in life, but forgets that the next day when cousin Brittany gets engaged.

Social media is just a fake facade we build up make ourselves feel better about our miserable lives, and then other people who aren't as "happy" see that and feel worse by comparison.

Then we find a Sup Forums or Tumblr and see our own short comings are shared by others which amplify those feelings for better or worse.

TLDR: nuke the internet and make social actually social again.

>isolated tiny tribes of uncivilised little niggers are atheists therefore atheism is the norm

Nope. Brain scans and studies of people show that children naturally become theists at age 4 and for a person to become an atheist the brain exhibits activity identical to delusion: the brain is tricking itself into believing something it doesn't actually believe in.

This. Everyone wants to compare their lives to other's via social media, but you're only seeing their highlight reel. They aren't posting about all the times they sat at home and did nothing and no one called them. They aren't posting about the embarrassing shit that happened to them or the bad things they've done along the way. (for the most party)

Can you provide some evidence that everyone becomes a believer in god when they hit 4 years old.

b8

Sure. Summary and studies in vid

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ii-bsrHB0o

We became Robots /endoftthread

I'm fucking depressed

It's a consequence of modern morality and psychology.
>Sit down
>Tell me about yourself
>Why all this "misplaced" guilt?
>You have nothing to feel bad about
>OK, feeling great
>Fucked over all my friends
>Take advantage of my family
>Degenerate of the worst variety
>But I have nothing to feel guilty about
>Everyone tells me to feel better about life
>But I know this doesn't reflect how I actually feel
>Nor does faking a smile change reality
Conclusion: modern psychology is about making people feel "better." But sometimes people are not supposed to feel good. Acceptance of suffering is the only way. Any rejection of reality will manifest in other ways, like depression or anxiety.

this is eerie .. I feel the exact same way

bullshit.

kys degenerate

Kys

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The truth hurts I know. Stop living a delusion. You'll be happier

iPhones and social media , aka around 2007 everything became worse

But you sound like a brainlet desu

truth. when you're just trying to survive, you don't have the time or luxury to be depressed. once I had kids, I had a real reason to have to perform. self-absorbed malcontent had to take a back seat.

>asking before downloading a Pepe

How about you stop taking estrogen, accept that you're a fucking man and start acting like one. That's how you get out of this depression shit. Go outside, lift weights, do some manual labor. Stop sitting around crying and wishing you were something you can never ever be.

tiny tits or GTFO