What is causing everybody these days to be depressed...

What is causing everybody these days to be depressed? as many as 1 in 3 people will experience depression at some point in their life.

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social media showing everyone how incrediably average they are. It used to be that you could be the best x in your town, but not any more, you can go online and find a million people better at x then you

So the internet is to blame?

just as a tool to shatter narcissism and dunning kruger

9/11, economic recession, the presidential race being between she-satan and an orange meme
There's nothing to feel optimistic about. Technology exists to put people out of jobs and spy on us. Space has been defunded, literature / movies / art / etc all pander to the lowest common denominator and that denominator has never been lower. The only people optimistic about the future are children who have never known anything other than "the new normal".

Because almost everyone is retarded.

I also believe 'depression' is mainly a meme so big pharma can sell more pills.

In fact it probably sells lots of shit. Lots of bad food, alcohol, gambling, stuff for women and their retail therapy, a list as long as your arm.

So 'depression' is an important part of the economy, so if you are a big capitalist you should love it.

It has never been a worse time to be a straight cisgendered white male.

I really think this is a big part of it, I don't have any social media accounts and seem to be comparatively stress-free when considering the anxiety and neuroticism I seen in friends and family over facebook and twitter drama. I also believe ridding oneself of cognitive biases is a big step towards mental health.

so change it

I dont know. I think they're all fags though. Life isn't happy. You can't honestly expect to always be happy. Get over it.

>robin williams knew about pedowood and could do nothing
> why he really killed himself

It's life, the human experience is made of two primary emotions. Love and pain, they don't coexist, they rely on one another. Without pain we wouldn't know love. You don't know what love feels like until that pain hits you so hard in the heart that you go numb. People have
always been sad, just seems that they've forgotten how much being sad can help you see the light in life, the love that it helps you see.

Shit diet, sedintery lifestyle, drug and alcohol addiction, exogenous hormone poisoning and a God and Family shaped hole in their hearts.

I don't know man, I get a touch of depression every now and again and I don't have any social media. Hell, I'm half drunk at 3am right now with absolutely zero ability to sleep if I wanted to from it if I'm honest.

I think shits just changing fast enough that everyone is on edge from it and that leads to all sorts of things, not just depression.

Poor water treatment and lax regulations on SSRI antidepressants. They taint the water supply when improperly disposed of. They throw everyone's biochemistry out of whack.

detection methods get more advanced

better question is why people lived in black and white before the 50's

>what is causing people to be depressed
Inflammation

And the #1 cause of inflammation is a high sugar diet.

Chemicals in the food, massive bombardment of propaganda in all mass media. Pharmacy jew. Breakdown of the relationship between the sexes. Relentless overcomplication of life and distraction from spirituality and connection to God

2/3 people never experiencing depression in their life is pretty hard to believe...

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But when you learn to think critically and objectively, the conclusions one comes to studying the situation of the world are very bleak and do not bring happiness. Whilst the truth sets you free, it will shatter alot of illusions and ideas about society and world politics. However, you must not dwell on this, or think "oh no we're so fucked honestly", because a) nothing you alone can do and b) there is plenty of scope to avoid getting constantly jew'ed over. So inform others, give them lots of things to 'look into' - don't drop huge fucking bombs onto them. Make them slowly aware, and soon enough they assemble the jigsaw in their mind. Keep good company, and keep yourself outside their game as much as you can. It'll keep your spirits up, and stop worrying about others - your primary responsibility is to yourself and those you hold dear.

And always remember, all it takes it a slight shift in power to unsettle the cart. Trump is rocking the cart now. We can all push when the time is right. I'll pray for you, US bros. If it really go tits up maybe I'll come help. Someone give me an SKS and some ammo though, yeah? That's all I ask.

Gee idk lemme think

steady diet of weed, porn, tv, internet addiction, sleeping late, lack of community and face to face communication, cultural traditions and values being rendered meaningless and replaced with mass media americanized consumerist culture, constant validation seeking and one upmanship through social media, stagnant wages, mass immigration occupying jobs that wouldn't require a college degree, college degrees overpriced, constant race baiting and sensationalism in media telling people the world is shit and they need to feel bad, etc.

8 years obama punished american society for trying
and rewarded them for giving up
with everything becoming so easy by more than doubling debt of the US History in such a short time all society could do was sit around and get lazier and punished when trying to do something more
if trump didnt win
suicide rates would have gone up even more

shit food
fucked politics

Accumulated stress, coming from multiple things in society. Not having some kind of an outlet either. 1st world countries have the highest depression interestingly enough.

Checked.

I can only speak for myself, but I am depressed because my life sucks fucking balls right now.

existential crisis

Shit diet
No exercise
No connection to country
No connection to god
No connection to people
Consumerism

Jews

We live in a matriarchy and it's fucking depressing.

Can't speak for everyone, but personally for myself, I can't stand living in a 1984 double-think, propaganda-blasting hell-hole.
>women are equal to men
>except they should be treated differently whenever it's convenient for them.

>all white people are racist
>judging white people by their skin colour is not racist.

It shouldn't really bother me, it doesn't exactly change any aspect of my life to a dramatic degree. But it's like being told all day every day that the grass is blue, the same colour as the sky. People will admit to you on a personal level that they know it's not true, and that grass is green, but nobody is foolish enough to say it in public. Women and leftists will tell you to fuck off, and don't care how much proof to the contrary that you give them.

After a while, you begin to wonder, do leftists and women live in a parallel universe that only slightly intersects with our own - where in their universe the grass really is blue, and the rules of operation are entirely different. Then you snap out of it and realise that they're just fucking stupid, parasitical cunts, acting in their own best interests and should be exterminated.

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2/3 people not diagnosed with clinical depression maybe?

Also people's reliance on pharmaceuticals (unironically Soma) - SSRIs and benzodiazepines among others - and these being over prescribed just as antibiotics are.

pure milk and communism

this. changing just one of those things can make a wold of a difference in ones life. unless youre a nigger or a faggot

not quite
we live in a gynocentric civilization

indeed

High expectations from life. Looking at other lucky people's lives and comparing it to one's own. Other people's success is used as a standard.

>What is causing everybody these days to be depressed?
Nihilism, mostly. Its consequences are social and cultural degradation, which affects everyone.
In other words, it's a general lack of meaning in life besides shallow individualism.
In 2017 there isn't honor, decency, spirituality, tradition... nothing of higher value that is worthy defending.
The shortest way to happyness is contentment. How can you ever be content when you believe in nothing more than your own selfish material and carnal desires? Such things can never bring contentment, it only makes you want more and more and it consumes you until all that remains is just an empty shell of unrealistic expectations.

Woes of living in a postindustrial society.

Technocratic will be worse unless whites shake off the moral decay and degeneracy.

The more you know…

no purpose in life, in the old days people used to have battles n shit to work for and had to struggle to feed their familiy. now people live in extreme luxury and as a result become extremely bored, especially when they work 60 hrs a week working for mr.goldstein

Western foundation myth

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I honestly think all fags are just people who were molested at an early age and have some psychological loop going on in their head where they need to recreate the incident from a position of power. Either that or they are estrogenized from western diet. Both are a broken, demoralized person and should either be fixed or thrown from a roof. Niggers are just mostly barnyard animals that should be sent back to whatever malaria-farm they are from and left to either sink or swim.

I want to believe in god because a lot of Christians in my life have this air of security about them, like everything is gonna work out

But I can't, I just don't understand. Christianity doesn't make sense to me and it's not from lack of contact. I grew up going to church every week and I went to Christian schools all throughout my life, ive taken tons of theology classes and done lots of bible study. I just don't get how people get over the hump and start to believe in magic

whats the problem with jews?

low testosterone, stressful routines, directionless life

as always, it's the jews

These days? People have always experienced depression.

White people have always been negative, melodramatic sad sacks. I know we complain about how destructive niggers are, but shit at least they're happy.

They have done numerous studies. There is a direct and substantial correlation between social media usage and depression rates. Now, they haven't determined causation (and that's probably impossible with contemporary tech) but I know what I think.

Does anyone else think Robin Williams was depressed because he found out pizzagate in hollywood was real?

dead of romanticism and personal initiative

I think his manifesto explain this extensively.

pic related Theodore Kaczynski.

He molested Feldman and probably helped coordinate pizzagate. Just because he was on the colorbox doesn't mean he was some noble, benevolent guy.

The death of God, dependence on technology, and social interaction cheapened because of the former. Love is now just deconstructed to sex and power.

All depressed people need is to live a simpler and more meaningful life and make good friends.

>but shit at least they're happy.
Looks like they're having a blast.

did this really fucking happen? jesus christ I need to build a 401k and go be a hermit when I'm 55

>What is causing everybody these days to be depressed?
Information overload combined with an entitled generation that has high expectations but low motivation and no real skills.

If you mean the tweet in the pic, then yeah.
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Its very crowded and lonely

Everyone is fat too

>eleven years on Sup Forums
>still haven't run into anyone better at self-referential narcissistic greentext posts than myself

All those women probably hate each other.

Tap water is full of antidepressants because so many people are on them. They are hard to filter out from urine. Which leaves people that drink lots of tap water to have depression and suicidal thoughts and actions.

>What is causing everybody these days to be depressed?
Culture of victimhood, identity politics, prescription drugs, social media and peer pressure, and loneliness caused by a shallow, materialistic society that wants instant gratification.

>*tips fedora*

>Mom died 2 years ago
>Pops has ancer
>Wife has tumor on her spinal chord nerve sheath that has to be surgically removed
>Laid off after 20 years ay company, replaced by Pajeet
>Home destroyed in Harvey flood
>Nigger apartments being built next to my retirement home.
>Faggots openly grooming my kids in school

Why shouldn't I be depressed user?

Wouldn't surprise me. Something that has always pissed me off about women is how they seem to feel more comfortable pretending to be amazingly excited to see each other in public. Like, I go to the supermarket with a lady-friend, she bumps into one of her acquaintances, then they both act super-excited and do the whole:
>HIIIIII
>HOW ARE YOU?
>I'm goooooood how are youuuu?
>I'm goooood.
>That's gooood. What have you been doing recently?
>Ugh, studying/working bla bla bla
>bla bla bla bla bla bla
Then after other chick is gone:
>ugh she's such a bitch.
Like fucking christ, why even talk to her then? Why go through that big song and dance and make me stand there for five minutes while you waste time blubbering about stupid shit?

If I bump into an acquaintance that I either dislike or am neutral with, they'll probably at most get a nod along with:
>hey man
And that's it. Even if I fucking like the person, they'll probably at most get a:
>what are you up to?
to go with it. But what we won't do is spend fucking minutes talking about stupid shit. I'll have their phone number, if I wanted to talk to them about something I would have just texted.

The principle root malaise of western civilization's death-spiral is our refusal to accept mortality and think on the span of lifetimes, not just our own.

Coming to terms with this and taking ownership of the manner and purpose of your death is the most liberating red pill of all.

From my experience and observation, depression is an indicator that something in your life isn't right. Whether it be your wife and kid, your job. Your position in life? Something needs to change.

Taking a pill and talking to a therapist for an hour is a band-aid fix for this problem and not a solution.

This post resonated with me

Internet allows anyone to see how shitty humanity is. Back in the day you would read some optimistic classics and listen to your school teacher and maybe remain deceived for long enough to start a family, and then keep going out of a sense of obligation to them, but now you can look up a thousand monstrosities in a second, so unless you're actively avoiding seeing it, you're gonna need serious incentive to not hate mankind, yourself included.

>What is causing everybody these days to be depressed? as many as 1 in 3 people will experience depression at some point in their life.
>these days

lol

if australia is anything like sweden working for the government means better conditions and lighter workload but a lot less money than the private sector.

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>9/11

I think people really underplay how drastically different the world is from before that. I really think that you're spot-on when you talk about the end of that optimistic view of the future, because everyone knows that we're all headed off a cliff and that no one is willing to strong-arm (or accept a strong-arm) that will avert the disaster that is coming.

Death of God, duh
people are kept in pointless meaning less existence with no higher purpose that isn't a facrce

Fuck is this true? I've avoided ssri's like the plague but drink a fuck load of tap water, and seemingly have been just feeling more and more shit as time goes on

farce*

Most people build up a core friend group, my depression was caused by losing them all in a span of 4 years.

It started with one getting hit by a truck on his way to the hospital to check on his girl. Turns out she was pregnant (comes back later).
6 months later I am waiting for a friend for a night out. He is taking forever so I go up to his apartment to find his body, he hung himself.
3 months later one gets diagnosed with cancer. Died 3 months after that.
4 months after I see 2 of them die in front of me. Drunk driving accident. I had a fist fight with the driver telling him at the end:"Okay then, go ahead and kill yourself". 10 mins into the drive home it happened. At the funeral his mom made a huge scene and wanted to prevent me from doing my speech, yelling that I killed him and stuff. (Note: I knew the bitch for 15 years)
Typing this shit out really gets the feels going so i'm gonna speed it up.
One died to a drug overdose and one got stabbed
multiple times and died in the hospital.
Remember the pregnant girl? I am godfather of the child, well was. The kid died last year at the age of 4 due to some weird brain virus.
Oh and my perfectly healthy mom died last christmas to a cerebral hemorrhage the size of a tennis ball. Guess who found her body.

The lack of the living God, our Lord Jesus Christ in their lives for living in the flesh brings death but being born of the spirit ,through faith in Jesus Christ, leads it everlasting life

Uses multi millionaire as example? Fuck (You) nigga!

Space is depressing. Its so huge that its pretty much impossible to travel, and everything out there is toxic to human life.
It reminds me that we are trapped, there's no escape from this planet, and no mysteries to unravel, no lands to make a new life. In the old days you could be an explorer/adventurer, that's not viable now.
Everywhere you go, others have been already, and its soon to be full of chink tours, Nigerian scammers and airbnbs. The locals are the same culture as you, all #metoo and homes full of made in China IKEA shit, and they live in some suburb of a shithole town in your own country because the inflated rent costs priced them out, and they can't get a higher paying job as boomers won't fucking die or retire.

As always, there's a Bowden quote for that:
>Increasingly, many individuals in this society do not have an overall or an individual meaning. That’s why they live moment-to-moment and day-to-day in relation to contingency and consumption. The point of great civilization as expressed in great art, is to raise people out of that particular trough and get them — if only momentarily — looking upwards, looking upwards towards the sky. Looking upwards towards higher forms. Looking upwards towards the prospect of archetypal forms. Looking upwards towards the religions of the past, the present, and the future. Looking upwards towards God or the gods, or the idea that they might be there, or the idea that it might be necessary that they’re there, even if you don’t think that they are. That’s the point of great civilization. That’s the point of great work. That’s the point of great art.

>[...]

>So you’re looking upwards, rather than looking downwards. This is why people go to tragedy and feel exhilarated afterwards, rather than feeling depressed, or out of sorts, or mildly mentally deranged by the depiction of cruelty. It’s because it occurs within the context of a spiritual revelation which is transcendent. But the whole purpose of this sort of culture which we live in today, as Evola and other thinkers have put it, is not to have transcendence at all. It’s to keep man at a certain level. Ultimately, a level of consumption. The expulsion of energy, the repletion of energy, the consumption of goods, the depletion of the consumption of those goods, the need to consume even more of such goods.

>women have always been the primary victims of war

degenerates will get what they do

Ding ding ding.
You are correct. The term you were looking for is Nihilism

toothpaste no..

Lack of community and lack of spirituality. We've reached a point where we know that God is bullshit but our primitive caveman brains are still hardwired to worship something. Celebrities just don't cut it.

I think technology has something to do with it. The best week i ever had emotionally was after i joined the army and did a proper length field exercise. No phones, no memes, rising with the sun and going to bed a bit after it set. Sure there was army stuff but i really did feel good during a lot of that. Eating properly too and being able to avoid unnecessary stress like thinking about politics and society.

Don't worry man, as long as there are leaf posts, I have a reason to live.
Waiting patiently on the day of the rake.

Can't speak for everyone, but for me it was linked in/Facebook showing me that no matter how capable, intelligent, academically successful, or obviously hard working I am, I'll always be relegated to the sidelines begging for some shit job because my family doesn't have the connections other people have. Almost bit a bullet today when I checked linked in today and saw some stoner kike from my HS who.went to the same college is now a Sr consultant at Deloitte while I've been looking for a work for a year, unsuccessfully (similar major, him opting for the slightly less rigorous course). No question in my mind he didn't get that connection through some family temple/golf course connect.

Wew lad! And i though i had bad luck
Take care

the debt hamster wheel economy

only right answer, lol at people acting like it's just facebook

It's become so easy to compare ourselves to other people's “successful facades” through social media.

No matter what you do, you'll always see someone on Facebook, Instagram etc who is more successful, more intelligent, wealthier, better looking than you ever will be. But social media only shows what they want you to see, yet they could be going through all sorts of messed up shit.

But here we are, “ordinary” people with “ordinary” lives, sitting in front of the computer watching our lives pass by. A very depressive thought indeed.

when someone reaches for something higher the mere act will be mocked or vilified. Social system has been set up so that this act will immediately be met with hen-pecking.

I want to buy his book but dont want to be put on a more advanced watch list

There is no real outlet for masculinity. Video games and movies can only go so far. Work is safe and unsatisfying. Nothing you do matters and it won't change for the better in the future. Pic related is kicking off my early mid life crisis

pretty good but i think i've seen better

Women who do that are annoying as hell. That sort of game playing really convinces me that they're children mentally.