>depression is literally the opposite of rage.
Well, no, it's not the "literal opposite", but neither is it
>Depression is an anger management disorder.
That's just pure autism with no foundation in reality.
Depression is loss of will, not sadness, but neither anger. Anger still rages, it's active, it has will. Anger screams "How dare you do this to me". Depression just wilts and says, "o-o-okay". Or, more often, nothing at all. Depression is the loss of the will to persist. It's the crippled son or brother of despair. It's moreso descended from crippling of will, wherein a person's ability to change a crushing situation is impeded, such as by an abusive spouse/parents/carers/priest/etc, a persistently crippling economic situation, or, as in user's case:
... a fucked-up government policy of fighting a war not even the conscripts cared to fight.
Now, anger may be there at the conception of depression, a willing observer of abuse hate-fucking one's despair, but it's not the daddy. Now, that abuse can also be self-generated, it can be derived from poor coping function in people, but no one gets depressed because "Wah, the world was mean to me and didn't give me the millionaire lifestyle I hoped for." Fuck that. OP's a faggot. NO ONE gets depressed by that shit. And by "no one" I MEAN absolutely no one.
They may, however, fall into despair when their football career ends, not because "Wah, the world..." but because they have no other hopes and dreams and have been, say, parented into believing that ONLY a football career would make daddy happy and life worth living. Calling that an "unreasonable standard for yourself" is way too simplistic, like calling Star Wars the life-story of midichlorians. And it is sure-as-fuck not a conceit about wanting to be better than the normies.
OP, go back to the classroom and take your bullshit ten minutes reading Freud to the shitter.
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