Is depression the biggest meme of modern society?

Is depression the biggest meme of modern society?

Up until around the mid 1990's it literally didn't even exist, but now 1/4 of the population has it.

What's the maths behind that?

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>Up until around the mid 1990's it literally didn't even exist,

Are you fucking retarded or just a millennial?

Its the end of days , there is no math

>Up until around the mid 1990's it literally didn't even exist

>t. born in 1998

Depression is pretty bad, man. Just be happy you don't have it

>I can't see the chemical imbalances in my brain, so that means they don't exist lol
Achmed Al-nab Baba Bibi, please fucking go.

Hitler had Depression in his youth tbqh.

Eh?

Depression is the conundrum involving whether or not to drop out of life.

You either bail or cope with it to varying degrees.

depression is something you chose to have.

Depression always existed and it was very real, just in modern times lot of normies who are doing alright mistake having a bad week or a month for depression.

Some of those people are legitimately depressed, but no way all of them.

>it's a niggers and low IQ fags can't contemplate depression so it isn't real thread

Depression is a real thing. You can measure it biologically. You can see the differences in a persons brain when they are actually in a state of depression. It can lead to a person being so down they end up killing themselves. Various drugs can actually change a persons brain chemistry to help them deal with it.

That being said, the amount of people who are just extreme fucking pussies is incredible. The majority of people out there just do not want to deal with shit and want to medicate away the bad feels. They aren't actually depressed but plenty of doctors are more than willing to hand out anti depressants like they're candy.

Real depression is crippling. The shit most people say they have is just faggotry.

>Depression is new.
There was always depressed people. Theres more now because everyone is such a little Bitch.

>high obesity/overweight rate
>leads to low testosterone
>leads to low energy
>leads to depression
>leads to anti depressants
>leads to increase in suicidal thoughts
>shitty parents make even shittier kids that eat and train even worse, and then these kids in turn become even more depressed than their parents.

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There is literally no reason to live in 2016.
Women are whores, they are not fit to raise your children or build a family with.
How can anyone be happy knowing that all their hard work will be in vain?

How to cure MDD

1. concerta daily
2. Hobbies and academic pursuits
3. Socialize with people you like
4. Replace alcohol with xanax or valium on the weekend and gradually wean off it as your confidence increases
5. Be a cunt, but make it a priority to make your friends laugh.

It's easy to think that depression isn't real, but in actuality it's caused by chemical imbalances in ones brain and if you have it, it's hard to pick oneself up from it.

All the people saying depress doesnt exist are closeted depressives themselves trying to talk themselves out of their self dug hole

>chemical imbalances
Yes goyim, make sure to correct that imbalance with xanax and other benzos since they're so good for you

If people can't fix their life naturally what else they got?

Lookie here, a rainbow lollipop fag. How do you do?

Lmao how can depression be real like just be happy like nigga crack a smile

This is a good point. Type A diabeetus? Meditate your way out of it, pansy

>bootleg subaru talking smack about flags

If that's actually what it's like for blacks, I suddenly understand why Shaun King does it.

>I'm sad because I make shit life decisions, but a doctor told me because it's a chemical imbalance and doctors know everything

Put it right up there with all the girls that say they are bipolar and OCD.

Least I got some muscle under the bonnet

Least i get that tight pussy, fag

Btw what the fuck is with this interrogation i need to go through TO MAKE A FUCKING POST

i dont want to help you iteratively program skynet google GO FUCK YOURSELF I'LL BE BAKK

>Up until around the mid 1990's it literally didn't even exist, but now 1/4 of the population has it.

underage bait

Fucked society

Young people have no purpose, no meaning to their lives whatsoever.

This also explains SJWs and even the alt-right.

>You can see the differences in a persons brain when they are actually in a state of depression

sauce?

>Various drugs can actually change a persons brain chemistry to help them deal with it
this isn't actually true, they don't really know what the mechanism is whereby antidepressants (most of them, at least) "help" with depression, they just prescribe them in the hope that it will be of help

Depression is a result of modern society.

Be thankful you don't have it.

The ancients called it melancholia. In the 19th century people started called it neurasthenia. Now depression.

It's always been around. It's in the bible; King David had it:

>O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you: Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near unto the grave. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength: Adrift among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand. You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deep. Your anger lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands unto you. Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah. Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction? Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? But unto you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before you. LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted. Your fierce anger goes over me; your terrors have cut me off. They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

Psalm 88

And it's mentioned in the Book of Job, Chapter 33:

>He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: So that his life abhors bread, and his soul the choicest food. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen now stick out. Yea, his soul draws near unto the grave, and his life to those who bring death. If there be a messenger with him, a mediator, one of a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness: Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be younger than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth: He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness. He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Lo, all these things works God twice, three times, with man, To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of life.

Deperession is usually related with higher than average iq, no wonder niggers don't get it

>Up until around the mid 1990's it literally didn't even exist

becuz feminism didnt exist and most men werent absolute permavirgins unlike now

Tbh it's not even an argument. Yeah your brain changes when you're depressed, but it always changes, that's the nature of the brain. It's impossible to separate whether it looks that way because you're depressed or whether you're depressed because it looks that way.

> Up until around the mid 1990's

It was called melancholia retard.

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>What's the maths behind that?

technically lack of minerals in the food, agriculture etc. this is why autism is more prevalent now too

minerals are for good brainfunction, a long life and battle depression on top of that.

Dubs has it right, hard to be happy when you are aware of how wrong everything is.

It was known as melancholy and is real, but now anyone who feels sad because life is hard thinks they have depression even though they're just feeling a perfectly natural emotion.

Everyone thinks that we should be happy all the time and all of life is a party. And if you're not happy you have some sort of disease.

Depression is physiological disease that can actually manifest physical symptoms like stomach pains etc.

Depression isn't real: you're bored with life, live an unhealthy lifestyle, poor as fuck, suffered too much bad luck, and call yourselves depressed -- that isn't depression, you just have a shitty life.

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how?
hey ape, you've never been really pissed at someone at had a tough time not putting hands on them? yeah, same way you FOUGHT yourself for control so you wouldnt get in shit

TRIGGERED

Depression is response to the situation where the stress a person is subject to overcomes that person's ability to cope with stress.

Why do some feel emotions more, and some less?
What is the physiological difference that dictates intensity of emotion?
Did some faction figure out how to manipulate this scale of feels? If so, whom and how?

Depression is very real, and consider yourself lucky you haven't experienced it. Being sad and numb for 10 years straight is not easy.

Everyone tells me I'm depressed. I see it, but don't feel it. I still function and have a job and work and move up in the world but other people have an intrinsic spark that I once had aND have since lost somewhere in a sea of strange pointless but extreme anxiety and depression that eventually went numb. Still not being treated in any form because I'm unsure if therapy is effective and if medication isn't just going to fuck me up

>There are no physical tests for depression, though your GP may examine you and do some urine or blood tests to rule out other conditions that have similar symptoms, such as an underactive thyroid

So why don't they just give people an MRI and get a binary result?

That's sloth or despair. A lot of people don't seem to understand the different between depression and sloth/despair. Depression is neurological (it's in the nerves), sloth/despair is spiritual (it's in the will). You can cure sloth/despair by "being positive", you can't depression. In fact, telling a depressed person to "think positively" is something like telling a cripple to walk, because they are physically incapable of doing it. I remember one day (when I had depression, note: I did have something wrong with my brain at the time which required an operation) I was physically incapable of smiling, I mean I lost control of the muscle in my mouth and I couldn't even force my mouth to adopt the position of a smile. I found that amusing at the time, but I couldn't smile about it.

late night TV
longer commutes
worse food

Bipolar disorder is a real, quantifiable disorder. There are differences in brain structures and activity in those with bipolar disorder (and their relatives) and those who don't suffer from it.

Depression and bipolar disorder also correlate very strongly with higher than average intelligence.

Source: I've been taking part in a bipolar family study with a university hospital in Edinburgh that scans our brains and gives us a series of tests every few years to track our development.

My siblings and I are taking part because our mother has severe bipolar disorder.

ed.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/bipolar-family-study/key-references

Check out these scientific papers, they were written using the data set including my family! It's to highlight the point that there are physically quantifiable differences in those with bipolar disorder than their genetic relatives. There are many other papers being written based on the data set that need to wait a few more years to get more data.

When your mum is either suicidal or psychotically angry unless she has lithium then you'll know that depression/bipolar is not a fake illness.


That being said, I am sure there are a lot of people who have self-diagnosed themselves as bipolar, because to cunts that want to seem like special snowflakes, a mental illness that gives them permission to be sad one minute and manic pixie girls the next is probably very enticing.

This, there be a crop of mis- or over-diagnosis, but that doesn't mean the illness is imaginary.

>Up until around the mid 1990's it literally didn't even exist

I think depression is way overblown but this isn't true at all. They used to institutionalize people for it and considered them a threat to society back in the day.

It is ridiculous that any pussy who feels bad is prescribed anti depressants these days instead of being taught to man up and get over shit. Same with anxiety. Depression isn't fake though, most people diagnosed with it are really just pussies though.

To summarise, it's not a chemical imbalance, it's physical differences in the brain structure, which can lead to altered brain chemistry, but the differential physicality of the brain is sufficient to explain cyclothymic tendencies.

That's paralysis and has nothing to do with your depression.

MRIs are expensive as fuck, they only use them for science and dangerous ailments

MRIs are really expensive

>they only use them for science and dangerous ailments
so, for exactly this kind of thing?

How can depression be real if our eyes aren't real

I don't have depression anymore. Wasn't paralysis. I could move my mouth to talk. I remember actually telling myself to smile and my mouth would just not obey.

> I'm so sad all the time and I don't know why

Just a fancy PC way of saying mentally ill

Sure, a portion of why i'm sad now is because my life is shit but my life has definitely gotten worse because of the depression, It feeds off itself.

Most of my 'depression' has nothing to do with my personal choices though, it's mostly due to existential torment, a lack of interest in people/hobbies to keep my mind from wandering, and a pessimistic view of the world and where it's heading.

I'm not claiming it's an 'actual illness' but it certainly can be life devastating and virtually impossible to escape on your own.

What I don't properly understand is the interplay between the actual concrete facts of society and the chemicals in one's brain.

Personally I have very little will to do much with my life. No ambition (except fight in a race war that will never come). But how much of this is due to chemicals in my brain, and how much is due to the fact that I am living during the Kali Yuga?

If I were not depressed, would I be bluepilled? Or if I was redpilled, would it just not affect my life in any way?

>people unironically say they're depressed

Just stop being sad you little bitch and like, like life man

Can confirm

I thought I was depressed. Then I realised I was just being a faggot. So I stopped taking the prescribed Jew and went to the gym to turn myself into a true aryan warrior. Told all the Jews to fuck off and 8 months later I'm starting to look like an SS ubermensh

Feels good man

>mfw blacks have a deficiency in understanding abstract concpets
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Your logic doesn't matter, that's the reason they give.

>I thought I was depressed. Then I realised I was just being a faggot

youtube.com/watch?v=H9VX8g8cDTo

whats this

I think the problem is the colloquial use of the word "depression" and misunderstanding of the definition of "clinical depression".

It's sort of like the difference between the colloquial word "theory" and a scientific theory. The two words mean similar things yet there are subtle and important differences.

It's governments trying to placate the populace by pumping them with happy drugs.

"It seems you're off your Joy"

Fucking fags crying about muh depression and advocating Xanax ITT need to stop being pussies. I got over feeling like shit every day by willfully working on changing my outlook on life and bettering myself over the course of a few years. Meditating, working out, and learning new things really helped.
tl;dr get over it cunts

this!

i cant emphasis on how much T can help you fight depression.

Thanks for the heads up, though don't expect the burger to bother with papers, facts and long texts

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I got mine because I've started going deaf in my early 20s. I had thoughts about killing myself many times.

Saying depression is a meme is like saying feelings or addictions are memes. They are quite real, while they may get blown out of proportion by edgy sullen teenagers, a lot of people in this day and age do suffer from some form of neurosis (i.e. a permanent negative mindset leading to a variety of other disorders). Modern society/people's lives in general is/are shit in many ways and a lot of people simply can't handle it. Some people also have natural tendencies to be neurotic (e.g. myself, my mother, her mother etc). If you don't experience this then you probably won't understand it as it's very hard to describe and explain.

Images like that OP piss me off because they make light of something that is very real and very prevalent. The problem with labeling it as something like "depression" is that's too broad a term for the range of negative ways people can think. Saying something like "get over it" or "just think positively" as a solution to these problems is bullshit because it's asking people to entirely change the way their brains work, a fucking monumental feat, something that can most likely only be achieved by years of conditioning or reaching some kind of nirvana.

tl;dr depression/neurosis etc is real, we just don't understand enough about it yet to give effective treatment or explain it properly.

>Up until around the mid 1990's it literally didn't even exist, but now 1/4 of the population has it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholia#History
Go away.

Muh feefees aren't my fault because "scientists" who want biased data to pump more people full of drugs and make big pharma even richer and the population more docile told me so!

>A Lithuanian denying depression
Labas, Ivanoviciau

The biggest meme is social media.
The average person has absolutely nothing of value to say; and yet they're now spending hours publishing and reading each other's content.

If both groups were largely depressed that would explain a lot actually.

>Btw what the fuck is with this interrogation i need to go through TO MAKE A FUCKING POST
github.com/ccd0/Sup Forums-x
Let me make your life easier.

>scientific research is false because i FEEL that it must be!

how does it feel to reject quantifiable data because it disagrees with your world view? reminds me of SJWs

yes burger, abnormal white matter clusters found ONLY in people with bipolar disorder and their genetic relatives is fake. the same abnormal white matter clusters being ABSENT in control groups is also fake. it's all a big conspiracy by a Scottish university to make our socialist healthcare system even richer!

van gogh died in 1890 but he had depression .

his ear an heroed

I've had anxiety and depression, which developed largely from poor sleep habits and sleep hygiene during teenage years. Was also VItamin D deficient.

Had 0 motivation for years, constantly thinking people were talking about me. I'd get a thought in my mind, and it wouldn't go away.

It was mainly patterns of thinking, a normal person would be like 'oh fuck she saw me pick my nose' and move on with their life.

I would be like 'oh fuck she saw me pick my nose' and think about it for days constantly.

I didn't realize I had it because that was just how my life was for years, I broke through the mental prison I'd surrounded my with and I've completely changed.

I've been institutionalized in the far past more than once. I spent most of my life thinking I was fucked in the head and that there was nothing I could do about it. Then I realised I was the one in control of my own mind and changed myself for the better without doctors or drugs. I'm a perfectly functioning member of society now that enjoys the hell out of life. Stop making excuses, muster up some willpower and discipline, put on your big boy shoes and get over it. People like you just can't accept responsibility for their own outlook and actions and want to blame it on some spook.

>Sup Forums is full of people with "depression" who get triggered with PTSD if you call out their meme illness
HAHAHAHA no wonder you people all want armageddon to happen, you want everyone in the world to be just as miserable unhappy pieces of shit as you are

Fuck all of you pathetic paranoid trash, you deserve to be unhappy

oh shit

Are you kidding?

I bet 99% of people on Sup Forums are depressed / anxious. They just interpret "depression" as "taking the red pill".

Depression can be caused by thoughts or biology. Most cases are caused by thoughts that don't fit into society and can't be expressed.

How did you do it? I'm going through the same thing you did, albeit less being paranoid about what others think and more hating being around them.

It's fantastic that you were able to realise that, but it doesn't mean that everyone is the same as you.

If you read my full post, I'm not denying that there are a lot of people who think they have clinical depression when they just have low-mood, and low-mood can be caused by various things. But that doesn't preclude people being clinically depressed in ways that they don't have practical control over.

Not everyone is the same as you user, everyone has different physicality and chemistry in their brains.

I accept responsibility for my outlook using the buddhist method. Knowing that you aren't happy doesn't mean you have to be depressed.

My mood is almost permanently low, but I don't suffer from it because I know it's "just so".

Broaden your horizons, user. It's possible that yes, a lot of people diagnosed as "depressed" just have chronic low-mood disorders because of things like lack of exercise, low test, dissatisfaction with their lives.
But that doesn't explain sufferers of bipolar disorder who achieve wealth and fame and happiness during periods of mania and then crash into crippling depression despite having excellent circumstances in life.

see
I thought Sup Forums was all about evidence and reason, not FEELINGS

>niggers can't understand abstract concepts

Meditation is good. Also learn not to give a shit about things out of your control

What if, the same way your brain structure modifies your chemistry and your thoughts you can do the reverse?

Modifying your thoughts can maybe chance your chemistry and then your brain structure.

Modifying your chemistry (thinking e.g. With exercise) maybe can modify your brain structure and thoughts.

>I thought Sup Forums was all about evidence and reason, not FEELINGS
HAHAAHAHAHAHAH

Yes this board is so reasonable and evidence-based with its infowars conspiracies and thinking everyone who doesn't agree with you is paid by Hillary Clinton's campaign

Why don't you hang yourself if you're so unhappy?

Mate simply try doing things you like. No more no less. Find out what they are and do the as much as possibile.