Is depression fake?

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I think that in some way depression is what happens when your sadness or stress has been weighing on you for so long that it seeps into your bones and won’t leave. There is no “lol choose to be happy.”
 
Depression is real, it's just that the type that can be treated with medication is much less common than the type that is caused by existing in the alienating shitshow that is the modern west. The cure for the latter is not the cure from the former, but many people stand to make a shitload of money from pretending like they're one and the same.
 
is it real like a flu virus that's a distinct pathogen we can examine and cure, no. the boundaries of clinical diagnosis are hazy, and you can't test for depression by running bloodwork or pissing in a cup.
is it real in the sense that everyone has the same human brain in their skulls and we can categorize common behavior to develop treatment, yes, it is real.
 
i wish. :(
i want nothing more than to live an active and productive life, and i have the means to do so.
but then your brain says fuck you and that it doesn't feel like it.
 
To put it simply i think its a real thing and here is the breakdown of the pool of people who claim to have depression

5% chemical imbalance

10% depressed due to situations unable to change or control

10% depressed due to lack of exercise, bad diet, too much social media etc.

75% "depressed" for social media likes and to excuse shitty behaviour
 
I believe depression is an emotion everyone contains. How much it comes up and affects you in particular is based on your brain chemistry. Chemical imbalances in the brain are what cause depression. Depression also is a leading cause in drug use and addiction. The drugs counteract the chemical imbalances to give you temporary feelings of euphoria or simply block off the part of your brain that create emotions. So to answer it simply, yes. I think it's only become more popular and mainstream because before the 2010s mental health was an extremely taboo subject. I remember in the mid 2000s when my half brother was seeing a therapist he kept it a secret because he was ashamed. Mental health becoming a mainstream problem is thanks mostly to celebrities making normal folk more comfortable expressing their feelings and their mental issues. If it was fake, I wanna know how the fuck to not feel it.
 
Its real and at times genetic. If I can make a cringey metaphor, think of a video game controller. With situational depression, when whatever force is moving the controller one way is let go, it'll return to a neutral state. However, there's the case of controllers with drift that will veer off course no matter what you do. Sure, you can make it stay neutral as long as you can but its something you have to constantly take care to do.

There's also symptoms of depression like memory loss. Forgetting how to turn stuff on, how to spell your name, shit sucks.

Depression is in third world countries, its just that if some guy or whatever drinks himself to death, disappears, or kills himself you think anybody would care?
 
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Being depressed because your life is shit is reasonable. That is real and will hardly respond to medication unless that medication is hard drugs like morphine, barbiturates or the like. How do we treat those cases?

I've never known anyone who's depressed that didn't have reason to be. I've never seen anyone depressed while enduring physical hardship bordering on survival.

There probably are cases where someone should be happy but have a brain imbalance and aren't. Someone mentioned Robin Williams and that might be a decent canditate. Money don't make you happy but poverty sure makes you unhappy.

My solution is enduring hardship. If you go inna woods, freeze your ass off, sleep on the ground and have trouble keeping basic hygiene then you will appreciate a soft mattress, not being cold and having running water. You will not worry so much about that thing you can't afford or what you said to Janice. Also regular physical exercise.
 
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If you go inna woods, freeze your ass off, sleep on the ground and have trouble keeping basic hygiene then you will appreciate a soft mattress, not being cold and having running water. You will not worry so much about that thing you can't afford or what you said to Janice.
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Or you simply go "Yes. Yes this is what I deserve" and you do it till you die of exposure or infections.
 
There's a really good blog called The Last Psychiatrist that glances on this. Society is a complex organism, the system only functions as well as so many of its basic components. The system has built in subroutines to handle the people that fall through the cracks, for whatever reason.

I generally do believe that the vast majority of cases of 'depression' are the consequences of external events. Life for the average western citizen is crushingly numbing. People's lives, their effort is devoid of a grander purpose, they're without meaningful relationships. You're lucky to live in an age where you won't likely die of dysentery or starvation, but there really isn't anything you have to do, for anyone, that matters to them.

I think we are fortunate to live in an age where you can seek professional help if you're struggling and want to get better, if the alternative is violent civil unrest. Some people know they're in a rough patch and an SSRI can help makes the bumps in the road not hit as hard. Sometimes it helps to have someone look you in the eye and tell you that they'd feel like shit if they had to deal with your circumstances, too.

That old joke, about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a lightbulb is the truth, though. You have to want the change.
 
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I didn't read any post above

The answer is yes and no.

Yes, depression is fake because the most common depression is really a mental fog created by some other issue you may he experiencing. Diabetes, alcoholism, losing someone, obesity, being a loser. These things and more can drop your quality of life creating a depression but it can go away without counseling or medication. If anything, medication prolongs mild depression which could be seen as scamming patients.

But major depression is real. Unlike mild depression, major depression is a life threatening disorder. The sufferer will experience irrational needs to escape any situation followed by suicide attempts. This does require immediate medication.
 
Depression is alot like homosexuality. It's an invention by white supremacists to suppress black retaliation. White people pretend to be depressed and gay to gaslight black men into thinking it's real. It targets their moments of weakness. Just because you feel sad one time doesn't mean you've got something wrong in your brain. Just because you thought about sucking your homes dick one time doesn't mean you wanna do it for life. White people invent this shit to distract us from being able to fight back.
 
Depression is real, it's "capitalism" [commiespeak] / globalism / WEF / (((them))) making you miserable on purpose and offering brainwashing and brain rot pills as a cure. Not happy with the perspective of eating bugs and living in a pod? That's mental illness sweaty.

"Therapy" is a scam and a community-destroying globalist cult. Problems? Don't bother your friends, don't force them to perform unpaid emotional labor, go to therapy. If you as a civilization don't want to have tards removed from society on the default terms (after they cause damage) (I personally have no sympathy for them, but I see how it can be wasteful / dangerous), you need dedicated tard handlers, but that's it. Anyone who needs a handler is a tard.
 
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Depression is real, it's "capitalism" [commiespeak] / globalism / WEF / (((them))) making you miserable on purpose and offering brainwashing and brain rot pills as a cure. Not happy with the perspective of eating bugs and living in a pod? That's mental illness sweaty.

"Therapy" is a scam and a community-destroying globalist cult. Problems? Don't bother your friends, don't force them to perform unpaid emotional labor, go to therapy. If you as a civilization don't want to have tards removed from society on the default terms (after they cause damage) (I personally have no sympathy for them, but I see how it can be wasteful / dangerous), you need dedicated tard handlers, but that's it. Anyone who needs a handler is a tard.
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dude triple parenthesis lmao

personal experience, no its real, but I'm pretty sure the answer for most people is just to be more active.
Personally, after SSRIs and getting off my ass I'm doing generally fine. I'm still depressed but it's easier to move on in life.
 
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Its real, there is very clear evidence for it beeing an imbalance of chemicals in the brain.
the cure is pretty easy, just pump the right chemicals into the brain.
 
Mainly no but a little yes.
The modern world causes depression.
Depression can be a sane response to an insane world.
Depression has been sold in different cultures where it wasn’t really a thing before to sell drugs
SSRIs et al are vastly overused.
Some people are prone to melancholic tendencies. Very few people have real, intractable permanent depression - the majority are experiencing what’s basically the mental version of sickness behaviour (when an animal is sick they refuse food and want to rest, that procedure of withdrawal and rest and avoiding others is sickness behaviour) depression can be seen as a form of that.
When you dig into why people are depressed, there’s almost always a reason. Modern life can be very hard on some personality types. I don’t think depression is fake but I do think the way we live makes a lot of us unhappy. I also think that depression, anxiety, mild psychosis etc - these all blur at the edges and a lot of what we see as discrete mental illnesses are probably different manifestations of the same pathology.
 
Depression is definitely real but a lot of people self-diagnose or get scammed by doctors and therapists. There's no real cure or even getting a million dollars and being top physical health. I would argue depression can be a symptom of simply being aware of your surroundings and the futility of the modern world.
 
I don't know where everyone is getting the idea that depression is only treated with drugs. I miss my therapist and haven't gotten a new one since I moved but a lot of my therapy was finding better ways to respond to life. Sorry to powerlevel here, but here are real issues and 'remedies' from my therapy

Taking care of myself, including exercising.
Being willing to walk away when my family members were being jerk to me.
Asking my coworkers if they wanted to grab a coffee to try to establish friendships
Going out by myself rather than sitting at home when I was the only one around
How to descalate panic attacks or spiraling thoughts
Understanding that no response was an answer
Taking time for things that I enjoy is important
Confronting family members about things they did that bothered me
Writing a letter that I'd never send to someone who hurt me in the past to help me express how I felt

And I was never prescribed a single pill.

So obviously I do think depression is real, but honestly I only ever had talk therapy to help treat it which I found very effective.
 
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