Eight reasons why depression is so common today..

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Do you agree?

[softwaremom00]

Yes and No. I agree with some of the information in the article but not all of it. I think diet changes and exercise can help. I think the digital age is a factor. I also think there are cases of depression that still will need medical intervention.

I disagree with the consumerism point. I think it over-simplifies depression and I also think that humans have desired things for hundreds of years(maybe thousands). I don't think it is a "new" problem.

It is a good article. Thank you for posting.

[Olinick]

I totally 100% agree with everything in the article. The part about knowing what to do to help with depression but not doing it is the most frustrating for me. I, too, know all those things such as exercise, eating right, getting the right amount of sleep help and I can do it for a period of time. Then either the anxiety or depression or both get bad again and I go back to my old ways. I just wish I could keep it up for good.

[fauxartist]

yep...agree with most of it...and in US with a pro polution guy head of the EPA , not a hope in hell for the heavy metals polution resolution, or toxic clean up. Big Pharma, Coal all of them are slippin money in the coffers of big politics...and it's worked.

....when feeling miserable is more familiar (and therefore more pleasurable) than feeling good. * But to add to that, people prefer the devil they know to the one they don't too.

....Many depressed folks can make a list of things they know they can do to feel a little better, yet they don't do those things. *And to add to that...unafordable health care.

yep....see this every day too...so...the only solution is to keep your little corner of the planet you have the way you want it...and just hold your nose, cause the air is going to get much worse over the next 20 years. Just like good old London had polution so bad during the industrial age they had their own weather in the city, different than the surrounding countryside.

Lead poisoning, heavy metals all cause genetic and chemical changes in people...do the math.....depression is a chemical imbalance....so what would happen if you messed with the body chemistry....yep....not good things.

[Stilltrying_]

Yes and No. There are so many blooming theories and some of this I would agree with. i do all the walking with nature, yoga etc, and it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference to feeling suicidal. Some of us have just had a tough life; mine didn't go as planned. I now have to face whether to do the deed and dissappoint friends who may be trying to "save" me but as many many people have stated an "attempt" is the worst ever. it has to be a "success". Yes so many theories, some of it is just that life aint' been that grand to some of us.

I have a friend who has progressive MS, He is in pain constantly. What am I to tell him? All I can do is talk to him try and offer a soothing voice to all his pain. Life is tough. Depression is bad enough. I can't tell him to end his life but I understand why he wants to; same as me. Life is cruel. x

[fauxartist in reply to Stilltrying_]

I don't see mercy as suicide.....I know I'm gonna catch it for saying this...but when someone is litterally eaten from the inside out with cancer like my friend was with pancreatic cancer....she was always a little heavy...by the time she passed...she was skin and bones. I have never seen such sensless suffering in my life. It changed me forever in so many good ways to have known her in my life, and bad ways to see how one by one people abandon her because it was so hard to watch the dying process. I loved her, and wished that last two weeks of a living hell she had to endure, could have had the choice to just go.

[dee_bells in reply to Stilltrying_]

You're a good friend. I believe that 95% of people have had some form of depression in their life.

I'm 59 now but at 18 I tried to kill myself. I rummaged through my mother's pills over a 3 month period, took them all, drank a beer and went to sleep. And then I woke up in the morning. But I felt strange. After an ambulance ride and a stint in the hospital, I was back to work after a couple days. I thought what's the big deal? My depression is a thousand times worse now. I'm on meds but I'm unreliable, relationships are strained and I have no motivation. Sorry to rant on and on.

[Stilltrying_]

Which is why I am completely in favour of legalised euthanasia, but that is a political topic and one we are not allowed to discuss in detail on the forum. But yes, exactly, what is the point in someone suffering to that degree? There is no point. We should be allowed and encouraged to go with dignity and with the full knowledge and support of family and friends in my opinion fauxartist. Gemma x

[Orangeblossom85]

I would like to know what is actual natural state for nowadays people. We are no longer cavemen but... I’m not sure if we are so fast in terms of evolution as we are in terms of technological development!

I’m the one to believe that mobile phones completely destroy us. The fact we can reach to anyone anytime also takes away sanity. Threats of being available all the time to someone else kill the need of privacy and “me” time. I hate what social media does to “friendship”. I hate that everything is instant in this world. Everything requires fast delivery and responses within 24 hours. I truly truly hate it!

Where is the time for pleasure? Self development? Books? Family? Nature?

I once heard in the psychiatric conference about treating depression that two hours of activity changes the mood and help to feel more positive. How can a person that spends nine hours in the single building, then spending around two hours to commute in and out, eight hours to sleep and the rest to prepare for the next day, go around chores, check in with daily stuff, can find time to feel holy and wholesome?

The way we build this world scares me. It seems to me that it’s upside down. That money took charge over us and completely enslaved us! Fighting for any kind of rights ever in the history of humans turned to nothing... we decided to fallow the trend and become slaves right by our own right to be free to chose anything.

How I would like to be more “eco” - which for me means: simpler, slower, more down to earth, more today, more... optimized. Ohhh we wear down each other too much. And for what!!!

Please world, slow down!

[Hidden in reply to Orangeblossom85]

I agree, life can be so fast these days, it's all go. Privacy isn't the same anymore and I don't think that people get much of a break these days. Technology is everywhere and it will get worse.

Its good if a person can take themselves away from it all every so often. Go enjoy nature and experience peace, clear the head. Eventually technology will do everything for us, what will humans be like then?

[Orangeblossom85 in reply to Hidden]

My friend texted me today that we should only qualify ourselves for soft skills. This machines are not able to get. But I don’t really believe it...

I’m not sure where are we going. There used to be a saying that Mother Earth created humans because she couldn’t get to make plastic. Now when she has it and can already process it... she can dump us ;D maybe that’s what she’s doing with recurring suicidal thoughts...

[Hidden in reply to Orangeblossom85]

Well who knows, maybe mother earth has had enough of us, she wants robots to take over now 😉😀

[Orangeblossom85 in reply to Hidden]

🦖🦖🦖

[Hidden in reply to Orangeblossom85]

😂 😉

[Krazie]

Absolutely true, jimmyjimmy. Glad that you posted this vital message!

[Hidden in reply to Krazie]

Thankyou