why people are depressed

[CaptainF]

People are depressed for a wide variety of reasons. Yes, it is a mental illness for some people. For other people, they have genuine pain in their lives that hasn't been resolved yet (and might not). Other people are just emo attention whores who are "depressed" so they have an excuse to write crap poetry.

I get genuinely depressed from time to time...sometimes life just sucks! But then I always inevitably get happy again.

 

[Mowque]

I get genuinely depressed from time to time...sometimes life just sucks! But then I always inevitably get happy again.

Yep, we all do that. Happiness is a learned condition, you have to work at it!.

 

[King of Town]

Who knew life was so simple?! You don't know what happy is unless you are sad to compare it against.

 

[Loki130]

I'd like to issue a general statement: If you are in the upper class and depressed about it, I'd be perfectly happy to switch places with you. And I have no qualms about beating other people who issue a similar statement down with a club. So please, join the working class, and forget your troubles!

 

[King of Town]

Being rich has no affect on whether you are depressed or not. Lack of money might cause depression in some people I suppose, but having it doesn't make it go away either.

 

[Ayatollah So]

People are depressed for a wide variety of reasons. Yes, it is a mental illness for some people. For other people, they have genuine pain in their lives that hasn't been resolved yet (and might not).

Bingo. And the latter kind are quite common. When depressing stuff happens to you, you stand a good chance of being depressed. Duh.

@ Cutlass: tried cognitive-behavioral therapy? (The adjective, not just the noun, is important.) Often effective for people who don't respond well to medication. Or for those who do, for that matter.

 

[Cutlass]

People are depressed for a wide variety of reasons. Yes, it is a mental illness for some people. For other people, they have genuine pain in their lives that hasn't been resolved yet (and might not). Other people are just emo attention whores who are "depressed" so they have an excuse to write crap poetry.

I get genuinely depressed from time to time...sometimes life just sucks! But then I always inevitably get happy again.

There is a feedback loop that can get involved: Life sucks => depression => life sucks => depression.... rinse and repeat. And either the chicken or the egg can come first.

 

[Ninja Dude]

Eh, it takes something pretty big to depress me. I think it's funny how some people get all worked up over nothing. I understand that some people have troubling moments in their lives, or they have some kind of medical issue, but some people just need to stop being so freaking depressing. I haven't seen one good thing come out of being depressed, angery, or upset.

But yeah, the OP was kind of a mishmash of random thoughts that I thought were pretty funny. And really, the whole article seemed to be more about giving us reasons to be depressed, rather than take away our depression.

 

[Shaihulud]

I am not depressed, generally. The only person I know who is truely diagnosed with one let that fact rule her life, even with medication. The general state of boredom is ennui, I think, not depression.

 

[LuckyAC]

Reading the OP made me depressed about our educational system.

 

[Jazzmail]

I've also read this interesting theory somewhere that some depressed people are merely very observant on top of the usual negativity bias.

It's easy to become depressed when you know there are many better people than you around and you got mostly yourself to blame for the hardships in your life.

Then I guess you could also call that an inferiority complex.
Or, sadder but wiser.

 

[REDY]

I blame computers. Everyone is dreaming about trees, sports, coupling and parting but is too lazy to go out. (partly my own problem)