The rise of Depression

Good luck with your depression OP but I don't follow your post.

 

Delete your FB account. Cancel your internet service, get a flip phone and enjoy life.

 

Depression has been as common as the word Prozac. You speak back two decades ago, I can reassure you depression was as common then as it is now. I knew a lot of people popping pills back in the day. Now days, it seems less common to me.

The difference is the circles you keep. I never kept one particular group of friends. Each have their groups and Im more on the fringe of each. I can reassure you the term "birds of a feather flock together" is very true.

I know it sucks not being a 99'er, but you can get through it. It seems like you're not one who is very open. I strongly recommend getting therapy over pills.

 

I applaud you for speaking candidly about mental health. Depression and anxiety are both sons of b****es.

 

OP have you been spending too much time on Tumblr?

Your argument seems to be that depression isn't simply "more common", but folks are much more willing to identify and label themselves as "depressed"

I would have to say that I agree, though I don't necessarily see that harm. The taboo associated with mental illness is a societal ill in itself. We have a long way to go, but this is one of the many reasons I am thankful to live in a western society

 

OP, I'm not sure I agree with you here.

There is something other than lame youth and self-pity at work, IMHO. I've been teaching for a long time now, and students these days (1 in 9 in the United States, btw), show up to my office and they are just totally ****ed up on depression. Like completely holy crap nonfunctional.

I've never seen anything like it, and like you, I was a somewhat melancholic lad back in tha day.

Clinical depression is so much more than being blue. People really can barely move or feed themselves, and it's on the rise among young people.

 

I won't bite the bullet on the other bits, but this part compels me to ask why you don't feel like opening up to your family on that aspect of your life? If you're expecting 10 out of 10 bothersome results, what if reality resulted in 7 out of 10 bothersome results?

If you have anxiety over being defined as depressed or weak IRL, just remember there's only so much a human person can talk about it until they move on with their own life. Even a douchebag relative who bites into every open wound will have to face their own inner demons.

Or maybe you don't want to "become a burden" to your loved ones. You might've heard that chronic depression is a sickness, but people don't necessarily become burdens when they have a treatable cold. It's just a part of their life that they want to develop.

If you're the Golden Child, get over it. Laurels from pride never benefitted anyone. You're human, and you want acceptance from the people you value. It's why people post those things on social media, but the message is the wrong one. We've evolved and grown from one-to-one or face-to-face contacts, whereas social media is one-to-many...or sometimes none/many-to-none/many.

Your family and closest friends are all you got on the day you die. If it's meaningless to you, make it more meaningful to them. Give them things you never though much of that they could benefit.

tl;dr- In a post about fakeness and the shallowness of social media, open yourself up to the people you want in your life. Being connected, opened and sometimes "burdened" might make you forget about some of the other things you're going through online or in your mind.

 

Why do you think that is?

 

When people have to struggle to survive, they get the blues. When they got it easy enough that they have plenty of time to think, they get depressed.

 

I'm glad for you that you have apparently never suffered severe depression. If you had you never could have made this post.

 

It's a real brain issue. That once triggered must be medically treated. Certainly on the rise. I think it's lifelong and chronic, like most brain issues, but not sure. And Not sure what triggers the brain to go wrong chemically, but seems like stress is certainly on the list. Bodies and brains fail. I would say it's mostly chemical changes. Things just happen to people in the normal course of development so I'm not willing to put it on technology. It's certainly not a personal choice, or personal failure, it's chemical. Much like the disease of drug addition. People are not themselves when depressed, but all of it a physical change in the brain.

 

Thank you.

 

I've lost two friends to suicide. Depression is an sob

 

Sadness and depression have zero to do with one another.

You said you were medicated and yet you don't seem to suffer from or even understand the nature of depression. You seem like you've been melancholic or sad, not depressed.

The irony is that you're complaining about labels and you're taking pills you probably don't even need. You seem to think depression is being bummed out. It isn't. What you have calls for talk therapy if anything. Medication is for people that are seriously ill.

 

In 2009, my brother was about to graduate and become finally a Dentist . Very well liked, never been in trouble always a good kid, physically he was impressive as well. With no signs of depression he manage to take his own life without a warning and everyone else to this day is wondering why did he do that, he was perfect...so yes even the slightest feeling of depression needs immediate self attentions