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Why are so many people depressed?

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It seems like most people I know are on some type of antidepressant. Ive been feeling really down lately but I’m hesitant to get back on antidepressants. I’ve been on them and I find they make me feel numb. I wonder if depression is more prevalent today due to changes in the way the world works or was depression just as prevalent years ago, but people just kind of fought there way through it?
 
I think because there is more awareness of and simple ' quick ' fixes that is why anti depressants are handed out so readily. More permanent fixes take time and lots of costly counselling.
 
kiwidan said:
I'm not that political. I have an opinion here and there that's all. And this thread is not political.
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i know that but well if people did stop listening to the media which is what i alluded to and enjoy life they may not be as depressed. where that flag is where i was was rucking to. it is there a few years ago that i held the retirement ceremony. it will be there that a new memorial that i was one of the 4 vets who inspired it. when that is done i will post a link
 
Well I will try and enjoy life before everything fun is banned, in the name of safety of course. There is already enough rules and regulations.
 
I mean like it seems people are encouraged not to take risks. And humans cannot just be humans. You see I was always a keen risk taker since I was born I was walking at 6 months old, as babies do if you fall over you get back up and try again, and I was scaling trees as a young child, I would knock on random doors asking people for jobs to earn pocket money I would weed there gardens for a few dollars, I was kickflipping 5 stairs on a skateboard when I was 10 and that's was just a random hobby, I fell over and I got back up, and I achieved lots when I was younger made top football teams just practice and learn and had lots of fun then I got depressed and unmotivated started getting lazy and drinking and smoking. I gave up on myself too early.

I mean why are wealthy people wealthy, it's because they take risks financially they don't take the safe way, and if they fall over and go bust they get back up and go again how many failures and mistakes did it take for the wealthy to get where they are they learn from mistakes and improve as they go. Why are many professionals sports players so good at what they do, because they took risks, they fell over and got back up again, the more they fell the more they improved and the better they got.
 
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It just make me wonder how much suffering there was before medication use in mental health.
People had an awful time hiding their pain.
 
kiwidan said:
I mean like it seems people are encouraged not to take risks. And humans cannot just be humans. You see I was always a keen risk taker since I was born I was walking at 6 months old, you fall over you get back up and try again, and I was scaling trees as a young child, I would knock on random doors asking people for jobs to earn pocket money I would weed there gardens for a few dollars, and I achieved lots when I was younger made top football teams just practice and learn and had lots of fun then I got depressed and unmotivated started getting lazy and drinking and smoking. I gave up on myself too early.

I mean why are wealthy people wealthy, it's because they take risks financially they don't take the safe way, and if they fall over and go bust they get back up and go again how .any failures and mistakes did it take for the wealthy to get where they are they learn from mistakes as they go. Why are many professionals sports players so good at what they do, because they took risks, they fell over and got back up again, the more they fell the more they improved and the better they got.
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Courage, optimism and resilience
 
kiwidan said:
I mean like it seems people are encouraged not to take risks. And humans cannot just be humans. You see I was always a keen risk taker since I was born I was walking at 6 months old, as babies do if you fall over you get back up and try again, and I was scaling trees as a young child, I would knock on random doors asking people for jobs to earn pocket money I would weed there gardens for a few dollars, I was kickflipping 5 stairs on a skateboard when I was 10 and that's was just a random hobby, I fell over and I got back up, and I achieved lots when I was younger made top football teams just practice and learn and had lots of fun then I got depressed and unmotivated started getting lazy and drinking and smoking. I gave up on myself too early.

I mean why are wealthy people wealthy, it's because they take risks financially they don't take the safe way, and if they fall over and go bust they get back up and go again how many failures and mistakes did it take for the wealthy to get where they are they learn from mistakes and improve as they go. Why are many professionals sports players so good at what they do, because they took risks, they fell over and got back up again, the more they fell the more they improved and the better they got.
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What risks could you realistically take now?
Are you interested in changing your current life? In what way?
 
humble soul said:
What risks could you realistically take now?
Are you interested in changing your current life? In what way?
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I still take lots of risks, I get out of bed each morning, that's a risk as I could fall over as I get out, then I take a shower, that's a risk, I could slip on the floor , then I make breakfast, that's a risk, I'm eating food I have trust and faith is safe to eat but it's still a risk. Then I drive to work, that's a risk there could be some idiot on the road.


I mean, I can go on.
 
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I still take lots of risks, I get out of bed each morning, that's a risk as I could fall over as I get out, then I take a shower, that's a risk, I could slip on the floor , then I make breakfast, that's a risk, I'm eating food I have trust and faith is safe to eat but it's still a risk. Then I drive to work, that's a risk there could be some idiot on the road.


I mean, I can go on.
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Some people say they take a risk by responding to my posts. I don't know what they are on about .
 
I do think it's always been around, for sure. Better awareness and lessening stigma leads to more diagnoses.
That said, I do think clinical depression is likely overdiagnosed. One can have circumstantial depression without having a disorder that makes you feel depressed. This is why the official diagnostic material says that for a diagnosis of major depressive disorder to be made, you must have been experiencing symptoms for at least two years.
But not all Drs follow that, apparently
 
I will mention, that quite a few historic people of faith are believed, in retrospect, to have been suffering from depression or other mental illness. Charles Spurgeon is believed to have been bipolar, iirc. And Martin Luther is speculated to have suffered from religious OCD/scrupulosity.
 
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