The new myth about depression

[matrixmann]

What can deeply disturb you about the "newly" created consciousness about "depression" is: The acting around it is like it's destiny to be depressed. Like it's something which drops from the sky and hits you or it doesn't hit you. And it's a constant thing which you're either born with as a temper or you're not.
This is completely wrong in most cases. The depression is there for a reason. Its origin lies in the outside world, in some circumstances which the brain simply reacts to. The human brain reacts with depression to something.
If you erase these outside circumstances which help generate the depression in the first place, the depression itself disappears again.

Comments

[urbanspaceman]

I agree with this also. We slap a label or two on a condition and throw drugs at it instead of doing anything about it, and unhappy people are expected to suck it up and tolerate intolerable living conditions while medicating ourselves enough to be able to deal with them-- just so that our wage slavery continues to benefit the super-rich...

[matrixmann]

That's what also makes it so hard to break out of the cycle which you're only able to keep continuing via drugs (prescribed or unprescribed - such as alcohol, media consumption etc.).
You would dearly like to end this so much, but day after day there's a demand that you keep going on like before instead of realizing different pathways into practice... The typical "I don't have time for this!" - and it never seems like you ever have time for doing it...
So time passes by with business left unfinished, you doing worse and worse, and anytime you realize you're running out of time to finally deal with what's actually on your mind.