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.

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[matrixmann]

I'm positively surprised to see someone responding here out of the blue!

This issue has been disturbing me in a subtle manner for a while already, I think.
There's lots of talk "person X killed himself because of depression", but me, knowing more in the psychological field, I just literally smell there's more reason behind that than just "mere depression".
It's more the question "what made somebody that depressed that he took his life?". And there were are in more complicated problems. Talking about "diving deeper" and sometimes finding that "this kind of life makes humans sick"...
...Or something else, something specific in someone's personal biography.

It seems like this stopping at the term "depression" is just a means to avoid really looking at things and admitting there's a lot of shitty stuff that humans are expected to deal with - just like that, just like it's nothing.
It's some kind of "see, we're admitting something!", but not really. Staying superficial. Actually nothing else than what happened before they gave the term "depression" an official okay to be used in media. Only making it seem on the outside like something moved in the general mainstream culture.

And - in fact... just imagine it the other way round, them admitting that economy needs to work slower, people need less duties, less financial concerns and anxiety about the future, more social securities. Would anybody be willing to cover that cost? No. In this society under the rule of money fascism , your destiny freely is to be the servant all your life. You wanna get rid of that duty? Well, get rich, idiot. Then you got all those freedoms making your life better.
All people who aren't rich can go to hell. They got no rights for anything.
- So says that class of people who generates their sweet life from the pains of millions of humans and other creatures on this earth. A straight "Fuck them all to death!", that's what they say.

So that's why "no health care" or anything else goes out to the plebs.

[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.