When depression is having a bad day, it says it feels like me.

I keep it from bothering me by rationalizing that now is an age for warriors and strong men and women.

I was pretty sure I was having a depression moment and the medical people told me it was anxiety. Feels depressing either way.

Yeah, shit does suck and having financial security is better therapy than therapy.

If your mental health can benefit from schadenfreude, remember that the arseholes who are causing everything to really suck that bad are also depressed.

But if that was true Elon would be the happiest person on earth.

Success is the best antidepressant. Weight loss does wonders.

Offer valid only up to $150k, turns out. After that, it starts going downhill.

currently testing out of a new depression med bc the last one stopped working. this one doesnt work so onto my 7th attempt. when do i get to stop trying meds and just kms already without being made to feel like i'm doing something wrong

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Having financial security eases with financial worries to an extent but doesn't entirely solve even that issue nor does it even begin to deal with the unrelated issues. One can be financially secure and absolutely miserable.

After that, it starts going downhill.

No study suggests this. It keeps going up - you're just hitting diminishing returns.

Using sadism as a coping mechanism is not healthy

Sane response to an insane world...

Neither are fries but I still eat em

Schadenfreude requires someone to suffer for your pleasure. Eating fries generally does not require someone to suffer for you, unless you derive some kind of sick pleasure from knowing the potatoes were picked by someone who probably doesn't get paid enough to sacrifice their body and the person making the fries probably wants to do something else.

There’s a trillionaire that is desperate to get into pedophile parties, and between him and the common person, there’s a lot of millionaires and billionaires in those pedophile parties, so there’s clearly a downward trending curve.

Hey, bud. I know it sucks where you are. Cycling through different meds made me crazy. Had my emotions all over the place. Eventually just decided to stop and raw dog life. Still not great, but at least the mood is stable and familiar.

And just remember that no matter how bleak your day to day becomes, you never know when happy moments will come around...and they always do. You've just got to hold onto your time til you break through these times of trouble.

Feel like that used to be true, now you need that and stability.

Oh have I got great news for you! Both are actually true!

Yeah this is how i cope, makes it easier. I also try to expand my horizons and do a bunch of weird shit.

Score!

"I thought I had mono for a year; turns out I was just really bored."

What wired shit have you been up to latley?

There's a few studies that link low self esteem and depression with accurate understanding of the world and oneself. Lookup depressive realism. It's actually mildly depressing!

Incidentally, using high self esteem may also lead to looking down on others, defensiveness, inability to critically analyze oneself, among other things. That's just kinda how it goes when you think highly of yourself...

Maybe his happiness is so far up the scale it folded back in on itself and circled back to depression. Like getting a burn from dry ice.

Yeah but that's because he's a shit excuse for a human, and is fundamentally broken. Whereas a normie would self-actualize with the resources to do so.

I'm reminded of Dan Docimo's joke about the psychiatrist.

Two sides of the same coin IMO.

If you're feeling super sad it's natural to worry too much that something else will happen to make you more sad.

You might say, anxiety is a symptom of depression, and depression is also a symptom of anxiety.

That said, while the medications for both are the same, the therapy is not.

My wife would tell me I'm depressed, and I'd agree about that.

However, she thought I should get meds, and I thought I should only get medicated for depression if the depression was chemical.

If you're depressed because life sucks, then you should be motivated to fix what sucks. Unfortunately, that's not how depression works.

Luckily, life started to suck slightly less.

Sounds like a very mild case of "billionaire syndrome"

Try shrooms then. If you're gonna kys, then you have nothing to loose. It fixed my depression and suicidal ideation for like 6 months with one dose. Lots of scientific studies to back it up too.

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No, you're picturing a linear curve on a graph (i.e. a straight line). Most systems in life do not behave linearly though. An S shape is probably more accurate, with happiness levelling off past a certain point.

One aspect that I think most don't talk about enough is functional disorders.

Like way back in the day, depression was seen as a sign of weakness and a character flaw. Then we swung real hard to the opposite end and said that depression is completely outside of your control and is just a physical chemical imbalance. And while it certainly can be influenced by inherent brain chemistry, this is still not a particularly holistic understanding of it.

Many disorders, both physical and mental, can instead be thought of as functional disorders that act more like feedback loops. Think about something like tendonitis, it causes swelling, which causes more rubbing, which causes more tendonitis.... Depression amongst many other mental health issues, can function similarly. It saps your motivation which can prevent you from doing stuff or taking action, which makes you more depressed.

Anti-depressants can help you break this loop, but it's also entirely possible for anti-depressants to just 'even you out' enough that you feel no reason to break the loop or make any changes, and then you just end up stuck in the same loop, and just kind of end up numb to everything as a best case scenario.

The research on the long term effectiveness of anti-depressants for relatively mild - mid cases of depression is also still up for debate. A recent Australian public health report was pointing out that most studies measuring the effectiveness sof long term anti-depressant use measure the negative effects from stopping them, but many of these effects are just withdrawal, and once you control for that, they don't look more effective than therapy, but come with a slew of negative side effects.

"It all started the day I was born and then things went rapidly downhill from there."

lemmy will have you thinking everything sucks though. this is one of the most intense doomer spaces i've ever seen..

well I am financially insecure and miserable :(

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Yeah, but that's a different mechanism of addiction to feeling good due to a surge of emotions.

I've been drinking lattes a lot recently, I'm pretty wired.

Shit life syndrome! In my case it got much better around the time I left school, and my parents divorced and left me at that point.

Why not both - my brain

In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

not OP but I mostly do computer things as weird shit. like running computer without graphics etc. haven't found the courage to do weird shit in real life

not really! people are mostly talking about their day to day experience whether it's their work or just general life.

In my case, having my manager quit did more for my depression than any pill could do.

You're not wrong, it can be both. Which sucks.