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post 1688242653 08-12-2023, 04:21 PM
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Is depression/mental illness just cope for being lazy and mentally weak?

Everyone on earth has moments where they're sad and things aren't going their way. 99% of the time, people get over it

It sucks but you get over it. Your dog dies? Yeah that's sad but just be normal and move on

Yeah i know people say it's some chemical imbalance in the brain but to me that's a chicken and egg scenario. Is being sad causing the chemical imbalance or is it the chemical imbalance making you sad?

The way i see it, it's just a bunch of rabbis making money on the mentally retarded by selling antidepressants which they have to take for life and turns them into lifeless unfeeling wageslaves
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post 1688243713 08-12-2023, 04:37 PM
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Maybe in some cases. But many people out there have been severely traumatized in ways hard to imagine for people who haven't experienced it themselves. In such cases mental illness is just a natural, understandable response to extreme circumstances.
post 1688243803 08-12-2023, 04:39 PM
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No. I get severe chest and stomach pain, along with the feeling of buzzing bees in my body and burning skin like I have a fever from anxiety. It’s miserable.

When I’m depressed I can barely get out of bed and don’t notice the world around me.
post 1688243853 08-12-2023, 04:39 PM
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Yep

Carry the boats and the logs

They don’t know u son
post 1688244043 08-12-2023, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted By notbadnotbrad⏩
Yep

Carry the boats and the logs

They don’t know u son
lol'd

But yea OP...pretty much. Most cases are just excuses and inability to handle the stressors and hard problems in life. Instead of fighting it internally/mentally and externally with things like diet, sleep, exercise, habits, most people choose the easiest and most comfortable path with things like pills and therapy. That just engrains it even more.
post 1688244363 08-12-2023, 04:50 PM
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Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.

Hope this helps.
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absolutely

it appears that people are under the impression that their lives are supposed to be filled to the brim with happiness and good feelings all of the time

that is not a realistic expectation to have, and I think that further amplifies their negative mentalities and perspectives of the world around them that they have
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Idk mane. I have depression and maybe I am mentally weak, but I think it’s something different than that that’s the affliction.
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Originally Posted By DustinTheHuss⏩
No. I get severe chest and stomach pain, along with the feeling of buzzing bees in my body and burning skin like I have a fever from anxiety. It’s miserable.

When I’m depressed I can barely get out of bed and don’t notice the world around me.
Imagine your ancestors fighting off saber tooth tigers and plowing fields for some medieval lord fighting for survival and you can't even get out of bed.

How did they get through life and you can't without massive amounts of therapy and pills.

Only thing you have in common with them is the kind of build well suited to working a plow
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I don't know that taking control of your life will completely cure depression but it will alleviate much of it.
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Originally Posted By outfoxxed⏩
Everyone on earth has moments where they're sad and things aren't going their way. 99% of the time, people get over it

It sucks but you get over it. Your dog dies? Yeah that's sad but just be normal and move on

Yeah i know people say it's some chemical imbalance in the brain but to me that's a chicken and egg scenario. Is being sad causing the chemical imbalance or is it the chemical imbalance making you sad?

The way i see it, it's just a bunch of rabbis making money on the mentally retarded by selling antidepressants which they have to take for life and turns them into lifeless unfeeling wageslaves
no one has ever proven chemical imbalances in the brain. it's theory. the drugs people are prescribed make them feel better and seem to counter the symptoms

that is all
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some people are truly batshiit crazy: bipolar schitzo etc

and some are over medicated by the jew: muh depression etc
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Originally Posted By outfoxxed⏩
Imagine your ancestors fighting off saber tooth tigers and plowing fields for some medieval lord fighting for survival and you can't even get out of bed.

How did they get through life and you can't without massive amounts of therapy and pills.

Only thing you have in common with them is the kind of build well suited to working a plow
I wouldn’t be working in a very stressful job back then. Our brains aren’t wired to get nonstop instant messages, deadlines and emails all day as a working Mom. Just the last 5 years have turned to insanity in terms of the pace we are expected to work. It was insanely different at the same company 30 years ago.

I’d be taking care of my babies and cooking.

And I wouldn’t be alive at my age now, so it’s silly to compare modern times to that.
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Originally Posted By MBisonSon⏩
I don't know that taking control of your life will completely cure depression but it will alleviate much of it.
This. Depression is feeling helpless cause you can't manage your own thoughts. Find ways to exercise some control over your life and you'll feel alot more relaxed
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I think they're from soys who refuse to engage socially and expect life to please them just as much for their special egos.
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Originally Posted By koreannoodles77⏩
This. Depression is feeling helpless cause you can't manage your own thoughts. Find ways to exercise some control over your life and you'll feel alot more relaxed
True true true
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I think the human mind is a fragile and complicated thing. I think a lot of people with “depression” would benefit immensely from eating healthy, exercising, getting sunlight, socializing and finding meaningful work. Would solve a ton of cases of it

I also think differences in brain chemistry along with traumatic events or challenges do affect some people to the degree that it would be classified as depression.

don’t agree with medication for like 90% of cases I think it’s poison
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Originally Posted By Sevenlionz⏩
I think the human mind is a fragile and complicated thing. I think a lot of people with “depression” would benefit immensely from eating healthy, exercising, getting sunlight, socializing and finding meaningful work. Would solve a ton of cases of it

I also think differences in brain chemistry along with traumatic events or challenges do affect some people to the degree that it would be classified as depression.

don’t agree with medication for like 90% of cases I think it’s poison
the unspoken part is justice needs done to give socializing / meaningful work to many. brb just do charity while someone is destroying your children/family
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