Well Veeky Forums, what is it? A real illness? Any personal experiences with it? Theories on causes?
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Depression
Andrew Wood
Leo Stewart
in my case lack of sleep causes it
think different people have different triggers
my theory is everyone has a down mode but some people manage to avoid triggering it
nothing to do with 'chemical balance in the brain' or any of that junk
Aaron Brown
>Any personal experiences with it?
Yep. I've been depressed for about a decade, I started exercising and going to the gym about a year ago and I honestly can't remember feeling better. Since then I've been wondering if there's some link between the increasingly sedentary lifestyles of people and the raise in the prevalence of depression.
Ian Roberts
A natural response to the inhuman capitalistic system that we live in
Michael Roberts
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Juan Hill
I seriously think that depression and existential crises are the same thing. I have the symptoms and lifestyle of depression but never considred myself depressed (or sad). But I realised that my existential crisis was leading to the same things
Anthony Mitchell
youtu.be
A must-view for understanding the fundamentals of depression
Gabriel Wright
Super depressed person here.
My personal theory on depression and suicide is that they are natural mechanisms of human mentality that serve to enhance group fitness as a whole by encouraging the redistribution of resources from those less favorable to reproduce to those more favorable to reproduce. It's a way to prune socially weak persons out. You don't really see suicide in animals much because it takes high-level social behavior to become important.
Could be completely wrong, but that seems like a plausible evolutionary explanation.
Robert Myers
It could be because of our need to socialize, and if one is ostracized from society they regress until finally the brain recognizes no plausibility of passing on genes, and ends it.
Dominic White
>psychomotor retardation
I see there is a word for it. Very enlightening video, thanks for posting.