Depression

There's no difference between depression and attention-whoring, but attention-whoring is very much a real mental disease (narcissism)

>sauce: psychology freshman

>source: Professional shitposting

Yes, mine is manifested by extreme fatigue and/or anhedonia which then triggers eventual low mood since neither of them are pleasant. I have stuff I have a habit of accomplishing or long term things so I push through it, but sometimes it just takes it's toll and I have to stop everything for a day after work. I think some of it I have experienced lately is also just situational that supplements the brain chemistry.

*Former* "depressed" here

Depression = Awareness, if you believe this is 'illness', you might have acquired Gulliblitis

You aren't mad, sad, or anything strongly anymore.

No desire to breed, not from a lack of confidence in 'looks' or 'social skills', but knowing what a futile use of energy it is making 'preparations for the future' in a world that can't handle the now without turning it to a steaming pile of ape excrement for everyone, your pic illustrates this point.

Possibly 'after death' there is something marginally less awful, but from what can be known about cycles, unlikely, and no reason to 'race for the finish line'.

Sounds like a great scientific analysis /s

What fucking board am I on?

>/s

are you sure you're even on the right website, pal?

It seems to be a multi issue illness that has many factors combined into it. My favorite factors are the physiological ones.

Activity in part of the left prefrontal cortex has been found to be associated with people who are more resilient to stressors in life and as such have higher levels of overall happiness levels. On the flip side, those with more activity on the corresponding right side are linked to reacting more strongly and negatively to stressors and are more likely to have anxiety and depressive disorders. Also, meditation focused on "happier thoughts" has been found to increase activity in the left side but not study has looked at the entire chain as far as I know.

Also while many people think SSRI medication works by putting more serotonin in the system for longer (even though people with depression generally have normal or even high levels of serotonin in their body), it actually works by over the course of weeks changing the hippocampus. People with major depressive disorder have a shrunken and disfunctional hippocampus which for whatever reason is reversed to a more normal hippocampus when a SSRI is used. This is also why you can't just pop a SSRI for the first time and expect to feel happier and why it doesn't help those without the illness feel happier.

If anyone wants a link for any of this just ask and I can find them

It's just an inbalance of brain chemicals, nothing can be done to fix it really, anti-depressions have a really low success rate

>brain chemical imbalance
I hear this thrown around so much but never any expounding. What does it really mean?

brain inflammation
hormone imbalance
cognitive dissonance