What is Veeky Forums's opinion on mental conditions like chronic depression and anxiety...

What is Veeky Forums's opinion on mental conditions like chronic depression and anxiety? Are they caused by chemical imbalances in the brain or are they just a psychosomatic manifestation of a functioning ego?

Chemical imbalances reinforced by negative thinking cycles.

Sometimes one, sometimes the other, often a mix of both.

Serotonin deregulation for depression, and anxiety might be from your environnement, your life, hormonal imbalances, your food, lack of physical activity, there are a lot of factors for anxiety

> negative thinking cycles

You mean more chemicals?

> and anxiety might be from your environnement, your life, hormonal imbalances, your food, lack of physical activity, there are a lot of factors for anxiety

But all of the non-physical factors must manifest physically right? So its 100% physical, some of which has environmental causes?

I randomly got hit with really bad anxiety at the age of 24.

I have lots of debt, kissless virgin, average looks at absolute best, ugly at worst. Addicted to shemale porn and fapping. Have a family that expect I get married.

So yeah..... I was mentally sound until a night I randomly couldn't sleep at all . Had a panic attack I would never sleep again and thus began the irrational thoughts and anxiety.

Also got bad OCD where I can't stop thinking about "manual memes" like breathing, blinking , walking etc..... 24/7.


It's not like I asked for this but you might say I did it to myself partially with the debt and porn. I can not control my looks and a few other things out of my control.

So you might say it's a complicated combination of factors. I DO believe that once you get "stuck" in an anxious mindset it's very hard to get out of due to a chemical inbalance.

Fuck I hate life sometimes. Not really depressed but fuck this 24/7 manual breathing SHIT!

Too much stimulation and too little actual work.

More or less, sitting around doing little to nothing and eventually the brain will make up problems of its own.

Think about it, we haven't seen a mental health crises like this ever.

In these last 100 years life has gotten so much more advanced than it ever was. Before that people had many problems to deal with on a daily basis just to survive. They weren't thinking hmmm, what espisode of rick and mortgage will I watch today?

it's called being a little bitch

Slow down, I don't understand all your fancy science mumbo jumbo

its called chronic self-induced adult pedolacrimation

CSIAPL for short