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RE: Traveling at the Edge of Depression
The word 'depression' is indeed used as if it's normal, confetti...
I can't remember it was used as I grew up that much. We said: I am sad or: I am down.
Next everything was labelled as depressed and depressed it is.
Weltschmerz, I would associate with a sensitivity for the "misery" in the world partly made up.
Why people "suffer" from that is a miracle to.. I wonder how many who. Wentthrough the hardships of life would say that.
There's depressed and depressed. Many are not or at least not in the meaning of the word.
Solution? Hard work, fighting for your life instead of the "I am bored and spoiled" lifestyle.
Those who suffer for real good use real, good help as far as possible. I don't believe it is and it is in the DNA.
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Indeed, many people are not really depressed. I did have an aunt when I was a little kid (late 1960s) who was "depressed" and she was in an actual mental health institution for a couple of years, mostly so she wouldn't do harm to herself. Her name was always whispered very softly, as if people in the family were afraid they might "catch it" if they talked about it.
I do believe that sensitivity (along with a sort of depression) to the suffering of the greater world is a real thing... for a few people. Again, going back to my childhood, I know my grandmother was to some degree afflicted... in spite of having lived through two world wars, the depression, the Cold War and so forth. The rest of the family pretty much lived in an "ignore what you feel" world of pure practicality.
I would agree that there is a generation (or several?) with a much lowered tolerance for discomfort and setbacks... perhaps they were sold too much on the idea that "you can HAVE everything, and BE everything you want in the world." Well, no you can't. So they are bored and spoiled.
My own dark mind is more rooted in a deep-seated sense of "why bother" when everything is going to hell, anyway. Likely, that is a USA-centric thought pattern... not applicable worldwide... here "working hard" often means someone else gets rich and your reward is ending up wondering whether the electricity will be turned off next week. So... why bother?
The only family member whispered about on rare occasions was a great grandmother who went into a hospital. It could have been alzheimer's disease but it was a shame and in a way it is still with us.
All those US talkshows with everyone a personal shrink and being an expert and publishing books sounds very nuts to us (thankfully) still I find the present responses of doctors strange (since 2019).
With us you work and if you don't work you are deadly sick. And sick mrans you are in bed and can not lift a finger. So no bullshit nonsense.
The same way was my grandmother. She said: You live in the Netherlands so you speak Dutch and nothing else and you get at work. Hanging around, being bored and feeling pity for yourself just like discrimination was not allowed.
In a way I raised my children the same. I must say I never had the beghing for A brand stuff and all sorts of "needs" that had to be fulfilled. They never skipped school or their job because they feel sick but we do notice that others eazily do and get away with it every time.
Today we changed our attitude as well. We work for our basics, have no debts, no loans and the rest of the time we do as we like.
Back to the doctor: she told me that all teenagers are tired and the best thing is to let them sleep even if it's for days.
This is the most ridiculous treatment I ever heard of. I see the same with co-workers, a lazy generation with a la k of working attitude, hobbies, likes and life energy.
I believe if there's no reason to work for what you want, there's nothing to inspire or push forward to a goal life lises all interest.
A good remedy might be a long survival trip with nothing.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I believe the worst thing of all those "depressed" ones is that they give those who really suffer a bad name but also take the medical care they need away from them.
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