What causes depression for you?

[nocturne]

Or depression caused by weltschmerz which is despair at how wretched this world is and how powerless we are to change it.

Did not know there was a word to describe how I feel. Thanks for this.

I find it saddening that our mere existence depends on the suffering of other creatures and destruction of the environment: animals are exploited and killed for food, and even if you are vegan you'd still have an environmental footprint. There's also climate change, the world's dwindling resources, wars, selfish leaders, poverty... I understand that there are people who try to make the world a better place, but I can't help but feel that these aren't enough to overcome all the bad things in this world. It seems that those who have the power to make positive changes don't want to change things out of selfishness.

 

[Lavendermoon]

Rapists, murderers, liars, people who hurt innocent people, alcohol, having hypothyroidism, social workers, authority, feeling judged for being victim to something they don't understand

 

[StillWaiting]

It started when I realized how I wasn't able to work to have enough money for future survival as everything just become more expensive

It makes me realized that I will be stucked in the rat race and nothing is exactly fun and worth going through all these pain and suffering

 

[Nem]

Mom died when I was nine and that blew the fuck out of me. Things were tough as hell when that happened let me tell you and they only got worse
Peace/hugs

 

[issyishere]

mine is a bit different. i never had suicidal ideation until my health tanked. my body seems to have betrayed me and now im always in chronic pain. nothing the doctors do helps with the pain and im getting more tired and tired of dealing with it. im living a personal hell.

 

[goomsoom]

low self confidence, social anxiety, unable to live upto expectation of "society" then things started going downhill with no hope. I don't want to be stuck in this never ending rat race without any happiness. Now my main problems are I am broke, lonely (don't even have friends) with health issues. FML

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Health issues, being isolated, not being able to function or sleep because of health issues. They say. ..at least you have your health... well yeah for me I can cope with anything except the inability to cope

 

[BabyYoda]

Not being loved by others, especially guys

 

[BadRNG]

Being unable to get attracted to girls no matter how hard I try , and then hearing it's a choice

 

[NerdyNihilist]

- Social anxiety
- Trust issues
- Constant mood swings and restlessness
- Body dysmorphia
- Always feeling envious of people with "normal" lives
- Always having to pretend that I'm "okay", especially when I visit my family, just so I don't get yelled at for being an ungrateful sack of shit
- Thinking that I'm slowly becoming insane
- Can hardly focus on anything
- See nothing ahead of me
- Lag on RuneScape

 

[littlelady774]

obsessive rumination, shame, childhood bullying, and feeling like I was never able to truly fit in.

 

[DepressedAngel]

An abusive father, not being able to trust people around me, anxiety, thinking too much about everything and just feeling worthless as well as not having good coping mechanisms. My coping mechanisms that are good just don't help as much as cutting...

 

[lizinha]

Anything minor thing can trigger it. I'm a very sensitive person so I break down very easily and it's dificult for me to get out of it afterwards.

 

[azucaramargo]

As the title implies, I am curious as to what you guys think causes depression. I think for me, I just stopping trying and put myself in a mental box. Part of the reason was outside my control, but part it was also an existential crisis. I felt like it doesn't really matter what I do or accomplish. I feel like no matter how big of a legacy you make for yourself time will eventually erase all that. We are just temporarily here, may as well have fun. I guess I am a nihilist is that way. The problem with that is there is no long term decision making/goals, and eventually it just all feels empty.

These videos encapsulates what I am talking about.

Spoiler: Youtube Links

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poverty, neglect, romantic rejection, forced celibacy, the feeling that no one is in my corner, glamourlessness, austerity, paucity, whatever the opposite of largesse would be, no spontaneous smiling or laughing. Oh man, this is making me so sad! Thank you for asking this question, though.

Loneliness, boredom, jealousy, and shame. Everything's so bleak.

Ooooh, jealousy! That's a good one, @PartingGlass. This post sounds similar to something I'd write (or feel)

 

[LittleJem]

It's... complicated.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to paint myself as some special case.
I did a lot of self digging. I do that when I go to walks on the weekends. I do a lot of walks. Through those walks I've concluded that my depression comes from a cycle and a half.

Cycle 1:
I am epileptic.
Epilepsy is a seizure disorder.
Seizures cause anxiety, depression, and stress because I can't trust myself to not have a seizure in public and have medics called on me.
Stress is a well known trigger for seizures.
Stress in general causes me to have seizures.

Cycle 2:
I am epileptic.
Epilepsy is a seizure disorder.
Seizures cause anxiety, depression, and stress because I can't trust myself to not have have a seizure in public and have medics called on me.
Medics are fucking expensive!
I stress over money.
More stress seizures.

Cycle 3:
I am epileptic.
I take meds to control it.
Meds have the potential side effects of MORE FUCKING SEIZURES.
Med related seizures.

I can probably go on and describe another five good cycles.
There IS hope: temporal lobecotomy - a surgery to hack off my temporal lobe, gain control over the seizures and seen me off of the meds.
Once/if that actually happens, weird shit will unfold. Happy weird shit. I wish for that shit to unfold.

My friend is a doctor and her son takes some kind of cannabis or CBD for epilepsy
. Could that help you?

 

[iknowwhatyouredoing]

probably a combination of chemical imbalances and a bunch of unhealthy coping mechanisms that reinforce those feelings

 

[Moonomyth]

Spite, mostly.

 

[Life sucks]

It started randomly for me. But when I analyze it was because of the former problems and to dissociate from childhood which was filled with sexual abuse and other problems. I think a part of what we call depression is my mind trying to save me. There are many other problems in life that caused it, also how life itself actually is depressive.

 

[TAW122]

Many causes, both external and internal. Externally, my environment and living situation as well as life in general. Internally, well it's the old stuff that I never understood, fully gotten over, nor accepted. I don't believe it is because of a chemical imbalance, but rather how life is and how my environment shaped me to become who I am.

 

[AlreadyGone]

Just a lost of hope. I feel as if I have never truly been happy. I have tried for 10 years to fix it and every year I would tell myself I need to work harder, but life constantly reminds me that happiness is just not in the cards for me. It is not something I want to cope with and as a result, I am depressed.

 

[Mort]

Just looking in a mirror and seeing my sad little shitty face that reminds me of a failure at life. Sum one who a wast of space a oxygen thief sum who never did any thing with his life. O and let people use me and walk all over me ones was thinking of haveing welcome tattoo on my forehead. And the thought of i might live for another 50 years no no way . I cant do that going to have to grow a pair man up and get the job done and CTB . Do one thing right in my life knowing my luck sum do gooder try help and save me .

 

[diyCTB]

Fear of people, inability to focus with people, inability to understand people, hyper sensitivity, inability to work.

 

[dandan]

Fear of people, inability to focus with people, inability to understand people, hyper sensitivity, inability to work.

wow, I understand, how do you manage going through the day?

 

[diyCTB]

wow, I understand, how do you manage going through the day?

I depend a lot on my mom, especially grocery shopping. I am almost always at home because I feel safe there. I don't have friends. I am 36 years old man.

 

[helpmehelpme]

Seeing through dark lens?

Germanic gene plague? Corpses ...

On my back? Guesses

 

[dandan]

I depend a lot on my mom, especially grocery shopping. I am almost always at home because I feel safe there. I don't have friends. I am 36 years old man.

Try testosterone bro, at least an hormone Bloom test, at least , and evento of you dont is the only thing that worked on me

 

[dandan]

That was blood test, not bloom test :)

 

[herondale]

As the title implies, I am curious as to what you guys think causes depression. I think for me, I just stopping trying and put myself in a mental box. Part of the reason was outside my control, but part it was also an existential crisis. I felt like it doesn't really matter what I do or accomplish. I feel like no matter how big of a legacy you make for yourself time will eventually erase all that. We are just temporarily here, may as well have fun. I guess I am a nihilist is that way. The problem with that is there is no long term decision making/goals, and eventually it just all feels empty.

These videos encapsulates what I am talking about.

Spoiler: Youtube Links

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For me it's the PTSD and DID though I think my hyperthyroidism also contributes a lot, and my family who doesn't care at all. I thought I was doing better but I think all along I was just fooling myself to be happy. I don't want to do anything, I feel empty and I don't really feel like helping myself. It is just impossible to fix me.

 

[muffin222]

PTSD caused by childhood trauma, the cruelty of the world, Asperger's

 

[ocd is bad]

Loneliness and low self esteem are the main ones for me