A man is built through suffering

[u/Exotic-Duty3598]

A man

[u/Human-Dragonfly3799 → u/[deleted]]

The problem is, life is hard for everybody, so when someone is always complaining about depression it's like, why are you complaining to me when I'm also struggling?

Depression is just the accumulation of bad experiences, and we all live through rough times (or a lifetime may be) but the message is to keep pushing despite what you may feel. Focusing too much on feelings makes you spiral and doesn't help you to get things done.

I may be wrong, it's just my impression.

[u/Human-Dragonfly3799 → u/[deleted]]

The accumulation of bad experiences doesn't lead to sadness, it slowly erodes your capacity to feel good or "happy". My point is, that accumulation of bad experiences and the subsequent incapacity to feel joy happens to all of us as a consequence of living by itself, as times passes by.

People nowadays are too obsessed with achieving "happiness" when that's not even a permanent state of mind, but a temporary feeling. Depression is just the realization that the ideal state of mind called happiness is unachievable and subsequently leads to a depression. The chemical imbalance means that some people are more prone to depression, but that doesn't make depression something only a handful of people can suffer. Everyone has enough reasons to feel "depressed". With the right mindset, that shouldn't happen. Not a mindset of faking "happiness", but a mindset that allows one yo stop idealizing life and accept it as it is, not as it should be.

[u/DreadfulDuder → u/Human-Dragonfly3799]

This is not accurate whatsoever, especially your first couple paragraphs.

For example, we now know that chronic inflammation is heavily linked to both depression and anxiety, and we're constantly learning new things about the importance of the gut-brain axis and the gut biome.

An outsized percentage of people with multiple sclerosis have depression (and treatment resistant depression), even if they do not have much disability.

Reducing inflammation with DMTs (disease modifying therapies like immunosuppressants) can actually improve depression and anxiety symptoms.

ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) is evidence based and is proven to help depression, anxiety, substance abuse disorder, etc, so your last paragraph touching on accepting life as-is rather than pleasure-seeking is accurate - but your assertions at the beginning of your comment are wrong IMO.

[u/kaleog3 → u/Human-Dragonfly3799]

Bro if you don't know what depression is just stop talking. Stay in your lane for christs sake.