🌺 AnayaOhNo · 7 answers · 4y

Do you consider depression to be a more rampant issue of modern times? (Have you ever experienced this phenomenon?) If so, how long was it till you felt better?

I think the people who say depression levels haven't changed are perhaps out of touch in this regard. I think there are way too many depressed people for this to be normal/natural; I think it makes sense given how pathological society is; I think whatever direction society is going in that's diverged from the state of nature, it's been going further and further in that direction ever since; and I've heard of more and more people being depressed over my lifetime.

I think it may just be better diagnosed/more awareness. That’s something that they actually screen for at the pediatrician’s.

I have suffered from clinical depression between when I was 13 up to when I was 25. I periodically still experience minor episodes, but I am better now.
I do not know whether depression is more common today or whether it is just better conceptualized and spotted. I think depression is a common dysfunction that occurs for natural reasons and is probably nothing special to our time, nor to our species.

Um, I don't know that it's a modern phenomenon, I think if a teenager went to his dad in 1913 and talked about depression he'd probably get cursed out and/or smacked, so I'm guessing people generally kept it to themselves - plus there was no emo tumblr page to vent on either.... Yes, depression is a daily/hourly/millisecondly struggle for me and there is no 'better', it's survival mode - getting through the bad few hours/days and gearing up for the next ones

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