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There's a general bucketing in the modern world of all unhappiness being depression that should be treated, which I don't think really fits what's going on. The
by jon-wood 6y ago
There's a general bucketing in the modern world of all unhappiness being depression that should be treated, which I don't think really fits what's going on. There are absolutely cases where anxiety and depression are a medical issue which warrant treatment with medication, but there are also completely legitimate reasons for those conditions. If your lifestyle is one of never leaving the house, zero social contact, with the bank imminently foreclosing on your house then depression and anxiety are entirely appropriate - so long as those feelings then cause you to do something about the problem.
- Fishysoup 6y agoNaming these two medical conditions "Depression" and "Anxiety" is pretty unfortunate. They are completely different from"feeling depressed" and "feeling anxious". Having depression or anxiety in the medical sense will not cause you to do anything about any problem, because they are debilitating. They reflect long-term changes to your brain chemistry that may or may not respond to medication - transiently feeling anxious or depressed is not that.
- agumonkey 6y agoSeems like depression is like tissue regeneration. It tries to fix things then it bails out. Depression is often called a pit, when you're in it, you haven't the slightest idea nor capability to do whatever. The only evolutionnary value I see in this is making you so sluggish you'll be left out by whoever or whatever is harming you because time goes on and they'll move.
- playeren 6y agoI am a bit confused by your comment. When you write 'legitimate reasons', do you mean from a _moral_ stand point? I can't otherwise make sense of 'legitimacy' in this context. edit: Do you mean 'legitimate' in the context of it increasing evolutionary fitness in some way?