I mean, the clinical definition of depression is a feeling of being powerless. The way they test mice for depression is by danging them by the tail- if the mou

I mean, the clinical definition of depression is a feeling of being powerless. The way they test mice for depression is by danging them by the tail- if the mouse just hangs there limply, giving up, without struggling, that's depression. Depression is really a logical coping strategy in a certain sense- when there is no hope in struggling, the smart move is to not even try, to just conserve energy and wait to be let go or be eaten. With the world seemingly being run into the ground, climate change being completely ignored, college costs and housing costs and medical costs skyrocketing and wages stagnant, and with the world being thoroughly dominated by the boomer generation who have no incentive or desire to care at all about what teens are going through, it's easy to feel powerless. Because they are powerless. Totally powerless. They can't change anything and nobody cares about them. You'll notice that even the author of this article did not ask one single teen for their opinion on what's happening. Nobody asks them anything because nobody cares what they think. So they just hang there.