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Usually people are more depressed if they had something and were forced to give it up than if they never had it at all and are working hard to attain it. Same
by nostrademons 3y ago
Usually people are more depressed if they had something and were forced to give it up than if they never had it at all and are working hard to attain it. Same reason that the American Dream is alive and well among immigrants at the same time that the former American middle-class is dying of despair.
- AnimalMuppet 3y ago> Usually people are more depressed if they had something and were forced to give it up than if they never had it at all and are working hard to attain it. Third option: They worked to attain it, they got it, and they found that it was empty. "I worked my butt off to get a bigger TicTok following. And I got it! Why aren't I happy? Why isn't my life any better?" Because happiness and a better life were never in a bigger TicTok following. Both advertising and social media sell us on empty goals and rewards. We chase them. We're not just miserable because we can't achieve them; we're also miserable because even when we do, we find that we got nothing meaningful.