I think depression can lead to apathy, anhedonia, even nihilism but having that as an origin point for depression seems quite out of place. The last sentence o

I think depression can lead to apathy, anhedonia, even nihilism but having that as an origin point for depression seems quite out of place. The last sentence of your main paragraph is the reason for my username. It’s certainly not the origin point for that feeling, however. It isn’t fun to realize that everything you touch within your own lifetime is temporary. Work is largely meaningless. Abusive partners, officials getting away with clear (attempted) murder because they can hide behind a piece of paper, and so on. Sure life is “unfair”, but it is unfair for the vast majority due to it being stacked for the vanishingly tiny minority. And the majority is powerless to stop the abuses. Why bother?