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How can someone be almost definitely sure as to whether or not they're depressed?

>> No.6408461

>>6408455
>alive
>2015
>wondering if depressed or not

OP the answer is a priori

>> No.6408798

>>6408461
Why

>> No.6409170
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6409170

>>6408798
It's inevitable. The neurosis of modern day life leaves everyone depressed, abnormal, detached, and alienated. Constantly reaching for what is just out of reach, money, fame, a hot wife, our only relief from the hell we've manufactured ourselves is empty and hollow commodities.

>> No.6409181

>>6409170
>Constantly reaching for what is just out of reach, money, fame, a hot wife

This, our goals are always so far beyond us that we can only despair

>> No.6409192

>>6409181
i don't even have goals and i'm still depressed

>> No.6409207

>>6409192

I have been reading The Sickness unto Death from Kierkegaard lately, you should check it, i recommend it

>> No.6409234

>>6409207
i will try to check it out friend

>> No.6409254

>>6409192
This is because once you tear down the facade, there is no goal to have. Our creativity, our natural human drive to self-actualize has been robbed from us.

There is no cure for this depression, there is no medication you can take, no woman to comfort you, no money to blow that will make it go away. Rich or poor, we've all been forced into this machine.

The whole system has to completely uprooted.

>> No.6409296

>>6409254
>there is no medication you can take
drugs help though

>> No.6409579

>>6409296
420smokeweedeveryday

>> No.6409589

>>6409254
this is so funny that people would actually think this

>> No.6409715

>>6409589
wage slave

>> No.6410417

>>6409715
go join a commune and see if you stop being depressed retard

>> No.6410456

as someone who has legit diagnosis of depression, ask yourself this: do you experience suicidal ideation to the point of making definite plans on how you would end your life?

>> No.6410475

>>6410456
No but when I lie in bed I get a shiver/the-chills when imagining non-existence (in a way that doesn't hurt anyone). This is probably brought on by being close to the next best thing, sleep.

>> No.6410480

>>6409254
every uproot in history has been for nothing, idiot.

3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

>> No.6410558

I wouldn't not want to be depressed and in despair. I know that sounds faggy, but everything good that we have comes from a place of deep struggle. The only thing that would make me happy would be something egotistical like creating a great work of art that becomes a classic. Even this impossible goal isn't good enough, if I became popular in my lifetime at best I'd be forgotten in 10 years. If I were to become entered into the archives, I wouldn't even know it until the last 5 or so years of my life. But even this concept of "the great work" and "great masters" is so antiquated and doesn't apply anymore. Nobody reads, contemporary art is superfluous, film is collapsing.

The power for any one person to affect anything has been driven to an all time low. This is just what happens in a democratic society. All equal, and nobody's truth is privileged over the other. It would also be too humiliating to be really popular like Zizek or someone, they are essentially cartoons. They get a lot of qts though to make up for it.

Essentially we just live in a society of dabblers, consumers, and technological dependency. Basically the laughingstock of the human legacy. These issues pop up a lot in our pop culture and won't go away because they're the first things that need to be dealt with. As long as you struggle and you feel some type of despair, you're having the right kind of reaction to this situation.

What's worse is I don't know whether the answer is to delve into the city where the only sources of novelty seem to be, or to retreat from the chaos into the wilderness as much as I can. I'm using the internet to gain more knowledge and learn more things about the world, but it's also keeping me oppressed and in a state of confusion and information overload. There is no way to actually "turn off" a television. We are always haunted by the specter of information.

tl;dr: It's a weird transition period and we're all getting cucked and going to be forgotten by history

>> No.6410566

>>6410480
This is great.

>> No.6411462

>>6410480
lel, have fun with your mass extinction, global warming, and enslavement of the third world you fucking ignorant prick.

>> No.6411472

>>6410417
>implying it's as simple as that

retard

>> No.6411485

The question is more temporal than it is epistemological, the only difference between a pessimist ("depressed") and an optimist is time.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah

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6411496

>>6411485
too bad time is a commodity now.

>> No.6412249

>>6411462
>implying a revolution would fix any of those
lol

>> No.6412291

>>6410480
le nihilistic bible quote

>> No.6412350

>>6408455
The main thing on your mind is not your sorrow or the hopelessness of your situation in life. If you mainly think about literally anything else, you're not depressed.

>> No.6412355

>>6409254
You should read Nietzsche

>> No.6412371

>asking about depression on a board full of armchair philosophers and expecting anything but sophistry

how about a clinically validated depression test?

http://treat-depression.com/depression-test

(nevermind the cheesy website, its the easiest self-tabulating version of the BDI i could find)

>> No.6412382

>>6408455
>definitely sure
Talking to a therapist. Our views about ourselves or about known people are usually biased. To make a proper diagonostic of depression the one who will do the diagnostic needs to be a professional and not have any kind of relationship with the patient.

You cannot tell if you are depressed, people who you know can't do it as well. Needless to say that internet testing is just orientative and using treats of the average person.

>> No.6412409

>>6412371
Fuck off.

>> No.6412461

>>6412371
>I have severe depression

I disagree.

>> No.6412469

>>6412371
>first question
>Are you sad? :(
dropped

>> No.6412481

>>6412371
>>6412382
But the issue with this is that they will treat im as if he has an abnormality.

What if depression is the most logical response to living in this world? Are those who are happy in poverty not mentally imbalanced some how?

>> No.6413078

>>6412481
It's still depression