Depression: Causes and Effects

[JurseyRider734]

What stimulates the brain to go into depression? Why do people feel the need to resort to drugs/alcoholism/suicide to get over it, or try to help, when all it does is make things worse?

[Tasselfoot]

RE: Depression: Causes and Effects

The effects of drugs/alcohol make a person lose the sense of reality. They are able to forget all of the issues they may have through the aid of the substance. The fact that it causes a longterm negative effect is not a concern of theirs. All they want is a quick solution of their problems.

As far as why people become depressed, there are lots of reasons. Mostly related to the relationships (or lack of) someone has. Also money can be a reason, or it could be something that a person is born prone to.

Just remember this, and depression shall fear you. "Don't worry. Be happy." and picture the goofy black man who sings it. Puts a smile on my face every time. Silly 80s music.

[JurseyRider734]

RE: Depression: Causes and Effects

Don't worry, i'm not depressed. Not in that way at least...I have some other kind where my attitude is like "I don't care, so what?" and I have low self-motivation. But i'm not depressed like that.

[Tasselfoot]

RE: Depression: Causes and Effects

I wasn't directing any comments towards you or anyone else. I was just trying to help answer your question.

[jewpinthethird]

RE: Depression: Causes and Effects

I think there are a lot of factors that contribute to depression. The most obvious being "relationship" problems. But diet, and other jazz cause depression too. Personally, I believe everyone becomes depressed at one point or another, but it is those who are depressed all the time that people need to worry about.

There was a brief period during my freshmen year of High School were I believe I was depressed...and the feeling sucks ass. My main thought during that time was "I need to get out of this hell-hole city." But I got over it and now I actually love where I live (even if it does suck, the scenery is grand). I also switched schools which made everything a lot better.

Anyone who has been depressed knows how much it sucks, and when you have that feeling that of "what is the point?" one easily turns to drugs and alcohol. Though I never did because I wasnt depressed very long.

[Squeek]

RE: Depression: Causes and Effects

Personally, I think labelling yourself as having "depression" is trying to take the easy way out of problems.

So, blame everything else for troubles in life and be sad that nothing can help, when in all actuality, life is good and other people can ALWAYS relate to the problems you have.

I've never been in a constant state of depression once I realized that the stupid people the bothered me wouldn't get far in life anyway. That was like 8 years ago now.

Look, this is just my view on depression and I know it's skewed, so don't critcize my views. The only situation that I can relate to this topic is my "depressed" friend who wanted to kill himself many times and went on medication to prevent it. I have no idea what he was depressed about; he had many friends, every 128-bit console, a nice computer, and a huge house with parents that cared for him. All he did was brag about the fact that he could potentially slit his wrists, though he never did.

~Squeek

[akiosama]

Hey,

Its kind of like a "why or why not" situation, where one asks, "What is the point in living?" as they look at the world from a 3rd person perspective. What they forget to ask themselves is, "What is the point in dying?" Depression-wise, there are many ways to deal with it, but the best way would be to look at things and not think about them, and just act. Don't think, thinking is unhealthy (why we're having these discussions i dunno, i think they're fun) ^_^

[Mindfields]

Hey,

Its kind of like a "why or why not" situation, where one asks, "What is the point in living?" as they look at the world from a 3rd person perspective. What they forget to ask themselves is, "What is the point in dying?" Depression-wise, there are many ways to deal with it, but the best way would be to look at things and not think about them, and just act. Don't think, thinking is unhealthy (why we're having these discussions i dunno, i think they're fun) ^_^

The point in dying is that it will end your depression, quick and easy. Plus if you live then every one will pity you.
But thats besides the topic. Depression is mostly neuro-toxins acting up. It's really not much of a problem unless you do the exact same things every day. If you do, then it will never let you go.

[themanwithsauce]

The point in dying is that it will end your depression, quick and easy. Plus if you live then every one will pity you.

I'd rather be pitied and alive to hopefully one day rise to the point of not being pitied than to die and never get that chance.

And I don't think that a chemical imbalance is the exact cause of depression, just one of many signs. And using drugs messes up your body's chemical balance- they could make the depression worse or better so be careful what you do.

[GuidoHunter]

What causes the brain to go into a state of depression (i.e. release levels of chemicals indicative of a state of sadness)? I feel it's one's own attitude, and the physical results are completely psychosomatic. That is to say, you're depressed because you don't want to do anything about it, and your body reacts as such.

I've never been depressed before. Ask anyone I know; they'll say I'm in a perpetual state of happiness. I'm not going to say that my history skews my view on the matter, because I believe that such an outlook on happiness and depression is what's allowed me to never be depressed.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[sleeplessdragn]

I feel that I have gone through my own stages of depression. I personally believe that my lack of variety in lifestyle may be the sole reasoning behind it: I live a routine life, never changing and never experiencing anything different. What resulted was an extreme feeling of pointlessness in living. A logic emerged where I felt that I had reached the epitimy(sp?) of what life had to offer and thus fell into a rut of self-pity and hopeless outlooks. Sometimes I still have those feelings but now it only takes a good chat with some friends for me to realize how great my situation really is.

All in all, I think depression is caused partly from biological factors, and mainly due to some form of monotomy(sp?).

[Moogy]

Emo alert.

[zildjian133]

If you want to know depression quit school and get addicted to a drug...

[alainbryden]

It is a fact, that there is a predisposition to manic depression that exists in the genes, but it is much less common than the number of people who claim to be depressed. Therefore, sadly, having all depressed people kill themselves would not rid our gene pool of this emotional stage. I suggest, instead, that it is an environmentally induced symptom, and I daresay even, that you need to be raised in a very specif way to not suffer a stage of depression sometime in your life. Everyone wants it cured a different way, and few people want to bother curing it for them.

There are three stages involving depression:
1) You are depressed
2) You help depressed people get over their depression
3) You think depressed people are n00bs.

I think that the first stage ends when you start on the second stage.


The moral of the story? If you are depressed, go find other depressed people and battle for who is most depressed until one of you believes that the other is actually going to kill themselves, then "save" them and learn to embrace life together.

[Shetage]

Another form of depression is the "winter blues"....its basically you being pissed off (esp in michigan), cause you havent seen the sun in all its...uh...sun-ness, seince summer....and some other stuff like its not warm and blah blah blah...i'll find the article, it was on my local news station (channel 7 wxyz woot!)