Why is depression and anxiety so common nowadays?

[djacobox372]

Depression's complicated, but anxiety - and it's offshoots - is a just a glorified term for cowardice.

I wouldn't tell someone who's depressed to "man up, don't be a pus", but I would do that to anyone groveling about their anxiety.

What makes you an expert on anxiety? Have you ever had a panic attack? I agree that depression and anxiety get thrown around a lot when they shouldn't, but both can be extremely serious one is more "real" than the other."

 

[Herwald]

What makes you an expert on anxiety? Have you ever had a panic attack? I agree that depression and anxiety get thrown around a lot when they shouldn't, but both can be extremely serious one is more "real" than the other."

I didn't say anxiety isn't real. It's real, just like cowardice.

 

[Diogenes of Sinope]

Is it because people have too much free time and are stuck in their minds now?
I heard an explanation about how a big part is social media and just overall technology is a big cause. I think people and kids especially dont have to interact and socialize with others as much in person. So it obviously gives people social anxiety to do so. Just like how you would get anxious snowboarding or doing something for the first time. Its like that for a lot of people nowadays

Obviously a huge part of "depressed and anxious" people are just being little bitches and its fake news, they are exaggerating and are just drama queens. But it seems to be a real phenomenon especially for young adults and teenagers. Whats funny is you rarely hear it being a huge problem among older adults.

What is your theory?

Low Hormonal output.

yes Im serious Testosterone and estrogen have a direct relationship with fear and sense of wellbeing. TRT changed my life.

ver the past 30 years, men’s testosterone levels have been steadily decreasing. As Craig Cooper of HuffPo put it, “our testosterone levels are under siege.” Cooper cites a heavily referenced 2007 study from the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, performed by Dr. Thomas Travison of the New England Research Institutes. The study followed testosterone levels from 1987 to 2004, finding that average levels of testosterone in males had dropped by 1 percent each year, even after controlling for the usual suspects known to decrease T counts.

Translating this statistic into an actual context lends the following shocking result: an average sixty-year-old man in 2004 had testosterone levels that were 17 percent lower than did an average sixty-year-old man in 1987.

So someone born in the year 2000 has a testosterone level 40% lower than someone born in 1960, If drew blood from both when they were in their 20s
https://thefederalist.com/2019/01/22/real-crisis-masculinity-tanking-testosterone-levels/

 

[Bacco]

Because now it have a name

 

[Texan6533]

Guarantee you a big part of it has to do with diet. I’m on anxiety meds myself and notice a huge difference when I’m eating well vs when I’m not

 

[Wingslaught]

I didn't say anxiety isn't real. It's real, just like cowardice.

Anxiety can cause cowardice but they're not remotely the same things. One can have courage and act in spite of fear or anxiety.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Is it because people have too much free time and are stuck in their minds now?
I heard an explanation about how a big part is social media and just overall technology is a big cause. I think people and kids especially dont have to interact and socialize with others as much in person. So it obviously gives people social anxiety to do so. Just like how you would get anxious snowboarding or doing something for the first time. Its like that for a lot of people nowadays

Obviously a huge part of "depressed and anxious" people are just being little bitches and its fake news, they are exaggerating and are just drama queens. But it seems to be a real phenomenon especially for young adults and teenagers. Whats funny is you rarely hear it being a huge problem among older adults.

What is your theory?

It's a very fast world we live in. Before you finish one thing, you are already bombarded with what's next.

Simply maneuvering through this new world is also very much different. Everything is online, your life is out there for everyone to look at and judge. There's very, very little room for errors and a constant pressure to keep up with the times.

Looking a certain way is more crucial than ever. Getting likes and being popular on social media seems to be a make it or break it these days.

Cost of living has also shot up in numerous places all over the world. Just owning a home and raising a family can be more stressful than ever.

 

[AgentSmecker]

Anxiety can cause cowardice but they're not remotely the same things. One can have courage and act in spite of fear or anxiety.

If the guy is dumb enough to believe ignorant ass shit like that on the first place you're wasting your time trying to explain it to him.

 

[PhitePhan]

because happiness and inner peace are not achieved through pursuit of pleasure, and the modern world is all about trying to achieve happiness and inner peace through pursuit of pleasure

I’d take it a step further, and say that modern marketing and propaganda are geared towards making people unsatisfied with what they have, leading to craving of the next hollow pleasure which once attained becomes meaningless again. Rinse and repeat...

 

[lion paw]

Because life is like a choke hold and its getting tighter. People are worried about finances, getting that job, are they going to keep that job that type of stuff.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Because life has become too easy and people have a lot more free time on their hands

People didn't have this problem when they were running away from wooly mammoths 16 hours a day

Running away from Sabretooth Tigers the other 8

Close enough to my thoughts as well, I don’t think there were gyms around 200 years ago cause no one needed them. That’s one shit thing about the pandemic, a gym session is a great release and they’re fucking shut

 

[dittohead84]

People are becoming less physical and more mental

 

[ReligiousDiscipline]

Guarantee you a big part of it has to do with diet. I’m on anxiety meds myself and notice a huge difference when I’m eating well vs when I’m not

I really do think diet has a lot to do with it. My mood has felt much better since I stopped drinking Pepsi.

 

[Texan6533]

I really do think diet has a lot to do with it. My mood has felt much better since I stopped drinking Pepsi.

It’s amazing what eating well can do. I don’t feel like our bodies were meant to consume processed crap all the time.

 

[Misanthropist]

One reason is millennial and the new generation were raised differently compared to boomers and the older generations. They were taught that they could do anything and be anyone then their coddly mothers encourage them to stick to that mentality then reality hits them when they finish school so they become depressed. No one was raised like that before.

 

[JbModest]

First world problems. This coming from someone who suffers from depression.

 

[dudefacemcghee]

Depressed and axiety people are realistic

This. As life forms it's natural to be depressed and anxious

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

I think it's also because of the super excessive food we eat and all the shit that's in it effects are gut and brain. Plus the serotonin and endorphin fixes we get all the time.

100-150 years ago there nothing like the over stimuli we get from so many things nowadays. That even being quiet for a few minutes makes you all of sudden anxious or depressed.

We are overly stimulated people, it's bound to crash and burn.

 

[deviake]

We live in a sick society filled with toxic waste, but we grew up in it so it seems normal

 

[Billthebutcher]

Snowflake generations.