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When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.
Proverbs 28:12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
I wonder how high the depression rates among the entire US population was during Trump's Presidency or Reagan's?
Libs seem to live depressed no matter what though.
Our purchasing power is pretty depressed. 🤑
I separate depression into two very different types. (You can argue more)
Situational depression which is very understandable and normal to the situation. A parent/sibling/spouse/child/friend/loved one dies. You lose a job. Divorce. Something that you were very much looking forward to fails to happen. Finances to go hell in a handbasket. An acute situation that sucks, but life does go on and we do adapt.
Clinical depression which is much more complex in understanding it. Is there a root cause? Is it a imbalance of brain chemistry? A brain injury? This is still real, but less well understood.
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Boy, that thought was right on my mind. Interesting thing is that everyone tries to attribute this massive uptick in depression as being directly related to the “Covid pandemic”. Most of it has little intersection with Covid and most of it is directly related to Biden and Democrats who have literally turned American society on its head. He puts mentally unstable people in cabinet positions, invites a transvestite the White House and celebrates that perversity. The list goes on and on with how Biden/Obama have pressed their evil upon us. Whether people recognize it or not, this is a direct source of cognitive dissonance evolving into personal depression.
Not to say I believe in every word (plus I am not a Catholic) but the brilliant scholar Fr.Robert Spitzer, former President of Gonzaga University has written detailed books some of which consider types and causes of depression. This is a video of one summary (note: he is blind but writes nonfiction books of hundreds of pages with long rows of sources and footnotes).
On suffering and deep cycles of joy and despair. Says Satan tempts us and confuses us into blaming ourselves and feeling more sadness that we are not measuring up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOoJaJz0sFg
Some of his books.
https://www.google.com/search?q=fr.+robert+spitzer+books&source=lnms&tbm=bks&sa=X&ved=2a
I don’t suffer from depression. I’m a carrier.
Trunp’s fault.
I’ve always thought of depression as another way of saying you feel sorry for yourself. I’ve never had it and I’ll never understand the concept. It’s one thing to feel grief over the loss of a loved one, but to just sit there and feel sorry for yourself. No, don’t get it. Never will.
I’m not depressed, but I am angry. When I go out into society, just looking at everyone, I just get mad. Like, what is wrong with all these people!?