What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression?

Re:What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? by s1artibartfast on Sunday May 26, 2024 @04:50PM (#40485267)

My thoughts as well. If we are settling into our armchairs, I think a big part of it is cognitive dissonance trying to reconcile the risky and imperfect world with the impossible idealism they were raised to believe in.

Also they are confronted with having less and less agency and control as information shrinks and standardizes the world.

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Re:What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? by dml2135 on Monday May 27, 2024 @09:40AM (#40490621)

I think being raised in impossible idealism is maybe an understated part of this, for sure. My main impression from adults as a kid in the 90s was that the world’s problems were solved. 9/11 was a very rude awakening.

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Re:What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? by s1artibartfast on Monday May 27, 2024 @11:00AM (#40491351)

9/11 didn't even bother me or anyone I knew. It was a sad event that happened so far away it might have been the moon or events in a movie.

I was aware shitty things happen in the world, but are rare and it was a nice day outside to hang with my friends and joke around.

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Re:What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? by dml2135 on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @08:42AM (#40500162)

Yea, well, it wasn’t like that in New York.

But more to my point, I think it marked the end of a certain strain of optimism in world politics.

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