Are you really... depressed?

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Are you really depressed? Today we will speak about depression and how it differentiates from the feelings of sadness, melancholy and other similar emotions.

This video is adaptation on the ideas of Prof Dr. Jordan B Peterson, and it will explain the difference between difficult life situations and the symptoms of depression. Also we will explain why you might not actually be depressed, and how you just might have a horrible time in your life.

We will also explain what depression is and isn’t on a scientific, biochemical level using two hormones - Dopamine and Serotonin, and also we will touch upon the idea that the symptoms of depression and low status are pretty much the same, so the two can easily be mistaken.

So, are you really... depressed?

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[atteimmonen]

The thing is a prolonged depression usually ends up with you having a horrible life. You cannot continue in your job or studies and in worst case you lose your friends and loved ones cause you have no energy to care of these relationships. Then when you are finally trying to come back from the depression you have a lot of obstacles to face while still probably having pretty low mental energy. And a vicious cycle begins. Building your life from the ground up is possible though and who knows maybe you will end up in a better place you otherwise would.

[SalveMonesvol]

You are mixing chronic depression with circunstancial depression. The guy from you example was depressed, but not necessarily chronically depressed.

[thiagofonsato]

Short and direct into the point of the question, for a month I was taking anti-depressives because I thought I was with depression, but when I look back at my life what I thought was a depressed life was just a bad embased life, that's why the anti-d. weren't working. The hardest part at all is to assume your life is horrible instead of taking medicines and think it will solve every thing in your life.

I'm glad I foud your channel, you're helping a lot, keep up the good work, you're awesome <3

[DysorderNet]

man, your videos are my new binge watch show.
whoever youre, wherever you are, ily

[kasunwithana]

'Guy with Engineering degree has to work as a janitor because his mom's got cancer. He's getting alcoholic and secluding himself from friends. He DOESN'T have depression. It's just a really "horrible horrible life"
Guy has an awesome life but doesn't feel like getting out of bed in the morning. Now he's got depression'
WTF dude!!!! You've confused depression with an existential crisis.

I don't know about you, but a lot of people out there get Depression WHEN THEY HAVE A HORRIBLE HORRIBLE LIFE, not when everything's peachy. People don't just wake up in the morning and get depressed, they have to have a serious problem in their life for depression to get triggered.

"The real cure lies in taking responsibility and putting your life together". Try doing that when you have depression!! And if you went through some really horrible shit and you're in a constant bad mood, you should meet a qualified psychologist or psychiatrist without trying to "take responsibility and put your life back together" all by yourself which, if you have depression, would only end up making things worse

[pixelwortel]

So im not depressed but have a horrible life. This makes me feel worse

[glorytoarstotzka]

man i really appreciate that u even made subtitles, keep up the good work

[blissvii]

To everyone who's saying "wow I'm not depressed my life just sucks" you're supposed to 1: find out why your life "sucks" and 2: Remove, change, fix or embrace it. Evolve. Don't dwell.

[josie]

yes i am really depressed. i'm not sad, i'm completely empty.

[LegalAutomation]

John loses weight when he drinks? What a lucky guy

[hesham]

I really dont know if I'm depressed or if I have a horrible life, but I feel extremely lonely right now. I wish I had a boyfriend or at least some friends I can relate to, not friends that I need to "blend in" with... God! I just need help!

[hamedhaidari]

I feel depressed because I have a horrible life! :/

[marshmallowsandtoast]

i definitely agree with most of it, as someone who is diagnosed with MDD, and is on two anti depressants, i caught myself and enabled myself into this loop without realising. i said I'm depressed, this is my life forever, instead of saying, i am dealing with depression, and i am treating it, now i have to keep pushing forward until that phase of my life is gone.

[eri]

my friend always thinks that she has depression or anything else, It's annoying especially when she is NOT depressed, she does not have all the symptoms not even close, but she stil tries to find quotes that justify it, like why, what can i do

[Fettclone]

The name of this channel should be Thanks, I'm Cured.

[orobout]

There's a third category to me, people that feel "depressed" because of the world they live in. In that case, it's not life situation you can do something about nor hormones, it's on a rational, existencial and philosophical level. And in that case, would that be called depression ?
I'd rather have them sorted as "type of depression" than "it is, or it's not", what you describe in that video is clinical depression.

[noamias]

Now I don’t know if I’m depressed or just have a horrible life, I’m diagnosed with depression but this makes me question it. But I’ve felt this way since I was 8 so I’m probably depressed with a sad life

[guesswhoami]

Serotonin is a happiness hormone like dopamine
The sadness hormone is Courtozol

[cgc]

And what if my terrible life and a lot of life problems starts because of depression? and because of it, I cannot begin to solve them.

[محمدعبدالله-ظبز]

I'm very depressed. I used to cry in the park when I was a kid. I had it from youth.