Why Depression Is A LIE | A New Empowering Alternative

Discover the TRUTH about depression and the lies society has told you about it.

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[thenightismyrefuge]

*Remember that this is ONLY my personal point of view! Whether you agree or disagree with me, I'd love to hear it. Please let me know in the comments! Cheers.*

[rhithym]

victim complex, SPOT ON. i can testify i suffered from depression for 3 years, and the reason why i was stuck for so long was because i victimized myself. My generation of young 20 y/old millenial adults is SO prone to victimizing ourselves to find a comfort zone.

[sufifrank]

YES MAN THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING !!

[amandac]

I wake up every day and get out of bed, I exercise 5 days of week I eat healthy and still suffer from depression. It might get me down but I won’t let it win every day

[cue_khb]

Depression as a condition is a lie. It is self imposed. It is actually rooted in pride. Pride is projected in many ways, e.g arrogance, bashful, boasts, etc. But Pride is also projected in self service or self pity, a demand that society and other people must bear the burden of one's inner state. This is a self imposed lie. Depression is rooted in love of self. As counter intuitive as it may sound, the answer to someone who says they are depressed is not for society to treat them special manner but for them to stop loving themselves and demanding society serve them. This gives them power to own up personal responsibility.

[adroharv]

there's simply no denying that if you wake up to the reality that you're experiencing problems and you don't know what to do, then you can go one of the two ways. I could have been diagnosed as being depressed such was existence in life back some 20 years ago but I had no choice but to make it through a very tough period. Each time the question came up in my mind I had only the two choices that were to get through things in whatever way I could or alternatively not to. To me it's a simple choice

[magneticlight]

Psychology, as applied by institutes, mainly has the purpose of controlling society. Tell someone he/she has a certain condition, if the person believes it, he/she will act upon it. The system gaslights you, there is nothing wrong with you. Don't beat yourself up, strengthen yourself with words.

[generalburger]

Great content as usual. I went through a depression in high school. I related a lot to things you told me. It seemed that the more I became aware of it, the more it haunted me, kind of like sinking in quicksand. In my experience here is what helped me:

1. Stop overthinking: As you mentioned, I literally sank into my depressive state by almost making it an identity, micro-analyzing everything I came across instead of enjoying the journey that is life.
2. Finding a purpose: Part of my depression came from the despair of feeling trapped, without anywhere to go. However, when I found my passions(business & soccer), all of a sudden I found some reserves of strength. I managed to drag myself to practice, then once I was on the field, life made sense, I was me again. Same when I began running a small online business. I felt like I now had somewhere to go.
3. Keeping family and friends close: During the depression, I stopped paying attention to the great things going on around my family, when I began actually enjoying them, I felt at ease knowing I wasn't alone.

Great video, look forward to your next one!

[matt_the_man]

Man you nailed it down!!! Unfortunately, so many people hate the true and prefere to be victims

[CHUNKYNUGGET]

Great video, I agree 100%, ive recently tired to help friends who own depression and simply don't want to try to move forward.. worst part is everyone supports it and allows it to go on.Ive had depression or so I'm told, I'm good now;)

[brendasmith]

Thank You for understanding on such a deep and real level! 💚

[konpaok]

Thank you.

I asked my therapist for a diagnosis. Her answer was like: sorry but there is no diagnosis. Our main goal is to make you feel better in life and most comfort with your emotions. I will not try to put you in the category with "the other depressive patients". You are not ill. You just have some difficulties to accept your emotions etc...

Please guys, dont make yourselves to believe that you are in depression. Dont define yourselves with those fucking words. Think about this: a bunch of doctors define your mental state and your identity, according to some fucking psychiatric taxonomy. Researches estimate tha X millions of humans have depression. So they put them in the same category. How the hell is it possible to categorize X million different people with X million different problems with X million different feelings amd traumas just according to their symptoms?

We are all different. Everyone of us is a seperate case. You are not "depressed". You are just what you are. End of the story.

Accept your fucking emotions. Say welcome to your fears. Dont fear neither the fucking depression nor the fucking anxiety or something else. Just accept it. Become friends with your emotion and your thoughts even they are too harmful. Just stop panic.

Sorry for my english

[as]

I do think you need to understand that depression makes you more depressed. In a way, depression makes it self worse. You have to stand up and tell yourself "My brain is messed up. That means I have to work harder than other people."

This video does make me very sad. Listening to some say that you probably are not depressed.

He assumes that people want to have depression. He thinks it's an exuse. I can tell you that this is a myth. I dont get out of things because of depression. And I should not.

People tend to think that depression is sadness. It's not its anger, disappointment, low self esteem. Sorry that this is long I just had to get my thoughts out.

[NHrMny]

Man.. your videos are GOLD even DIAMONDS!

[wieniaski]

I was diagnosed depression and once I did believe that I had and needed to be fixed. As time goes by, I realise I was deceived by the concept. The medical or psychological profession creates depression. This is actually a kind of oppression. They just want all people to fit in the so-called normality defined by this group of professionals. In science and statistics, normality is always the majority. That means they must pick out a small group and make them the abnormal. By logic, majority doesn’t mean true or correct or normal. So my belief is: although one may use depression as a purely description term, there’s nothing called depressive disorder that warrants treatment of any kind. Despite the bitterness a depressed person perceives, depressive condition is just one of the normal variants among all human conditions.

[reazonuk]

Dude, I agree with you 110% . I suffered from depression for a good 12 years at least, and it's driving me nuts the way depression is being talked about lately . I think it's incredibly self destructive the BS I'm hearing out there, which is supposed to be knowledge . I let only 2 ppl in my life know I was suffering, and while doing that would help a bit, I felt so embarrassed and ashamed that I'd then dissapear for weeks, sometimes months without contact . But as you say, there are root causes and it staggers me how ppl can not and will not pin point these . These root causes actually happen long before your depression manifests, your ALREADY on a bad path but your not consciously aware of it . I know I wasn't . What's worse is if and when these root causes repeat over and over and over . We tend to live by habits, repeating actions daily week in week out and that isn't intrinsically bad, but it can be if your not aware that your routine is bad . Evasion is also a major major contributor in all this . You might actually quickly recognise that something in your life is wrong, or feels unpleasant, but you keep on doing it, avoid facing it and then begin to accept it as "normal ." I can pin point every root cause of my depression and a big big part of that is identifying your flaws in yourself or anything external . I'll list my own : anxiety about the future because I did not understand how the world works. I was majorly confused and turning on the news everyday, all I saw and took in was pessimistic . My goal in life for a good 20 years was to be an artist, when I started being fed messages from my university (!!!!) and parents that as talented as I am, there's no future or job security in it, I was overcome with resentment, pessimism and hopelessness . I dropped out of university and replaced it with nothing pretty much . My goal oriented mindset faded to simply living on a day by day basis and just looking forward to having fun outside of my boring job -playing video games, football and getting high . I'll point out here that I also am highly skeptical of the BS said about cannabis . I was on a bad path long before I tried canbabis and I was still on cannabis when I beat my depression . If I listened to the negative BS said about cannabis, I'd probably still be suffering today and perhaps still a daily smoker . In wanting to learn about the world, got into conspiracy theory stuff and that probably made everything even worse, because eventually I resented everyday people (who were "blind ") and it gave me a target group to blame for everything wrong in my life and in society . Years later my girlfriend got pregnant and I realised almost instantly, that I wasn't enlightened as much as I thought I was . That if I passed on my "knowledge " to my kid as I understood it, she'd have zero motivation for life and a victim mentality . I began studying philosophy and expanding my reading and thank fuck I did . Objectivism is the most ridiculed, hated and misunderstood philosophy I know of but it changed my life . It first showed me how my own world view was self destructive and then gave me the tools to better myself . It took a long time though, because at first I was just doing thecdame shit if always done only now, instead of blaming the illuminati, I was blaming collectivists/socialists /fascists etc for everything and as to why I can't succeed in life instead of actually applying and living the philosophy . I was still stuck with a victim mentality . Once I consciously realised I was on a certain path to death, homelessness and even suicide it was a wake up call and once I discovered a new goal to strive toward, I realised I had to alter my behaviour and routine . This is the HARDEST thing for most ppl to do because we do things by habit . But I believed in the strength of mind so much at this point, that I changed diet and quit cigerettes instantly going cold turkey . First few days were tough but I had a new found belief I could beat this bullshit . I cut down on weed for financial reasons . Now it's something I do once a blue moon . I feel fantastic, even better than I did when I was a kid . Getting over depression means changing yourself and that scares ppl . But also, u need to know WHAT and HOW to change . I know ppl that are depressed and it's sad for me watching them, because they are stuck in a cycle and repeating the same poisonous behaviour . They blame the past and they have anxiety about the future . But when I offer advice, they think they just need to quit weed . I tell them that it's just a step, that it's far far deeper than that . These ppl have awful awful views on life and they can't see how that has impacted them . When I dug deep and started asking questions about their childhood and teenage years, you start to identify the pattern, the poor choices and actions they've made . But they believe this is who they are, that this is them . 2 of my friends that have been majorly depressed also went into anti depressants and it didn't have long term success at all . Taking pills is not gonna suddenly make U start thinking healthy and rationally . One of my pals just goes into video game land for escape or goes fishing . It's fine to have hobbies or to do these things for fun in your spare time (orcas a living even if you can ), but he does it to numb the depression and escape reality .

[cokiewafflesduck]

Well I do have depression and its not people are to lazy but sometimes there's more like abusive or bullying or even more that is hard to fight back

[axellaskri]

this is exactly what i was saying lately, we share the same opinion, depression is a lie.

[dennydg]

stumbled upon this while looking for words/thoughts/ideas to motivate, inspire me to get out of bed and get past this struggle with depression /anxiety I've been dealing with - your thoughts sound like mine but articulated much better than I ever could - thanks for posting, I liked /subscribed and will look for the video you mentioned At the risk of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy I have to say since I stopped seeing my therapist I've experienced episodes of debilitating depression with more frequency - still better than I was - I just don't know what to think of meds I'm taking an SSRI currently and have an appointment with my psych doc in about 2 weeks but my therapists also did EMDR as well as talk therapy and it was helpful in fact I've learned so much about myself - I might be guilty of buying into the whole depression paradigm, along with marketing and profit motivated PR I agree it's important to be mindful of the way we frame our thoughts we can easily be persuaded to accept a way of thinking that is less critical thinking and more groupthink.. I've been too depressed to go and do the things I totally know I need to do - mostly having to do with making the appointments completing paperwork to apply for services I need. I couldn't even make it to work today thanks for helping me feel less alone in my struggle and reminding me of one of the most empowering and liberating concepts and perceptions I've gained; depression is a lie; it's no more real than Hannibal Lector or Freddy Krueger and just like I have to remind myself that "its just a movie" when I am reacting to my internal thoughts, fears, regrets and a variety of false perceptions I must remember that "it's not real, its a lie, an illusion" Sorry for such a long message I think I've had too much coffee lol but again thanks- Sometimes being reminded of one simple truth is all it takes to start (or restart) the journey

[AFNI]

I really liked your videos but this is cray cray ..
i'm chronically depressed and its real i would never have believed depression could be this extreme it's not even explainable.. i dont even know when i wasn't depressed if i look back on life it started in childhood.. before some even know and are diagnosed with depression years can go by.. I was already in my 20. So its not the fact someone told you its because your depressed and the symptomes you cannot hide no more .. you really need help.. its simple, people with depression don't talk themselves into depression. its like telling someone with cancer they just talked themselves into it.. Depression doesn't give you any support because people really dont know what depression is, It captures you i think you should do some research about depressions. Most like to fake depression that's another story.

These days people talk about depression like its some cold. I'm in a traject i hope i get approved for ethanasia because my depression after all these years is getting worse and worse. The country where i live people get approved because of depression its not a easy road. i rather choose freedom than to live in a mental hospital because i'm tired.. And on the edge of going insane. I go to work, go to school, i live alone, have pets, sport, read books, play instruments, just because people expect you to do but its a everyday fight so, i just turned 30 in march. It's not like i'm sitting at home crying about being depressed and stopped trying to live the best life i can.


I don't think you really know what depression is and what it does to all aspects in your life, and of course not everyone has it as severe but lot of people commit suicide because they have been depressed for over 20 years and don't get the help they need, or they end up in a mental hospital where there is no future.. for years and years tried everything you mentioned and much more. At some point its like no point in even trying you have been trough so much, the help you get is not the help you need, sometimes people just don't get better from depression this is how serious this disease is, Its like having cancer and dont get treatment for years it's only getting worse, this is why people need to seek help in time and not just wait and think they going to be okay after watching your video and believing that it's not real what is happening.. Lots of people go trough so much shit ofcourse they end up with mental health issues like depression, ptsd, ocd. they all family of each other lots go hand in hand its like telling people these mental health diseases aren't real either. there is already enough miseducation and taboo on mental health and this is not going to help people to talk about it, so that they can get the help and support they need from people around them.