RE: How do you deal with depression when you're out of touch with your emotions?
July 19, 2020 at 4:29 pm
(July 19, 2020 at 9:15 am)Lawz Wrote: I've never suffered from clinical depression, but whenever I feel down I try to remember to count my blessings. I live in one of the richest countries in the world and am bathed in material luxuries (laptops, internet, double bed with cushions, central heating, microwaves, luxury food by the kilogram - I ain't going hungry, put it that way, free healthcare should I fall ill, and related, I'm not in agony through physical illness or injury, I'm not in prison so am free...etc etc etc etc etc virtually ad infinitum). The idea that I should be depressed, when 100s of millions of people on the planet are living in penury/destitution/war zones/physical agony/incarceration etc...me? Depressed? Don't be absurd.
Ok, that might work for you...now.
We have been dealing with depression this way for a long time.
We generally think this way about the depressed person.
'What's wrong with them, they have everything they need.'
But still, these people we know and love keep killing themselves, no matter how much we tell them how lucky they are.
But there's these little drugs in your body that make you happy.
It's the only way you can be happy.
For some people these little drugs don't come out any more.
So, quite often it's got absolutely nothing to do with the outside world.
Or how smart you are.
Or what country you're in.
It is a mental pain that is so severe that the victim ends their life to escape it.
Or it is such a lack of emotion that there's nothing left to motivate the sufferer to go on.
