Why are people so depressed/suicidal these days? -

[UntimelyDhelmise]

You can't go a day without someone talking about suicidal tendencies no matter where you are, and it's concerning as to why. Yes, there's a lot of baiting as we've seen among many a cow because it's quick and easy sympathy points, but nonetheless there's an inordinate number of people (mostly millennial and younger) who are seemingly on the mental edge at all times.

I have some theories, such as poor understanding of mental health, practices in hospitals and mental wards being sub-par at best, and modern society's overemphasis on feelings and emotions over everything else, but I doubt it's any one particular factor being the sole cause.

One thing's for sure though, all the wolf crying is detrimental for those who really are suicidal, because just like the folk tale people quickly grow tired of the constant fake outs to the point where they won't heed a real cry for help until it's too late.

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

It's pretty simple;

 

[Damn Near]

Technology, in short

 

[ES 148]

Everything's going too fast.

 

[QI 541]

Because the world is getting worse in every way except in computer-related technological advancements.

 

[Cheeseman]

sure there are attention whores who use it as bait, but its not a new phenomenon. i put my money on the fact that internet access gives a larger world view and people are more willing to say that they feel like shit and so the rest follow suit. good on people to feel emboldened enough to admit as such but at least try to get some fuckin help.

 

[AF 802]

Nobody's really depressed and these faggots are using it to get attention that their family doesn't give them. Likely for being retarded.

 

[saisegeha]

You need death to appreciate life and you need life to appreciate death.
In third world countries, people live under horrible conditions yet most are thankful when they get to see the next day. The first world has a living standard where most of us don't have to fear anything, so instead of being productive, striving to survive, we fill the time that was meant to leave behind a legacy with countless media consumption and endlessly entertaining ourselves until we eventually die. People who have a purpose to live in the first world, whether it's a megalomaniac project or simply working toward wealth are hardly ever depressed. Most zoomers and doomers (excuse the meme terms) are upset because they're trapped within the internet (and don't use it for what it was meant for, usable information) and constantly compare themselves to others and the fake realities that people put up on social media, quite literally brainwashing the kids with influencers (back then it was just Hollywood stars). We're meant to consume information, useful information – but what most of the younger people nowadays do is consume a never ending waterfall of trash and information our brain has no use for.

That's my take on it.

 

[wylfım]

Because people are too well off and literally have nothing to imbue meaning and purpose into their lives. We thrive through struggle. There's a reason decadence always starts with the elite— those with nothing to do, whose every need has already been taken care of. Kaczynski speaks of surrogate activities, but Dostoevsky puts it much better in Notes from Underground as merely being the spiteful insistence to prove our control over our lives.

Spoiler

Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself—as though that were so necessary— that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar. And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point! He will launch a curse upon the world, and as only man can curse (it is his privilege, the primary distinction be-tween him and other animals), may be by his curse alone he will attain his object—that is, convince himself that he is a man and not a piano-key! If you say that all this, too, can be calculated and tabulated—chaos and darkness and curses, so that the mere possibility of calculating it all be-forehand would stop it all, and reason would reassert itself, then man would purposely go mad in order to be rid of reason and gain his point! I believe in it, I answer for it, for the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key! It may be at the cost of his skin, it may be by cannibalism! And this being so, can one help being tempted to rejoice that it has not yet come off, and that desire still depends on something we don’t know?

 

[Autistsforuganda2]

People always had suicidal tendencies. We just notice it more, because they talk about it day after day, because they write in forums and Blogs about it.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

You wake up and are bombarded with messaging about how fucking terrible the world is becoming and how inadequate your response to this is by a media that would tell you anything to get you to pay attention to it. You shake off most of it, but inevitably internalize bits and pieces of this bullshit that capitalize hard on your personal doubts and fears. You are accosted by idiots who tell you that what you're feeling is perfectly healthy and normal, that society just doesn't understand what a caring person you are - but they do, see. They've got a plan for you.

And so you run screaming from these nutjobs as you should, into the arms of a mental health care system that frequently can't find its own ass with both hands and a map. Here, take these thousand-dollars-a-bottle pills to curb that anxiety a bit. What do you mean, this is highway robbery? What do you mean, you can see the pharma-branded tchotchkes decorating my office? I'm just trying to help you. Calm down or I'll have you committed.

So you go home and you put two and two together. And you realize it's not going to get better. Why would it? What would the incentive be for anyone else?

 

[Recoil]

We're at a turning point in Human evolution. Everything's been moving too fast for some time now, as has been said. This is a make or break moment for our species. We must evolve spiritually and mentally, rising above it all and adapting to the new paradigm. Not all of us will be able to do this and it's no small order, as there has been no comparable advance in connectivity, media and tech since the dawn of time.

 

[mr.moon1488]

People always had suicidal tendencies. We just notice it more, because they talk about it day after day, because they write in forums and Blogs about it.

The rates are actually trending up right now and are pretty high, but you're right for the most part imo. Even some government studies overstate the uptick by not including the numbers from the 80s, and early 90s. Right now we're just a bit above the highs from that period.

Really though, where the suicide rate is abnormally high right now is the military. It's abnormally high especially when you consider how many service members in this current war, haven't been in combat.

 

[wylfım]

We're at a turning point in Human evolution. Everything's been moving too fast for some time now, as has been said. This is a make or break moment for our species. We must evolve spiritually and mentally, rising above it all and adapting to the new paradigm. Not all of us will be able to do this and it's no small order, as there has been no comparable advance in connectivity, media and tech since the dawn of time.

Evolution doesn't happen simply because it has to to ensure the continuity of the status quo.
Either society adapts to fit human nature, or it collapses. Even if someone somewhere were to be born with a mutation(s) that made them fitter for the modern world, it wouldn't propogate through the gene pool fast enough to save us. My opinion? Sit back and watch the fireworks. Dis gon b good.

 

[JB 236]

People are weak lol

No one wants to better themselves and they lack the willpower to get out of pits that they dig in life. You only hear about it because everyone lacks the filter that should be in place when talking about themselves and the internet and television are the platform to announce to anyone within earshot that they are emotional and need attention. Then other people see the reaction they get and mould themselves around it, its like a snowball effect, only its frozen piss instead of snow. At the end of the day, the conversation is pointless on depression for the truly depressed. The causes are endless but the cure is simple and easy if you're not a weak willed faggot. Better yourself emotionally and physically which only the depressed can do themselves.

The Suicidal on the other hand are a whole different ball game. If you're willing to kill yourself over something like being too fat, breaking up of a relationship, death of a family member, then you truly should kill yourself and you should be forgotten. Of course, being put in a vegetative state where your essentially plugged into a feeding tube, I can get behind wanting to neck yourself, figuratively speaking, but that goes without saying. I suppose what I mean to say is, if your a healthy male or female, able to better yourself in anyway and you lack the energy to do it then you should probably get it over with. If you're telling everyone that you're suicidal for attention or have the lack of willpower and energy with the ability to get better then you should be shunned, ignored and probably encouraged to neck yourself.

 

[Recoil]

Evolution doesn't happen simply because it has to to ensure the continuity of the status quo.
Either society adapts to fit human nature, or it collapses. Even if someone somewhere were to be born with a mutation(s) that made them fitter for the modern world, it wouldn't propogate through the gene pool fast enough to save us. My opinion? Sit back and watch the fireworks. Dis gon b good.

Physical evolution is done. The only real growth we're looking at in the forseeable future is going to be epigenetic.

 

[BlueArmedDevil]

Because people are waking up to the notion that our lives are nothing more then less of a gain of sand in the cosmic scheme of things.

 

[JoshPlz]

I think that social media plays a big role. A lot of people can't handle the internet.

 

[Microscopic mile]

I think its the general lack of meaning in life and growing detachment from people and community along with increasing seclusion from outside world, leading to people stuck in a endless cycle of day-to-day living due to a routine , monotonous schedule of most jobs these days .
People become drones and eventually stop seeing the point in living .

 

[wylfım]

Physical evolution is done. The only real growth we're looking at in the forseeable future is going to be epigenetic.

That... that's not how any of this works?