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Depression Rates by Country 2024

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Re: Depression Rates by Country 2024

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Often times what is understood by first-worlders as "depression" is a cluster of problems that uniquely affect decently well-off people who have been spiritually and physically subjugated by an spiritually blank industrial bureaucracy. If you measure stress, hunger, sorrow, fear, scarcity, etc. you'll find higher levels among the global poor, but if you measure "malaise, sadness, lack of purpose, emptiness, yearning…

> with friends and companions from the same culture, with the same spiritual beliefs What does this have to do with anything? I grew up in a multicultural, multireligious and multilingual part of the third world, and no one ever said or thought that we would be happier if the 'other people' were somehow disappeared. Is this coming from some sections of the modern western society blaming PoC immigrants for their unhap…

I'll answer your questions, but first out of curiosity, have you ever had any struggles with depression?

Re: Depression Rates by Country 2024

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This is essentially just (an extremely elegant) rephrasing of Marx's theory of alienation

It isn't. > To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy all your energies.' I do not recommend this cours…

How does this not fit into alienation?
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