Beyond Labels: Understanding Depression's Purpose #shorts #DepressionInsights #MentalHealthJourney

And one of the biggest problems with today's society is that we label it as, like, hey, it's okay, you know, just have depression. Like, go sit and be sad for a week in bed. Go take this medication. But they never really explain to you the cause or the why behind it. So analytical rumination, hypothesis is the understanding that depression is brought about to force us to be introspective, to look at what is persistently a problem in our life and challenge us to find the deeper issue. You know, there's been quotes and sayings where, for instance, one of the guys, I can't remember his name, but he says all of man's issues could be solved if he could but sit alone with himself in a room for 30 minutes. Well, that's what depression tries to force you to do. Why do we hide from that? Instead? Why do we think depression has to be this persistent issue? And I've come to learn now, if only I knew this back then, that my depression was persistent because I was not getting to the root or the answers of what my problem was. But I figured it out eventually, but it didn't happen in college. And so I wanted to just jump on that.