What causes sadness and depression?

[Kaaron]

I've got a psychological issue with anti-depressants, on principle. Taking them makes me feel worse.
I feel some sense of freedom when I don't.
The one I'm on (Wellbutrin) is supposed to give you energy, but I still sleep 12-16 hours a day.

I read somewhere that if you go to sleep meditating, you wake up in the same state.
Imagine 12-16 hours extra meditation per day...

[smc]

the anti-depressant I take is very simple - it balances the levels of serotonin in the brain - it's akin to insulin balancing the blood sugar level of diabetes... I was completely nervous about taking it and frightened - but it was completely the right thing for me

If you believe that, fine it works for you.

It's not true, though.

ahahaha!



“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
― Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters

[Billy]

I've been struggling with depression and feelings of intense loneliness for a number of years now. I've just accepted that it will always be with me in one form or another. It is always there in the background and sometimes it will come to the foreground and make itself known with quite an intensity. I used to be on antidepressants but came off of them a little while ago, which was hell.

I don't really have any solutions but just wanted to let you know that you are not alone in your experience Gemini. Thinking of you often makes me smile, and for that, I want to thank you.

[BlatzAdict]

I have everything going for me.
I'm on disability so I don't have to work.
I have a dog that I love.
And anthros, they are so beautiful.

But why do I feel sadness and depression?

Is there a metaphysical reason?
Or is it a chemical imbalance in the brain?

I swear, I try to feel happy or joy, and I cannot.

A far cry from where I was just a few days ago.

Sometimes it makes my heart physically hurt.

And it disturbs my sleep to where I don't even get rest.

I feel like the Logos must feel with all the sadness and despair in the world,
and having to feel all that. And the Logos never gets rest.
It has to keep the physics of the galaxy working. It can't get a wink of sleep.

Even anti-depressants don't really work.

desire causes depression.