Why's Everybody Depressed?

Everybody knows that in order to be happy we have to establish a positive mindset. However, a happy mind seems to be the ever elusive goal most people strive for every day. Why is it so hard? We live in a society that has suffocated youth with "big business" and their advertisements for decades. Sex, alcohol, cigarettes, junk food, and sugar have been shoved down our throats through billboards, magazines, and of course television. In this technological age everyone is fixated on the T.V. screen instead of being in the sun. Computers and iPhones consume an individual's attention instead of a conversation and texting someone is what we do even when we are physically with someone else! Depression is common nowadays with everybody getting in line to fill a prescription of Prozac.

There's so many things we can do to stay out of the trap the mind likes to set for us. If you're depressed you might think I don't know what it's like therefore I don't understand. Well I used to be severely depressed for a long time, and I have learned to overcome it with the help of a conscious change in my lifestyle. There are tons of things I have learned over the last couple years that I had previously been blind to. Really all we have to do is snap out of it. Waking up and literally smelling the coffee can bring you out of your funk.....even if it's just for a few seconds! Sometimes that's all the hope you need to get through the day. I know what it's like to contemplate suicide and pray to God for "the sweet release." I know what it's like to wake up and dreadfully count the seconds until I get to go to sleep again. I wished so badly that I could wake up in my dreams and become lucid or astral project into a dream reality because my waking life was so damn miserable. With my depression came crippling anxiety in all forms. From generalized to social anxiety, I was a nervous wreck that couldn't get out of bed. When I did manage to get out all I could think about was getting back in.

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