Do you think depression has become a fad of sorts? Doesn't the fact that everyone is walking around wearing black and talking about how shitty everything is when in reality they have it good is annyoing?
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True depression is a medical condition whcih sufferers want to be rid of (once they realise that it is treatable). Such depression is NOT something to be 'adopted' by anyone! If some people are going around, perhaps to attract some sort of sympathy, they are suffering from another affliction (which will probably need some sort of treatment if not eventually assuaged). This behaviour can be annoying if its cause is misunderstood.
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I think to call real clinical depression a fad is an insult to the people suffering. It is as legitimate as heart disease or other medical conditions. As for "everyone walking around in black and talking about how shi**y everything is,": That might be what you see and hear, but I have not. Johnny Cash was one of the few I ever saw (on TV only) who always wore black, and he didn't talk about how bad a life he had (even though it had been very rough). I guess I don't see how you or I can really know if people who might talk about how bad things are for them actually have it "good." Perhaps family members or friends, but even then we cannot feel what they feel. I think the question is highly subjective, and because it is your opinion or perhaps observing of some people, I find it a very difficult question to answer. But generalizing that everyone is wearing black and that "depression has become a fad" I would have to disagree with, even though I do not know your specific situation. That is an easy part that I can answer with confidence.
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i dont know what was realy wrong with the question but i sometimes think it is .kinda like emo the music is making kids more depressed and all it is a bunch o f little whiny kids,everyone thinks that bein emo is cool and its not.its a medical condition that i have.ive been depressed when i was 15 and been in a home for it and it sucks ..im 31 now and i get depresed pretty bad and i never done anything to take care of it.i get winter depression every year and the only thing i think in my mind is thatleaving michigan is the only way 2 do it and i dont .so pretty much back to the subject ,its all a fad unless they are realy depressed .i think the music is so corny and it shouldnt leave kids to wanting or to killing themselves.
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I think it certainly is a fad in some respects. Kids who have friends who are genuinely depressed sometimes glorify the condition and try to emulate their friends. It's not "cool", it's just different, it's a way to have a new identity. This is especially true with cutting, which seems to run rampant in circles of adolescent girls.
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I don't know about depression, but the second question is really sad. I've read a LOT of history, not just about wars but about everyday life, and anyone before 1900 who woke up in our time wouldn't be able to believe how good life can be. Or how foolish we are not to appreciate it or strive to preserve it.
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I like metal, i dress in mostly black, and suffer drom clinically diagnosed chronic depression, however, these are all irrelevant to eachother, i think black looks good on me, most of my school listens to metal i was raised on it, and i dont go around bitching about my life or cutting. Your just expressing a new stereotype, and yeah ive seen it too.
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