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Gotta look at which way the cookie crumbles or the beam shears - how stress is distributed in a system.

If you take for granted that there is a large amount of emotional strain floating around, where are the outlets?

Men bottle it up and retake control (school shootings, as an extreme).

People with precarious lives can express the stress as worry and fear (mostly women).

Depression is a luxury version of stress - not happy, but also physically safe and not worried for your well-being. "White liberal female teens" = privilege.




Depression is a spectrum of presentations, and severe cases render you entirely unable to work. In turn that means your physical well being is at risk if you depend on salary to keep yourself housed and fed.


> Depression is a luxury version of stress - not happy, but also physically safe and not worried for your well-being.

That certainly is A Take on Depression.


One of the main attitudes that perpetuates and exacerbates depression, imo.

Let's not forget that depression can end in death through suicide. It's a serious life-threatening illness.


Suicide also appears to be a"luxury":

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/401-450/db450-fig...

I'd be interested in the explanation behind the aforementioned.


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What are you talking about? The person you're replying to didn't mention any of those things


> How did you become so misinformed?

Personal attacks are against the site rules. Don't post like this here.




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