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People go through all kinds of mental gymnastics to make themselves sad/depressed, but often times refuse to do the same to make themselves happy. amirite?

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Its super weird; Almost like humans are addicted to depression? Maybe that's not the right way to say it?

@donna Its super weird; Almost like humans are addicted to depression? Maybe that's not the right way to say it?

I think it's more of that we're all prone to taking the path of least resistance. And often times the path of least resistance is the one where we choose to be sad about everything around us instead of working on being happy. Sounds dumb but that's my perspective I guess

It's like a jungle gym were depression is a slide and happiness is the monkey bars

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it is evolution.

we have evolved to think negatively as to wish to improve our conditions of living as opposed to being satisfied with them.

Depression is a medical condition. Telling someone with depression to "try harder to be happy" is not helpful. Would you tell someone with a chronic illness to "try harder to get healthy"?

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