RE: Why do we see so much depression in the world, and to what extent is the negative media responsible for it? - Ecotrain Question of the Week
and one that we almost never see in nature or in other animals..
I have seen it all the time in animals. It is just that in animals, it is usually terminal.
Never before have we ignored and pushed our aging society into oblivion without any care, love or respect.
Well, never before have we thrown the kids out at 18. Never before have we left kids at home to fend for themselves. The baby boomer generation was the first that parents tried to continue living their pre-child patterns. And their neglect has come around to bite them in the ass.
And then social welfare allowed women to get pregnant from all the bad boys without facing the dire consequences of that, and thus ... we don't have a bunch of dead-beat dads, we have a bunch of father's who would never have stayed in the first place, chosen by women.
So, we do not have a family nor a community any more. And, as you say, no emotional support.
Now, none of these is the cause of depression, but they all play a factor.
Depression is caused by poor health, or in the same terms, poor emotions. In our society, depression is caused by unresolved trauma and the lack of completing the grieving process.
Thanks for your inputs as always! Trauma is a reason for depression, but not the leading cause i think. Most american kids have not suffered trauma but they are often depressed.. i think due to lack of parental nurture and insufficient bonding with family members
I think differently. Being raised without a father is a very serious trauma, called abandonment.
Everyone i have helped with depression has always turned out to be some unresolved trauma.
interesting.. me same.. lost my dad at 3 months age.. he died very young.. nevertheless.... i can think of a very many cases where that is very much not the case! most depressed kids with 2 parents are depressed for the reasons i have stated.. rather than trauma.. unless you count emotional abandonment.. which is a similar thing...
Yes, i count emotional abandonment as trauma. And it is one of the worst, because you don't have anything solid to point to.
This is even more exacerbated when you have a child of a narcissist. Where, the child is emotionally abandoned, of often emotionally tormented, but to the outside, the parent has always been there and seems to be nice enough.
yeah m x wife can tell you ALL about that..
well then I agree with you because emotional abandonment is the same as lacking real nurturing relationships.. or being alone..
sorry life has been so rough <3