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The original post posits that the situation described is a facet of adulthood. There’s a kind of flippant reply on this post saying “that’s depression babe” and another saying less flippant, but equally useless comment saying “if you feel like that seek help” and both of these comments, I think, are missing the point.
The original post is partiallly correct, and these commenters are also partially correct.
Depression is an adult problem, that nearly every single adult has to grapple with at some point while living under late stage capitalism.
We live in a culture with virtually no social mobility and a nonexistent middle class, with widespread poverty and exploitation and disappearing social safety nets, where people are routinely coerced into accepting soul-crushing jobs in order to survive.
Depression in the face of these circumstances is not a matter of an individual having a problem. When a massive percentage of a society’s populace is coerced into taking soul crushing work in order to survive, depression becomes a social issue.
Don’t dismiss this as “individuals needing to seek help for their individual mental illnesses” – acknowledge that there’s something fundamentally wrong with our society as a whole, that so many individuals all feel this way.
Thoughtfulfangirling 