Well it’s actually true, most people feel generally okay. On social media it looks like everybody in the world is hopelessly depressed, because hopelessly depressed people post relentlessly about how hopeless and depressing the world is. Overall it’s actually not. And it won’t help to click Reply right now and angrily spew a list of reasons why I’m wrong, and give your proof that everybody else should be as depressed as you are or there must be something wrong with them. People generally focus on the things in their lives that they can control, to avoid being paralyzed with inaction. That doesn’t mean they don’t care about the world, it just means they understand that hopelessness and depression don’t help.
I don’t get anxiety. The fuck you’re scared of? You just wake up and be scared? Of what?
I just don’t get it.
I get it that you’re scared when driving a car, because everyone sucks at driving except me.
But how could one be anxious all the time? Could one please explain like I‘m mentally handicapped?
Are you joking around or do you want a serious answer?
Actually yes. This might be classified as a boomer mindset or something like that. But how can anyone be scared all the time? I get depression, but anxiety? Alien.
Imagine any time you’ve felt a worry or fear of something, but imagine it’s being said by another person. They will not shut up. You have to listen to them. You know they’re wrong, logically, but they’re very convincing and keep going on. I mean, they’re not wrong. While unlikely, the car next to you COULD suddenly swerve and hit you. It’s not impossible. They’re getting louder. They will not shut up. They get louder again. They will still not shut up. They drown out every sound. You can’t hear anything else but how this terrible bad thing is going to happen.
If you don’t then you’re either not paying attention or something is wrong with you. The correct response to the state of the world is depression and anxiety
Being depressed and being anxious are not the same thing as the medical conditions known colloquially as “depression” and “anxiety”.
Equivocating the two is part of the reason mental health treatment is stigmatized, and is what causes dangerously-dismissive statements like “he can’t have depression, he has a good life”.