I sound like a hippy...

[resist_anywhere]

Life is so incredibly good and easy if you let it be.  I feel like everyone who's depressed and despairing, including me for the vast majority of my life, is or was just bored and craving attention.  The only requirement for happiness is the will to be happy.  The only requirement for love is the belief that you're worthy of it.  You just have to

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[papacanfly]

hah, awesome! I remember when I had THAT moment. I was in front of the computer none the less, but still, it was awesome.

[sano_]

> I feel like everyone who's depressed and despairing, including me for the vast majority of my life, is or was just bored and craving attention.

Because, you know, everyone is born with perfect brain chemical balance. Damn them for being depressed! They're just emo jerks!

[resist_anywhere]

I've been depressed most of my life, too, like I said. My mom and dad both spent most of their lives crushingly depressed. I still believe that you can change your mood to change your chemical balance. I realize that the vast majority of people don't agree with me, which is why I'm not trying to get in everybody's faces about it. I am just posting my opinions to my personal journal.

[sano_]

> I still believe that you can change your mood to change your chemical balance.

This is true, but it's bad form to start using umbrella statements like "everyone who is depressed is just craving attention." Depression can stem from a lot of things such as anxiety or fear, and I'm not saying you're entirely wrong because conditions such as the ones you stated do occur.

[resist_anywhere]

Depression can stem from anxiety and fear? Then why is it way more prevalent in first-world than third-world countries, for example? Or in the suburbs than in the ghettoes and barrios?