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[throneusd01]

I think the word which best describes the "opposite" of depression is "fulfillment". For myself, at least, depression is the inability to be fulfilled by those things by which I would otherwise be satisfied. This explains (in principle) the concurrence of depression and loss of/severe increase in appetite and sexual drive...Biologically speaking,

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[sparkmage]

I couldn’t watch your video because it gave me a bad link. You wrote a lot so there is a lot to respond to

[throneusd01]

"Depression for me is not being able to get up in the morning and go and do things I know I love. I just lose all will to live and feel that I’m just another ant. Although Kiera loves ants I don’t like the concept. I am scared out of my mind by a totally purposeless existence where I am easily replaced."

[throneusd01]

I failed to touch upon this certainly primary (if not defining) feature of depression: this is, in my experience, that which medication serves to diminish. While I certainly still have my times where I feel this way--and it is very much affected now more by what I'm going through than mere random chance--the general feeling of meaninglessness that for the first twenty years of my life came and went so frequently now rarely ever occurs

[throneusd01]

I find it extremely difficult to organize my thoughts without revision. I don't think I'm really getting to the point of what you said