Why does depression seem to be such a huge problem among radicals?

Why does depression seem to be such a huge problem among radicals?

Most lefties I meet have either drug habits or take some type of medicine. And they're usually miserable and kind of prone to having episodes.

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because putting on the glasses is painful and sucks.

I would go back to being blissfully ignorant if I could.

I'm too drunk all the time to contemplate why I'm drunk

I drink a lot too, no medicine so far though

This is something I honestly believe no truly enlightened person would ever say

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I gave up on medication when it made me indifferent to music. I'd rather live depressed than not feel something for the art that I've always loved.

I think a lot of people will say that leftists are bleak and depressed because they see the patterns in history and see the world for what it is, but I suspect it may be the other way around.

Perhaps the reason we went searching for the answers we've found is because we wanted to know why there seemed to be so little joy in the world for us. Perhaps our melancholy insulated us, kept us from finding solace or satisfaction in easy answers and comforting lies.

I was suffering long before I was a socialist.

Have you tried countering it with weed

What about righties? Do they have no problems?

Too much idealism and theory.

They struggle with shit like social anxiety

I was depressive before that, being a lefty actually helped me because I've gotten more aware of what happens around me.

Fucking this, I was in a way worse state before becoming a communist. Marxism actually helped me make sense of why the world is the shithole that it is. It meant I started directing my anger rather than being a self hating little bitch.

You all need a boyfriend! Anyway maybe its that you desire a change of society but there is no movement around thus making you feel powerless.

Mentally healthy people with basic needs fulfilled don't become radicalized.

Ressentiment and mental illnesses go hand in hand.

kek, that's what the comfy living standard of the First World does to you. All needs fullfilled = being a consumerist pig that's kept busy with wageslavery. Plus you don't need to look into the faces of those who suffer under capitalism.

Just go to Africa, South America or whatever, plenty of "mentally healthy" people with a stable life became radicalized.

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Resentment causes mental illness. While some people are genetically predisposed towards mental illness or simply born with it, the material and cultural (sorry Marx) conditions will cause the resentment and in consequence the mental illness.

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Repressing your homosexuality does this, or at least I experienced it and had many of my buddies experience it through their 20s. At 30 most finally came around and embraced it, doesn't mean you have to be flamboyant or overcompensate, just get it out to the world that you like men. Guarantee most of you will feel better.

Or date a chick and fap to guys. Eventually you might get into girls.

Remember that homosexuality is a mental illness that only has been removed from the ICD because of political correctness and IdPol.

Rad right is the norm, at least where I live. Preachers of right are seen as analytical or rebellious or edgy even though literally everyone says the same stuff. I'd be surprised if praise and popularity won you drug/depression problems.

idk. i'm on meds for depression. but it's not so much due to politics for me

Calling homosexuality a mental illness is IDPol

liberals call it minority stress

I hate pretty much everything about everything because I see the potential squandered.


Did that. Didn't remove capitalism's influence from my life.


No dude my right wing idpol is the only alternative to idpol! like wowie zowie you degen!

The truth isn't fun.

Paranoid personality disorder and involuntary celibacy generally.

Dating doesn't help. I thought so too but I seem even more depressed now. Probably doesn't help that I'm constantly attacked for advocating for revolution and defending comrade Stalin. I'd rather go back to being alone.

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Mental weakness is a precursor to leftist thought patterns.

I was recently diagnosed with major depressive disorder by my shrink and I can 100% say it wouldn't have been this bad if I wasn't a lefty who lives in a country with conscription.

change that to mental health conditions and I will agree.

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No fap day 2 and i'm feeling more energy.

I'm still too depressed to do anything.

really pissed that EVEN THOUGH MY CITY WAS BLUE MY FUCKING STATE WENT TO TRUMP

getting REALLY fucking sick of hick town assholes ruining everything for the left. no one even cares about them and i can't wait until theyre shitty little system vomes crashing down on them

if they could iust get off their asses and get educated we wouldn't have a literal cheeto as a president.

ive just been feel sickk everyday. i dont even want to work anymore. parents are helping me with my bills because im just too depressed to function. my dad doesnt want to help me anymore because he's a homophobe but my mom is still defending me so thats good

Nice.
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While right-wingers tend to be just desperately associating themselves with successful people with the excuse of "race"

If you have higher than average intelligence and are a good person, women will be disgusted by you. You can't be happy without a gf

Bogi te vagy az?

kys faggot.

Sorry, what?

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Once again, the right wing proves its lack of historical knowledge. Or maybe this wasn't intended to be accurate.

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if im gonna be honest, most of my radicalisation took place while i was suicidal. i think it might be the same for a lot of other folks

It's probably that radicals are typically those disaffected and dissatisfied with society. It should be no surprise that they are miserable. Drug habits and medicine may be used to mitigate the misery.

What purpose would radicalism serve to someone who is entirely satisfied with life? Justifying the risks becomes more difficult if you feel you have more to lose.

Because life sucks user.

Kek.
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It's always good to see you friend

I hope you get a gf

no gf is the most powerful feel, regardless of ideology

You can do it, nogf nazi! Believe in yourself!

Weak, comrade.

I don't have a waifu

M'comrade.

Yeah, I think it's this. There really is a confounding variable in the correlation between leftism and depression, and that's an extreme sense of skepticism – especially in a society which has labeled the radical left is extremely taboo.

The Leftist has enough skepticism to respond to "communism is responsible for the death of 60 million people and they're evil," with wondering if maybe communists are the good guys. It's this kind of analysis of things that most people just "assume," that is also co-morbid with the over-analysis and constant existential discontent of depression.

I used to smoke before I really knew about the left, I still drink and wank, but with moderation. The left gives me purpose, as faggy as it sounds, I want to give my life to the revoltion, to build communism, I feel better than ever.

There's a waifu for everyone, user. She's out there waiting for you to find her. Go to nyaa.se or bakabt.me and start searching.

I may just be stupid but I don't think that's at all true.

depression and your susceptibility to it is biological and mediated by genetics

so to say "I was suffering long before I was a socialist." is stating the obvious.

your beliefs may contribute to it (having a worldview that teaches you the status quo as it stands is irredeemable dogshit will likely contribute to it) but ultimately the cause is within the person itself.


the historical nazis were more mentally fucked than an 1880's loon house

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kill me

That's ok friend, i still can respect you as my fellow human being

Too bad I have no respect for myself.

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Depression is the sane answer to a sick world.

Pretty much everybody uses drugs. If you don't drink booze you drink coffee unless you're some kind of vegan anti gluten only pure vegetable mash and meditating type.

Beyond that drugs are fun and a good way to socialise. People are hard wired to be threatened by large groups of unfamiliar people, but when these primal instincts are dulled more communication can take place, therefore advancing most all dialectical movements.

I think everyone is depressed and the internet has made it worse by increasing the general social isolation people feel. When you spend more time talking to strangers on Twitter or watching netflix than spending time with friends or family I can't see things going well. I think I cope as well as I do because I'm an introvert that has always preferred alone time. Coupled with hopelessness for the future derived from no jobs and a collapsing environment I think the people that aren't depressed are the ones outside the norm.

me too, friend