"The world is changing, I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it in the air, much that once was is lost, for non now live who remember it" _ Lord Of The Rings- the fellowship of the rings - 2001.
Emphasis can not be over stated on the awareness of the growing rate of depression in this century, depression here being ‘a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity’ a depressed person is plagued by ‘sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy’. But why is there an increase in this abnormal mental state? Is it the advancement in data collection that has been acquired over the centuries that has brought this into light being that it’s not an increase but the same statistics only now known because the means of data collection and collation has been upgraded or advanced? Or perhaps it is indeed a growing enigma that needs to be studied and understood from its root cause? And if so what is the root cause for the rise in depression?
One has to be careful when dealing with a matter such as this that spans over centuries being that one can only speak for the century that one knows of, especially if the preceding centuries had limitation as regards technology and means of recording such data. However, if a thing has risen to the point of an epidemic/enigma, the centuries that followed after would have records from the century preceding it giving knowledge of such a thing, say the plague, a disease that wiped out villages, kingdoms and cities in the 14th century, preceding centuries now know of such an epidemic because records were kept and preserved over centuries because of the severity of such a thing, for this reason it is fair to say that if depression in centuries passed was so much of an enigma then records would have been collected and preserved to show its severity, however where such fails to exist then it can be argued that it was present but had not broken passed the threshold to warrant it a wide spread enigma.
In our definition of depression above, I would like to point out a part of interest that should not be over looked, one key characterizing feature of depression is “.... a despondent lack of activity...” this lack of activity which can be physical and or mental activity will lead the person to be plagued by ‘sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy’. Many things give rise to depression, it will be agreed though that what makes the attention of an individual to linger on one energy (ideas here being energy) is the lack of the presence of a more stronger energy that will take the mental wheel of the individual’s mental point of focus.
Man has always searched for an easier way to achieve tasks, ways that will require him to exert less mental energy but get more output in productivity, the downside to this is; as output in productivity rises, the inward mental productivity decreases to no more than a mare push on a button, in older time, the crudeness attached to achieving tasks required more mental exertion and less productivity or at most equal productivity as regards the level of mental exertion accompanying it, but why work hard when you can have someone or something do it for you? perhaps this is the basis for slavery,
As centuries passed and man became even more intelligent, slavery changed its form into a more intellectual shape as technology grew and the need to ‘put in less but gain more’ became a desired thing and as man needed not to exert ‘energy’ to achieve productivity social structures, intellectual structures, and in some cases even sexual structures began to slowly crumble, giving rise to a race of digital zombies fingering their way through life without attachment to the constructs of its energy. So as the mind slowly lingered on one simple energy, and the innate need for it to constantly be aroused by stronger energies wasn’t being achieved, the feelings of ‘inadequacy and gloom’ slowly filled it’s inactivity.
So it is with minds that unless you keep them busy, focused on some evolving subject, they become idle and an idle mind is the devils workshop and the devils name is Depression.
Emphasis can not be over stated on the awareness of the growing rate of depression in this century, depression here being ‘a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity’ a depressed person is plagued by ‘sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy’. But why is there an increase in this abnormal mental state? Is it the advancement in data collection that has been acquired over the centuries that has brought this into light being that it’s not an increase but the same statistics only now known because the means of data collection and collation has been upgraded or advanced? Or perhaps it is indeed a growing enigma that needs to be studied and understood from its root cause? And if so what is the root cause for the rise in depression?
One has to be careful when dealing with a matter such as this that spans over centuries being that one can only speak for the century that one knows of, especially if the preceding centuries had limitation as regards technology and means of recording such data. However, if a thing has risen to the point of an epidemic/enigma, the centuries that followed after would have records from the century preceding it giving knowledge of such a thing, say the plague, a disease that wiped out villages, kingdoms and cities in the 14th century, preceding centuries now know of such an epidemic because records were kept and preserved over centuries because of the severity of such a thing, for this reason it is fair to say that if depression in centuries passed was so much of an enigma then records would have been collected and preserved to show its severity, however where such fails to exist then it can be argued that it was present but had not broken passed the threshold to warrant it a wide spread enigma.
In our definition of depression above, I would like to point out a part of interest that should not be over looked, one key characterizing feature of depression is “.... a despondent lack of activity...” this lack of activity which can be physical and or mental activity will lead the person to be plagued by ‘sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy’. Many things give rise to depression, it will be agreed though that what makes the attention of an individual to linger on one energy (ideas here being energy) is the lack of the presence of a more stronger energy that will take the mental wheel of the individual’s mental point of focus.
Man has always searched for an easier way to achieve tasks, ways that will require him to exert less mental energy but get more output in productivity, the downside to this is; as output in productivity rises, the inward mental productivity decreases to no more than a mare push on a button, in older time, the crudeness attached to achieving tasks required more mental exertion and less productivity or at most equal productivity as regards the level of mental exertion accompanying it, but why work hard when you can have someone or something do it for you? perhaps this is the basis for slavery,
As centuries passed and man became even more intelligent, slavery changed its form into a more intellectual shape as technology grew and the need to ‘put in less but gain more’ became a desired thing and as man needed not to exert ‘energy’ to achieve productivity social structures, intellectual structures, and in some cases even sexual structures began to slowly crumble, giving rise to a race of digital zombies fingering their way through life without attachment to the constructs of its energy. So as the mind slowly lingered on one simple energy, and the innate need for it to constantly be aroused by stronger energies wasn’t being achieved, the feelings of ‘inadequacy and gloom’ slowly filled it’s inactivity.
So it is with minds that unless you keep them busy, focused on some evolving subject, they become idle and an idle mind is the devils workshop and the devils name is Depression.
So conclusively I guess keeping busy is the best solution to this depression issue
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