In the past, there was a shortage of living materials, but there was almost no depression. Now there are more and more. Why?

Depression is a complicated psychological change process, which comes from reality and is deeply hidden in reality. When it appears on the outside, it is already a thing of the past.

In the past, material life was relatively poor, and people's goal was only to meet the low level of "having enough to eat and wear warm clothes". There is no excessive pursuit of spiritual life. A movie or a cultural performance every month is the best spiritual enjoyment.

I remember that at that time in the evening, adults gathered together to chat and tell stories, especially there were many legends or ghost stories. The more they listened, the more scared they were, but the more they wanted to hear them. And the children will go to hide and seek in the field at the head of the village and don't go home until midnight.

Although poor, everyone is happy. This kind of happiness is what we call "poor happiness".

On the other hand, nowadays, the material life has been greatly enriched. Gone are the days when supplies were provided with tickets and jiaozi was counted as Chinese New Year. Old people have repeatedly warned young people to cherish their present life and "be content"! However, because of the trend of reform and opening up, people have completely subverted the old ideas in the past: "My ideal is" and "My goal is" ... dissatisfaction has become a normal state.

For the pursuit of new things, we all know the cruel reality that 1% of people will succeed, 4% will be frustrated and 5% will fail. Obviously, all people are the same, and they all live in a similar environment. Why do some people succeed and others fail?

Therefore, people who are unwilling to admit defeat will continue to struggle, or even put all their energy and assets into it. This kind of gambling-style "last fight" is often ineffective or even unsuccessful. Although some people have succeeded, they are also "tired and bruised". Their state reflects another reality: people go high, but they can't stand the cold at high places!

In order to bring a happy life to the family, the dream was shattered, and some people paid a huge price for it-they were in debt.

So, the result has come out. Why are there more and more people suffering from depression now?

In a society with repeated defeats, no way out and fierce competition, people's spiritual needs are hard to meet, and after many disappointments, they have desperate eyes.

With the rapid development of society, people's thinking is hard to adapt. If we can't find a countermeasure at this time, we will fall into the quagmire of "God won't help me".

as the saying goes, grief is greater than death in the heart.

This is the inner portrayal of depressed patients. Am I being too blunt?

what should I do?

my advice is: defeat and fight again and again, and catch up. As long as you don't stop struggling, you will catch up with the big army one day. When you look back, you will be surprised to find: Wow, I have surpassed many people! This is what we usually say: it's not enough compared with the previous one, but it's more than enough compared with the next one.

what anxiety? What depression? These bad psychology will disappear in the little achievements you have made.

remember: change what can be changed and accept what cannot be changed.

yes.

At present, the prevalence of depression is increasing and getting younger.

It is reported that about 5 out of 1 children are depressed.

When I was in the hospital, I saw an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old depression. They were all boys with naive faces, and they were depressed at the age when they didn't know what depression was. From then on, it was a hard and painful life.

why?

ask yourself, today's children can grow up healthily even if they travel back in time.

and we are reborn to the present, and we are equally likely to be depressed.

Look, the pressure of learning is overwhelming. "As soon as you open your eyes, you start to compete.". I won once, no, I have to win again.

Although I have no worries about food and clothing, I enjoy the meticulous care of my parents in my life, but once I fail in the exam, my parents are no longer my parents, so fierce and ferocious. How can there be a sense of security and happiness?

In the era of material scarcity, an egg, a piece of fat, a balloon and a crayon are enough to be very happy for several days.

Nowadays, children are pursuing spiritual needs. But parents can't supply it. The children's mental deprivation now is equal to the material deprivation in the past.

Don't do anything. You are required to study, make up lessons and brush questions all the time. You can't play crazy with children, you can't be in a daze, you can't develop hobbies. The soul is always on the run. Living a miserable and boring life, but unable to fight. Suffering year after year, the suffering is endless.

Life without happiness, relaxation, sports, friendship and hobbies is not a human life, but a learning machine. Can you not be depressed?

Even if you are an adult, with the same pattern and intensity, working and overtime, how long do you think you can last?

This problem really deserves attention. There are more and more patients with depression around me, and I feel that this disease is younger and more extensive.

I'm not a doctor, so I'll talk about it from two perspectives:

1. With the development of information, people's desires are detonated again and again, and the law that pies don't fall in the sky makes their desires hit again and again. Over time, they will be afraid to reach out like snails.

the progress of people's civilization is first driven by the economy, and then the values, social outlook and outlook on life will be adjusted to an appropriate degree. The more advanced the civilization, the more complicated the problems it will face. When the individual's life experience deviates from the cognition in his brain and cannot be solved, disorder will occur.

Review Maslow's demand theory. The first layer is the demand for survival; The second layer is security requirements; The third layer is the need to love and be loved; The fourth is the need for respect; The highest level is the demand for self-realization.

then, when things are scarce, people can have enough to eat, marry and have children to carry on the family line, even if the society is a little chaotic. Now, it's different. People face more problems and are restricted in various ways.

2. Learning is very important. Read more about the so-called "national studies".

You can see a lot of Confucian culture in China, which will tell us a lot about how to be a man, and then say that doing things is an official, and so on. I don't evaluate its herdsman thought, which will definitely make a person strong.

I'm full of debt, and I want to "get rid of this life" several times, but I won't admit defeat when I think about my children and the value deviation in my heart. A good friend of my wife bought a BMW and moved to a new house last year, but this year she suffers from depression, and she is always unconscious. Of course, women may be more fragile than us men, but it's not so bad. If you want to be depressed, I've been depressed dozens of times.

In short, I hope everyone can broaden their horizons and find their own absolute coordinates, which is more than enough. Don't keep your eyes and ears closed. It's wrong to "feel sorry for yourself" and "why not eat minced meat" in relative coordinates.

the country is strong and the people are rich. I hope everyone is well.

In the past, although materials were scarce, people's mental outlook was positive. Everyone cared for each other and helped each other, and life was relaxed and happy. The most important thing is: there is no need to worry about buying a house, seeing a doctor or going to school. Everyone does their job wholeheartedly and is full of thoughts about the future. Everyone is equal regardless of their position. Many people take doing good deeds to serve the people as the standard. Many children are determined to be scientists when they grow up, learning from Chen Jingrun, Hua Luogeng, Qian Xuesen, Deng Jiaxian and other scientists as their ideal role models in the future, and doing good deeds without leaving a name. Although life is hard, everyone is in the same boat, struggling hard, sharing weal and woe, and no one plays the privilege, let alone abuse power for personal gain. A large number of well-behaved and selfless doctors have emerged in the medical industry, known as angels in white. The social atmosphere is booming. Teachers love students, and students respect teachers. When looking for someone to marry, they rarely consider the issue of money. Any house can be used as a wedding room. Everyone embodies the quality of equality and mutual help. As long as one person works, the whole family can live a simple and comfortable life even if there are seven or eight people, and they never need to worry about food safety. There are almost no disputes between doctors and patients. Now it is much richer materially than before, but the meat is not as fragrant as before, and the vegetables are not as delicious as before. You have to peel the fruit to eat steadily. Now people's life pressure is generally increasing. First of all, it is expensive to see a doctor, expensive housing, expensive schooling, and high cost of raising children. There is nothing to worry about. Money is needed everywhere, work is unstable, income is unstable, and the expenses in life will not stop for a moment. This is the root of people's general anxiety now. If this kind of emotion is not released for a long time, it will inevitably make people depressed, so it is inevitable that more and more people suffer from depression.

Hello, thank you for your trust and inviting me to answer.

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In response to this confusion, I share some opinions:

First of all, I feel your keen observation: by comparing past and present changes, it seems that there are more and more depression now.

Secondly, I also learned from the question that here, you implied a hypothesis:

There is a certain relationship between depression and material abundance.

This assumption is very common. People often think that everyone is looking for ways to feed themselves and satisfy their food and clothing when they are short of materials. "Even if you don't have enough to eat, you should be depressed."

But there are two parts to clarify under this hypothesis:

First, there is no necessary relationship between the occurrence of depression and the material degree.

I explained the causes of depression in detail in my previous answer, so I won't repeat them here. Interested partners can go through my previous answer.

Second, depression was not invisible before, but the degree of psychological science popularization was limited, and many depression were ignored or misdiagnosed, resulting in reduced visibility.

In the past, most people were struggling for survival because of lack of material resources, so they had no time to take care of their mental health. A large number of studies have shown that people in many poor areas are suffering from depression, but limited by the economic level, these people are unable to get attention.

With the improvement of living standards, people begin to pay more attention to their mental health, which also makes the disease of depression more exposed and visible. Coupled with the Internet age, the speed of information dissemination is ten million times faster than before, and depression has become more widely known.

I hope the above sharing will inspire you.

I don't explore human nature, but only care about people's psychology. Thank you for taking the time to read this reply.

When living materials are scarce, there are a lot of depression, but people are poor and crazy, and they don't care about depression, just their mouths and stomachs.

If they have enough food and clothing and lust, they will have more ideas, their thoughts will be active and their desires will increase, which will cause some confusion in their minds.

There were some before, but you just didn't know it. In the past, the internet and self-media were not so developed, and everything was spread in a small range. Word of mouth, which family had any patients and where there was any disaster, all were hearsay, and I didn't know whether it was depression or mental illness. Anyway, if you die, you will die. If you are crazy, you will be crazy. If you commit suicide, you just don't want to live. No one can tell what disease it is. Unlike a lot of online terms now, the technical terms are also very accurate, and there are a lot of experts, and laymen have become experts. They speak clearly and vividly, and anyone can freely comment and express their professional opinions. It is not depression that is also called depression.

Some people say that depression is a disease of wealth, worrying too much and having nothing to do. Some people say that depression is inner loneliness, dissatisfaction with life, no place to vent, and stagnation into illness. Others say that the internet is too developed now, and depression is piled up by saliva. In a word, different people have different opinions. In a word, life is too stressful.

It's very simple. If there is a shortage of materials, the pace will be slow. If the pace is slow, this person will be leisurely, and he will have leisure time to enjoy spiritual things. In the past, people of the older generation, including us when we were young, actually enjoyed things that were invisible and intangible, regardless of whether they understood what the material and spiritual aspects were. Therefore, although it was backward in the 197s and 198s or earlier, there were countless memories. Nowadays, people have no worries about food and clothing, but they just work every day and live like cattle and horses. I have no time to rest, think about the future, take care of my family, and spend time with my wife and children, but even though I am busy all day and walking on thin ice every day, I still can't get the life I want. Can I not be depressed at this time? The result of the fast pace is busyness, stress and anxiety. In fact, I envy the older generation. We can still have a lot of memories when we are in the twilight. Our generation is estimated to be old and have a blank mind. Assembly lines, factories, construction sites? Life is like a soulless machine.

People live to meet all kinds of needs, including material needs (eating, drinking, sleeping) and psychological needs (security, acceptance and recognition, love needs). If the needs are not met, people can't live and grow normally and healthily, and they will get sick or even die. Of course, material needs are priority, and psychological needs will be highlighted only when material needs are met.

In the past, when people were short of materials, of course, the priority was to eat. If they couldn't meet their material needs, they couldn't care about their psychological needs. However, in recent years, people's material needs have been greatly met, and their psychological needs have naturally emerged. However, people's psychological needs have not been met at all since childhood, so they are all short. Therefore, various psychological diseases are bound to occur, just like long-term malnutrition and physical illness!

The most important thing is that people don't realize their psychological needs and don't know how important they are!

That's a good question. It's a concern for society. Indeed, in the era of lack of materials, people only worked hard to survive better, but now the conditions are much better, and there are more dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction. People often have bad reactions in comparison!