Where does depression come from? Why is it classified as a disease?
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Depression generally starts from sadness, and then it causes itself.
For instance, say your dog died. You get sad, call in sick for a couple days at work and neglect your college schoolwork a bit. You also haven’t cleaned your house in that time frame.
During the time it’d take to fix your schoolwork, you’re also trying to pick up extra hours at your job to make up for those lost days. Unfortunately, you are losing a TON of sleep, your house is getting worse, and it’s making you incredibly anxious. The lack of sleep impacts your schoolwork and your work ethic, and you slip behind again.
This happens repeatedly, because our world isn’t very kind to those who can’t keep up. I mean, the only difference between me and a homeless person is that I can afford to pay my rent this month.
Establishing it as a disease is actually incredibly helpful to our society, since it’s something that often needs an outside influence before it gets resolved, and it’s something that can often get substantially worse.
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