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[โ€“] greyw0lv@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 months ago

Oh that's me. I'm tired and bored so I'll share my story.

I was "depressed" because of working an abusive toxic job and commuting 2 hours a day for dimes. While at the same time spending my free time in the doomerism of r/fvckcars

Filled out the doctor's questionaire and was diagonised with anxiety, and depression. I even had the bottle of pills before the hour was even over.

Lost the job, and swapped my pass-time from pessimistic r/fvckcars to more optimistics YouTube/notjustbikes

No more depression, never needed those anti-depressants because it was never a proper chemical depression.

To many doctors just want to medicate the symptoms and never bother to consider the sickness underneath.