What makes you feel depressed?

[final-dimension]

Well,sometimes when I think about certain things I feel depressed and confused.
Just want to know about you...

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

What make me feel depressed? Gold fish; yes, indeed, gold fish.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

It grips me from the unconscious, I usually don't know when it's coming.

 

[final-dimension]

I am serious,sometimes thinking about the reason of my existence makes me really depressed.
Also thinking that I someday have to face the real world makes me feel depressed. Thinking that everything that I am doing might not really matter in the end makes me feel depressed.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

The people at school and the whole system of school itself make me feel really depressed. As well as grey skies. And thinking about existence, and how others view me... And the daily 9 to 5 shit life :/

Lots of things make me depressed, I'm going to see a psychologist for it because I've actually lost all motivation in the last few months.

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

. And the daily 9 to 5 shit life :/

And just to think 300 years ago you would have been relegated to a life of subsistence. Toiling endlessly on a farm for 14 hours a day attempting to grow enough food to last you through the winter. Watch out for that plague.

 

[final-dimension]

same here

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

The people at school and the whole system of school itself make me feel really depressed.

In this regard I think it is perfectly reasonable to depressed. There is something seriously wrong with the structure of the education system. Locked in a room for six hours a day, with people you don't like and a psychopath in charge. University is no different apart from the fact that the psychopath has more power.

 

[final-dimension]

In this regard I think it is perfectly reasonable to depressed. There is something seriously wrong with the structure of the education system. Locked in a room for six hours a day, with people you don't like and a psychopath in charge. University is no different apart from the fact that the psychopath has more power.

Haha,yeah.

 

[Sosekopp]

Thinking of all the children who suffer from their parents' ignorance (about vaccines, for instance).

EDIT:
Also:
More serious depressions occur if I can't distract myself from contemplating the meaninglessness of my existence. This is often caused by boredom.

 

[Architect]

The closest I come is when bored - I become unmotivated, listless and down. Unlike, I guess, a lot of INTP's I learned how to get work done when I was younger, and it is probably my most useful skill.

I make sure I have a lot of things going on to prevent boredom from happening too often.

 

[WittyUsername]

Absolutely nothing.

Depression is a strong word.

I may get upset over animal violence, or my father never understanding me, routine and repetitiveness, or the superfluous nature of society, or genital torture.

But depressed? Never.

 

[Nocturne]

Hmmm.. mostly because of ignorant people.

 

[Bird]

JarNew.

 

[JarNew]

What makes me depressed is doing the same thing over and over

Not going through with plans and procrastination

Lack of sun

Lack of movement

 

[Anchorite]

The near future and the distant past, only in regards to my own life.
The girl in my Psychology class that didn't know who fought the Civil War in the 1860s.
The people in my government class who never heard of Elizabeth I or Henry VIII.
Being stuck in my room for more than one straight day

 

[Stoic Beverage]

Thinking about my future. As far as I've got it planned, I'll graduate high school, college, get a job, and die. Hopefully get a wife along the way.
The only reasons those goals are there is because it's more or less mandatory. I can't really think of anything to add that I would find meaningful, and having just that to look forward to I find quite depressing.
Sigh.

 

[Taniwha]

Talking and Thinking about the past.
Too much sunlight (it burns my skin).
Repetition.
Isolation.
Procrastination.
Concerns for the future.
Failing.
My mother (ESFJ).
People asking and saying really stupid things.
Birthdays.

 

[pjoa09]

the thought of life in an abandoned building.

I have a cat that stays in the office the entire night.
Very depressing.

The truth that eventually I will succumb to this mundane life and never be able to breath like I wanted to. Years will pass fast and I will die.

Chicks.
I don't know why.
It sucks being obsessive.

 

[kinetickyle]

My financial situation. I'm not about money, but considering how hard I've worked in college, grad school, and my job, I should be able to make ends meet when my wife is out of work. We live very basically (one basic car, one basic motorcycle, a basic apartment, and no cable), and yet I can't. It takes more than hard work to be successful. That depresses me.

 

[final-dimension]

Talking and Thinking about the past.
Too much sunlight (it burns my skin).
Repetition.
Isolation.
Procrastination.
Concerns for the future.
Failing.
My mother (ESFJ).
People asking and saying really stupid things.
Birthdays.

ESFJ father...

 

[SpaceYeti]

Not much depresses me. I'm a naturally cheery dude. Things bother me, things annoy me, things piss me off, but more often then not I'm in a decent to good mood. I'm alive! Everything I like requires that, and I have it.

I have been depressed before, though. When I was living in the back of a run down trailer, with too little money to fix my car such that I could go to work, separated from my son by hundreds of miles without the means to visit or take any care of him, I was depressed. I know what depression's like, but I did something to change the causes of my depression. Even if I die, I know I'm taking care of my son, now. Not how I'd like to, but more than some fathers, and more than I could before. As long as I continue that, I doubt I can be depressed.

 

[Taniwha]

ESFJ father...

Damn, we are alike.

 

[IfloatTHRUlife]

When i was younger it depressed me thinking that, one day i would have to take part in the system we call life, the meaningless repetition of the day to day going to work, coming home, trying to find something to entertain myself until i went to sleep, wake up the next day and start it over.

This happened so much in fact that i never really started my life, and now that i am nearly 21, i dont have a job, i still live with my parents, i dont really have any friends, i fill my time with petty things like playing warcraft. The only thing that i really have going for me is my girlfriend, and even that is tainted because she lives in new york and i live in maryland. Every day i am beat down by the thought that, if i cant even get a job here, how will i make it there, she has already been waiting for me for 2 years, how long will she wait.

In short, my life is what depresses me.

 

[Cognisant]

Expectations.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

ESFJ father...

ESFJ mom...
I often feel very bad for being annoyed by her though. She's just a human just like me, with good intentions and such. Our interests and personalities are so horribly different though...

 

[Cogwulf]

Currently I'm being made to feel depressed by having valentines day shoved in my face everywhere I go.

 

[GYX_Kid]

any past regretful event that i obsess over by default, thus keeping an uneventful day in front of my face, and not getting things done for the future.

all i need to do is realize emotionally as well as logically, that new hope can and will exist

 

[Thaklaar]

Not enough sun. (Leaving the Pacific Northwest was awesome.)
Not enough sleep. (Working rotating shifts is less awesome.)
Frustration.
Pessimism.

 

[SpaceYeti]

Currently I'm being made to feel depressed by having valentines day shoved in my face everywhere I go.

Shoved in your face? Who does the shoving?

 

[Solitaire U.]

.

 

[AlisaD]

Sunny days if I can't go out.
Offices.
Circles.
Hamster wheels.

 

[Cavallier]

Hamster wheels in the non-metaphorical sense are actually not that depressing. Those little buggers just love running on them. They get all listless and sad when I take the wheel away. I suppose it's because it's all they know. Now, that makes me depressed.

 

[AlisaD]

Hamster wheels in the non-metaphorical sense are actually not that depressing.

Hamster wheels exist in a non-metaphorical sense?
Now, that's just depressing.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

Not having anything to think about.

 

[Cogwulf]

Shoved in your face? Who does the shoving?

I'm exaggerating slightly, but I'm referring to advertising

 

[SpaceYeti]

I'm exaggerating slightly, but I'm referring to advertising

Only slightly?

 

[Bird]

Jzono1.

 

[ElvenVeil]

Not having anything to think about.

does not compute

 

[Reluctantly]

Family Time.

 

[Taniwha]

Crashing my motorcycle, just got out of hospital. Ouch...

 

[Moocow]

The hopeless cynicism, helplessness, denial, and self-loathing of everyone around me, and my inability to help them.

 

[jzono1]

Living away from my dogs and my cat. Living away from the small comfort zone at home where I grew up.

I'm not sure which of the two is the major factor, but moving away just makes me exhausted and depressed, no matter how hard I want to succeed. Takes only a few months too, so splitting up an education isn't an option.

 

[Polaris]

Idleness. Mirror image. Absence of music and art.

 

[Vrecknidj]

It takes more than hard work to be successful. That depresses me.

QFT

 

[EFM]

The hopeless cynicism, helplessness, denial, and self-loathing of everyone around me, and my inability to help them.

You can help yourself, if this isn't enough you're trying too hard.

 

[Lobstrich]

It depresses me when people can't just be nice to each other. And when people can't just preserve what is. Why do we have to kill every animal? Why do we have to destroy every forest?
And yes, I was raised by a hippie mother.

 

[TylerRDA]

Anything that reminds me of my childhood (thinking about the future makes me feel happy).
Absence of a challenge.
People who follow the same religion as me for all the perfectly wrong reasons.

and the kicker...

The painful realization I am undeniably average and not exceptional in any way.

 

[soraya]

Waking up late.
When I can't get my life in order/organized.
Never being satisfied with anything.
Realizing that all systems are hopelessly inadequate but that pretty much we have to operate within them to get anything done.
That reality always falls short of whatever my intuition imagines.
And, oddly, when people accidentally drop ice cream on the ground.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

Realizing that all systems are hopelessly inadequate but that pretty much we have to operate within them to get anything done.

Don't you find this sort of phenomenon endlessly fascinating? - that things aren't rationally organised, yet still -work-. Then there's the prospect of improving how the system currently operates. If everything was already done for us then... there would be nothing left to do, and that would be kiiinda dull, non?