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re: Please tell me how rich celebrities/athletes/musicians get depressed
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:00 am to CatsGoneWild
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:00 am to CatsGoneWild
How do they get diabetes or heart disease? Lots of factors, but it's not as if being rich makes one immune to mental illness.
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Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:01 am to CatsGoneWild
It's clinical depression. It just happens. If the person had a reason it's called the blues.
If a parent dies you are supposed to be sad and depressed. Divorce? Sad. Kids move out? Sad. If your life is sailing and your brain feels the same and releases the same chemicals, you have clinical depression. You are supposed to be sad when sad shite happens.
Add damage and abuse or trauma or drugs? Throw a few million dollars at a sad junkie. You think that ends well? You think he goes to therapy?
If a parent dies you are supposed to be sad and depressed. Divorce? Sad. Kids move out? Sad. If your life is sailing and your brain feels the same and releases the same chemicals, you have clinical depression. You are supposed to be sad when sad shite happens.
Add damage and abuse or trauma or drugs? Throw a few million dollars at a sad junkie. You think that ends well? You think he goes to therapy?
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:04 am to Revelator
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So you are under the impression that material things can bring you lasting happiness, joy and peace?
We are conditioned from birth in this bankrupt society to believe that lie. Our entire farce of a society is constructed upon it. Ironically, it is the underlying reason our society is so sick and insane.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:11 am to Revelator
You can just rent it.
You don't have to buy it.
You don't have to buy it.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:14 am to CatsGoneWild
You always have to wonder if those around you are there because they care about you, or are they there because of what you can do for them financially.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:18 am to Tyga Woods
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You always have to wonder if those around you are there because they care about you, or are they there because of what you can do for them financially.
This is probably the worst. If you had any trust issues or esteem issues before you got famous, is got to be terrible afterwards.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:20 am to CatsGoneWild
I was watching a rockumentary about the Knack on Amazon Prime the other night, and the lead singer said at one point, they had the number one single and album in the entire world and he still felt as inadequate as he did previously. He ultimately turned to drugs like many rock stars do to try an alleviate his numbness.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:20 am to CatsGoneWild
The more intelligent and creative have always been linked to mental issues. A lot of creativity is born from despair.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:27 am to CatsGoneWild
Money doesn't equal happiness. In fact, often times, it can bring on a lot of stress.
Sure, for a more common man like most people here, money could help a lot. We could buy some extra things we wanted, maybe take an extra vacation or 2, etc etc. However, just because it can make someone's life easier, does not mean it can make it happier.
If you're talking about someone like Chris Cornell, who battled a lot of demons, things money can't cure. He said he had been addicted to drugs since he was 13, hard drugs too, imagine that.
As someone who was addicted to heroin, but now has years of sobriety, I can tell you money wouldn't have made me happier. I usually always had money to get dope, but I was still depressed as shite. You get tired man. You get tired of disappointing yourself and others. You get tired of needing a drug just to wake up and move around. You just get tired of so much shite.
Anyways, yes, money can make things easier in life, but as the old saying goes, it can't buy happiness. Especially, when someone is battling demons/drugs like some like CC.
Sure, for a more common man like most people here, money could help a lot. We could buy some extra things we wanted, maybe take an extra vacation or 2, etc etc. However, just because it can make someone's life easier, does not mean it can make it happier.
If you're talking about someone like Chris Cornell, who battled a lot of demons, things money can't cure. He said he had been addicted to drugs since he was 13, hard drugs too, imagine that.
As someone who was addicted to heroin, but now has years of sobriety, I can tell you money wouldn't have made me happier. I usually always had money to get dope, but I was still depressed as shite. You get tired man. You get tired of disappointing yourself and others. You get tired of needing a drug just to wake up and move around. You just get tired of so much shite.
Anyways, yes, money can make things easier in life, but as the old saying goes, it can't buy happiness. Especially, when someone is battling demons/drugs like some like CC.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:31 am to CatsGoneWild
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He told me it was for men of desperate Fortunes on one Hand, or of aspiring, superior Fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon Adventures, to rise by Enterprize, and make themselves famous in Undertakings of a Nature out of the common Road; that these things were either too far above me, or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper Station of Low Life, which he had found by long Experience was the best State in the World, the most suited to human Happiness, not exposed to the Miseries and Hardships, the Labour and Sufferings of the mechanick Part of Mankind. (6)
Robinson Crusoe
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:32 am to saint tiger225
Money is just a story. Often those who succeed and Chase money do so to cover up some insecurity. Then they achieve wealth and realize nothing has changed other than they have money
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:32 am to CatsGoneWild
One of be biggest lies this society pushes is that you'll find happiness by having money. And that the more money you have the happier you'll be.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:33 am to saint tiger225
Money Can't buy everything.
But it can buy me a boat
But it can buy me a boat
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:34 am to Chiefagain
In the cases of musicians and other artists, I think there is a link between the creativity one exhibits and depression. I don't have any data to support this but it seems like ultra-creative people tend have higher rates of depression.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:35 am to SlowEasyConfident
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Money doesn't buy happiness.
I hate this saying so much.
I look at all of the things that make up happiness like a big pie chart. I think that generally money can buy 70+% of the things on the chart in some fashion, and it will probably help you with the rest. Think about your life: how much time do you spend working? Imagine if you were so wealthy you never had to work again. That's a fricking crazy amount of happiness you would gain. You'd basically gain like 1/4 more time on your life.
If you seriously believe money can't buy happiness Idk what to tell you, you're doing happiness wrong.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:36 am to CatsGoneWild
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I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after the wind
That's from Ecclesiastes in the Bible. I'm not very religious but that's a pretty good part of the Bible. It's a guy who had literally everything he could have wanted and still felt empty and hopeless and depressed. Just a note that this isn't some new phenomenon but it's been around a while. Money, success, status doesn't make you fulfilled. That comes from within.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:43 am to Tyga Woods
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You always have to wonder if those around you are there because they care about you, or are they there because of what you can do for them financially.
I think every human is a holistic blend of light and dark. It is some of both. The light is stronger in some and the dark in others. But all humans have both and, if not sociopaths or psychopaths, have free will to cultivate and choose whether they feed the dark, materialistic, greedy energy or the light, spiritual energy.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:47 am to CatsGoneWild
Rich people get depressed the same as people who change cities or change friends get depressed. They are the problem and not where they are or how much money they have or who their friends are.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:49 am to CatsGoneWild
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If you're a millionaire, you can just go out and buy stuff or take a vacation whenever you want. Or go date someone better looking than you. Or you can go for a ride in your luxury car. I just don't get how rich people get depressed. Try living in a normal persons shoes where you barely get by.
You clearly don't understand how depression works.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:53 am to CatsGoneWild
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