re: Please tell me how rich celebrities/athletes/musicians get depressed

They have too much free time and all the money they need to feed their demons.

Work is good for the soul.

would take the fun out of the game of life really. No challenge anymore. Just using money on frivolous and possibly damaging things in a race to spend it all before I die. People hitting me up for money all the time. Even people who loved you before will just not be able to avoid asking you for money. You'd start to feel used. Wondering if anyone cares about you anymore.

I think a lot of people honk celebrities had the goal of being rich when they started, when in reality they just do what they like to do, making tons of money in the process, and the excess money ends up creating problems, not joy.

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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.

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So you assume depressing is only related to the amount of material items a person has? It doesn't work that way my boy.

Depression doesn't really discriminate. Someone could have everything they ever imagined, but if they suffer from depression, it doesn't matter what they have. Its a feeling, its something that can't always be controlled. And it doesn't matter what anyone tells you, nothing helps.

You really don't understand depression.

You clearly don't understand depression at all.

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Someday people will learn that money doesn't buy happiness.

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It can make life a lot less stressful (if managed correctly), but that's it. You might be able to buy whatever you want, but people who buy things to fill a void in their life.. It is, at best, a temporary fix.

Money doesn't stop the family issues that people deal with, it doesn't stop tragic events from happening in one's life, etc. And it sure doesn't play a factor in someone being depressed.

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I think I know why: creative people tend to be more intelligent than non-creative people. I firmly believe that stupid people are on average much happier than smart people are.

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Whenever I was with a certain friend and we would pass by people sitting outside in the middle of the day drinking he would always say "I envy those people. They wake up, spend the day outside drinking and that is enough to make them as happy as they can be. They are too dumb to care about anything. As for as they are concerned, they got it made".

So just because someone sits in the porch and drinks they are dumb?????

So after reading most of this thread, a lot of you guys think that rich people have mental problems. Yep, only happens to the rich. Maybe if people would step away from drugs that they can afford because they're rich, maybe they wouldn't be loonies. I hear a lot of people say they looked for something to fix a void, and until they found God, nothing would feel that void. Instead of committing suicide, get right with God, have peace, be close to family, and love others

It can help Chris... money is important to everyone.... but Health is way more important than money..... not talking about depression here.... just health in general.....