--- title: "Why are so many people depressed?" description: "Why are so many people depressed?" author: "Joseph Rossignol" published: 2017-11-21 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31069/why-are-so-many-people-depressed category: "spirituality" tags: ["depressed"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Why are so many people depressed? Why are so many [people](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2295/more-people-need-to-monitor-this-crucial-metric-for-heart-health) depressed? ## Answers ### Answer by akriti kashyap ## Depression! ![Why are so many people depressed?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/5a5c55a8-c2f7-46c6-aef9-0df46b784ae7/images/4f841469-cd7b-4412-9cb9-418ab9eeb834.png) Depression is a fancy term for “**overthinking**”… I feel if a person is depressed… He starts the iteration in his mind of been depressed… Thus, it acts like a spider web where you get trapped and the more you try to come out of it, the more you will be stuck into it… Well, some do have a serious problem with depression… **So how does it bloom…?** That’s because we have so much of brain resting in our little structure of head that makes our life more complicated than making it a simple and/or less complex one… Well, nowadays the scenario is that… even the younger ones have been the victim of this malady… It is a melancholy that the surrounding or the environment that we are living in is a puddle of pressure which is leading us to an avenue for depression… Well… Just shut your body system for a moment and just relax… Give a moment to yourself and introspect **what has led you here..?** In this situation and in this scenario… ## Were you like this…? Is this a real self of you…? No, right then you need to be out by just giving a suggestion (**thoughts**) in your heart that… May this is been overcome and I have been healed from within… Slowly you would realize that you are been becoming better from that malady… Well, this just a simple experiment to perform… So do it and then believe… ## Another article related to this been also a support for you to have a better perspective!!! How to deal with depression? *Well, hope this would help you been cheerful towards life!* **Cheers!\**\ **\** ## \ --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31069/why-are-so-many-people-depressed Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.