The Fast-Paced Routine
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Depression has a very blunt definition. It is a state of sadness. It may have a varying degree of sadness depending on a person's experience but the truth remains that a person needs to have a sad experience to be depressed, likewise, a person can also have a sad experience and not be in a depressed state. Now considering these, society has to have a standard on how it views sadness for it to understand how to deal with depression. Currently, sadness is viewed from a capitalist perspective with over-the-counter temporary reliefs available for suppressing the mood. It can either be a drug, food, a statement shirt, an album, or even an application. Like rubbing pain killer on a sore muscle, these temporary reliefs condition a person's mind to forget the feeling of pain but it actually only addresses the problem on the surface level. With these, the people are also conditioned to think that just like muscle pain or headache, sadness can go away if you take any of these reliefs, and because of that sadness-and eventually, depression would appear as if it is just seasonal flu: Contagious but short-lived.
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