Contribute is the key word there. If one is already susceptible to depression due to their brain chemistry, outside stress like a lack of wealth can certainly help trigger it. But we're talking prolonged stress, not just a singular event. Being fired won't cause depression, but being unemployed for months or years - or being at an extremely stressful job - can do it. A break up won't cause it, but being single - or being in a terrible relationship - might. Getting the flu won't, but fighting cancer could. None of these things will cause an otherwise perfectly mentally healthy person to become depressed, but if they're already at risk of it, these things can set them over the edge.
OF course, if one both lacks wealth and is depressed, there's also a good chance the two aren't connected or even that the depression contributed to the lack of wealth and not the other way around. The effects of depression can definitely put one on the road to lacking wealth, even if they don't realize they're depressed. Depression often goes unnoticed and undiagnosed for months or years, sometimes decades or entire lives. Somebody who has plenty of wealth might be depressed and not realize it, slowly lose their wealth because of the long term effects of depression(struggling at work, losing important relationships, etc), and then realize they're depressed once the wealth is gone...it would be easy to think the lack of wealth caused them to be depressed, when in reality it was there all along. I don't know your personal experience, so I have no idea if that's what happened to you, but that can and does happen.
Of course a perfectly mentally healthy person could become depressed if he loved someone enough for long enough and they broke up with him. It'd go away eventually.
Actually getting a severe flu can cause depression. There is a direct relationship between inflammation and depression and flu being a respiratory illness causes inflammation in the respiratory pathways. I almost always become depressed when I get a severe flu and it clears up when the flu subsides. Depression is directly linked to inflammation in the body. Search "inflammation and depression" for more info.
My experience with poverty is that it causes a profound sense of helplessness which in turn causes depression. For example where I live doctors and medical care costs money. If you don't have money here and you get seriously sick you are pretty much screwed. Dark thoughts then begin to come to mind even if the illness is non-fatal.
IIN to get depressed even if your Wealthy?
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Lack of wealth can definitely contribute to becoming depressed. Talking from experience here.
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Contribute is the key word there. If one is already susceptible to depression due to their brain chemistry, outside stress like a lack of wealth can certainly help trigger it. But we're talking prolonged stress, not just a singular event. Being fired won't cause depression, but being unemployed for months or years - or being at an extremely stressful job - can do it. A break up won't cause it, but being single - or being in a terrible relationship - might. Getting the flu won't, but fighting cancer could. None of these things will cause an otherwise perfectly mentally healthy person to become depressed, but if they're already at risk of it, these things can set them over the edge.
OF course, if one both lacks wealth and is depressed, there's also a good chance the two aren't connected or even that the depression contributed to the lack of wealth and not the other way around. The effects of depression can definitely put one on the road to lacking wealth, even if they don't realize they're depressed. Depression often goes unnoticed and undiagnosed for months or years, sometimes decades or entire lives. Somebody who has plenty of wealth might be depressed and not realize it, slowly lose their wealth because of the long term effects of depression(struggling at work, losing important relationships, etc), and then realize they're depressed once the wealth is gone...it would be easy to think the lack of wealth caused them to be depressed, when in reality it was there all along. I don't know your personal experience, so I have no idea if that's what happened to you, but that can and does happen.
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Of course a perfectly mentally healthy person could become depressed if he loved someone enough for long enough and they broke up with him. It'd go away eventually.
Actually getting a severe flu can cause depression. There is a direct relationship between inflammation and depression and flu being a respiratory illness causes inflammation in the respiratory pathways. I almost always become depressed when I get a severe flu and it clears up when the flu subsides. Depression is directly linked to inflammation in the body. Search "inflammation and depression" for more info.
My experience with poverty is that it causes a profound sense of helplessness which in turn causes depression. For example where I live doctors and medical care costs money. If you don't have money here and you get seriously sick you are pretty much screwed. Dark thoughts then begin to come to mind even if the illness is non-fatal.