Are there people who say they’re depressed because life is meaningless? I’m not an expert on the subject, but I’ve never heard of any.
There’ve been several mentions of obesity as a primary cause of depression. I haven’t heard of fat people tending to be more depressed than non-fat, but maybe I’ve missed something. Do you mean obesity in the medical sense? That’s actually just fair-to-middling fat. (See The BMI Project for what those numbers mean.) Or do you mean being incapacitated by one’s weight?
Good Mood by Julian Simon might be of interest. He beat back quite a serious depression when he realized that it had roots in the way he thought.
My impression is that most depression carries thoughts of something being wrong with oneself and/or the universe and/or one’s environment, but it’s generally not as philosophical as a belief that the universe is meaningless.
Are there people who say they’re depressed because life is meaningless? I’m not an expert on the subject, but I’ve never heard of any.
There’ve been several mentions of obesity as a primary cause of depression. I haven’t heard of fat people tending to be more depressed than non-fat, but maybe I’ve missed something. Do you mean obesity in the medical sense? That’s actually just fair-to-middling fat. (See The BMI Project for what those numbers mean.) Or do you mean being incapacitated by one’s weight?
Good Mood by Julian Simon might be of interest. He beat back quite a serious depression when he realized that it had roots in the way he thought.
My impression is that most depression carries thoughts of something being wrong with oneself and/or the universe and/or one’s environment, but it’s generally not as philosophical as a belief that the universe is meaningless.