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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • it’s almost impressive how efficient the system is at keeping us down and divided.

    It’s such a sad realization. So much of our society, no matter where you live, is designed to do this. And we’re constantly being manipulated. I have a degree in graphic design and I worked in advertising for a couple years out of college. It was the job I hated most, especially when it really hit me how much of it was just manipulating people in different ways. The most minor creative decision on any given project was made to catch the viewer in some way and it’s depressing how prevalent this is in the world.


  • Oh man, I just had this conversation with my mom last weekend. The same “if you just stop X, then maybe you won’t be so depressed”. This time is was thinking about government and societal issues. I don’t know how to get to understand that so much of what I “think” or “worry” about it just who I am and I can’t stop, in the same way she can’t just stop thinking about her children. It’s just me and yeah, it is probably affecting my depression in some ways, but there’s just some things I have to hurt.



  • As a person with Dysthymia, shit like this pisses me off to no end. I’ve dealt with depression most of my life and I’ve lived many different lifestyles, super healthy and fit, eating very healthy and the complete opposite of the spectrum, binge eating, super overweight, getting destroyed by diabetes, and the one constant has always been the depression. Articles like this, as you say, are just a distraction and putting the blame on the victim. They obviously have an agenda to attack process foods and artificial sweeteners and depression is not the reason they are attacking them.