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Question

I read that many people in the US are depressed because they think something's wrong with them, when there really is not. Media makes people look really happy, and when one feels like **** for a few days they think they're not normal and something must be wrong if they're not constantly happy. AGREE?

Answer 1

This problem goes all the way back to the early days of television. The family-oriented sitcoms of the 50s (The Donna Reed Show, Father Knows Best, Ozzie and Harriet, December Bride, etc.,) depicted absurdly unrealistic "role models". The father was always all-knowing and wise. The mother was always a domestic goddes that would have done "The Stepford Wives" proud. The kids were always models of perfect behavior, causing no more than the minimal amount of complications that the writers needed to fill-out their vapid plot lines. (And those problems, whatever they may have been, were always completely and permanently solved within the space of one episode's running time.) Oh, yes, and not ONE of these perfect families EVER had money troubles.
This caused a lot of distress back then for normal, everyday people who felt that these tranquil levels of existance were beyond their capabilities.

Now the pendulum has swung back in the opposite direction where sitcoms are peopled by blatantly dysfunctional families, obnoxious, rude egotistical loudmouths, and all manner of negative personalities that would make Attila the Hun look like a positive role model! (All of which makes me wonder where on earth you are finding these people that "look really happy" whom your question is referring to.)

The problem, I think, is with the whole concept of "role models". That is, the idea that we somehow think we HAVE TO pattern our lives after someone else, and can't just be ourselves. We are so afraid that people won't like us, respect us, or in any way admire anything about us unless we copy someone else that they already like, respect or admire.
I can only speak from experience, but I was scorned, ignored and rejected throughout my early years, and people ONLY JUST began to like, respect and admire me when I finally gave up and let my REAL personality out of its self-constructed cage of anxiety and insecurity.

Answer 2

Honestly, I think it has more to do with trying to be superhuman and have it all. Everyone wants to have the best job, the right house in the right neighborhood, the cool car and perfect children,etc. I think Americans are stressed out from their lives and all the things they are trying to accomplish. Unfortunately when we live like this, something has to suffer, either the family, the relationship or our careers. We are all under great stress to do more, acheive more and be better people. I think this is why so many Americans are on antidepressants and are depressed and anxious.

Answer 3

its a funny thing in the pharmaceutical world. They are trying to sell you medicine for illnesses and diseases you may not have. The media however, plays a very important role in which it shows happy skinny people which can make people feel depressed about their own looks. Surveys have actually indicated however that over 50 percent of the US population is depressed

Answer 4

I agree. Everyone has something that they do not like about them self but it also has to do with the chemical balances within your brain they way you were raised heredity and how you percieve life and happiness.