Money and Depression.

What does wealth and security give us? If you look at the people who get depressed, or moan about all their problems, they are not always the worst off people, but often the better off. At school, a lot of the people who became depressives were people from "stable" (or at least richer) homes, and I feel this might be partly due to wanting some sort of adventure outside of this stability. It's easy to take good things for granted if you have never experienced the bad.

Problems relating to depression are growing in this country, even though we are getting richer and richer. Perhaps this is because in the past we had to spend all our time working to afford food and shelter, while nowadays we have far more time to think. Why this thinking should lead to feeling bad is something I am less sure on...

Maybe it is related to the media, and all the bad news that is reported. Maybe it is just wanting attention, or social integration, or even love, which can sometimes be gained through letting people know you are suffering so they come and care for you. Maybe as jobs have become more detached from first hand production people don't feel worth in what they are doing. Maybe it's just "thinking about the wrong things"(something I am hoping to write more about later) etc etc

I don't know the answer, they are just some Ideas. But if money and security doesn't buy you happiness, what does?