depression rant and ?

so I've been pretty fed up with the world lately and just disgusted with a lot of things. I just think that people’s priorities are so out of whack (like standing 16 hours in line for a phone). And I hate the fact that I feel like I have to fight against so many things right now. I don't want my kids eating processed food and don't allow it at home, but I send him to preschool and he gets chips and kool-aid. So I always feel like I'm battling against something. Whether it's consumerism at its best or how I feed my kids or the fact that I look around and see so many bad things happening in the world. I just feel like I want to move to the middle of nowhere and grow my own food and stay away from most people. How can I explain all the hate and violence and anger in the world to my kids?

Then I was thinking, "hey I sound pretty damn depressed" but on second thought I don't think I am I think I'm just seeing the world as it as without distorting it with rosy colored glasses. Then I was thinking, maybe that's the case with all depressed people. Maybe they're just looking at the world for what it is without trying to make it seem better than it is. I know there's a lot of good out there and there's more love than hate and we just hear about the bad stuff more because of the media. And I hope I can teach my kids the right things but that doesn't mean they're going to grow up in a world with any less hate. This may seem like a crazy rant but what do you think? How do you think depressed people are just seeing the world as it is? Do you think other people use alcohol/drugs/medications to cope with the reality of the state of our world?

I don't if it is the world as much as their own life. The world is never going to be perfect and was never meant to be because it is a place to evolve spiritually and sometimes it take joy and sorrow for that. How we view the world effects whether or not we will be happy. We can live here and still be happy.

Quoting Lucid Dreamer:" I don't it is the world as much as their own life. The world is never going to be perfect and was never ... [snip!] ... joy and sorrow for that. How we view the world effects whether or not we will be happy. We can live here and still be happy."

I'm not saying the world has to be "perfect" but it just seems like we are getting further and further away from what we are meant to be doing as humans. And we create all this "stuff" to make our lives easier without even thinking "hey maybe I just don't need all this and don't need to do everything I'm doing" we act like multi-tasking is so great but it's not, it means we're not focusing on what we should be at that time.
How do you then explain people who have good lives but are still unhappy. I have a wonderful life. 2 great kids, great marriage, we live comfortably and have all we need, we eat well, I exericse and we're all healthy. I also think we wouldn't have people trying to change the injustices they see in the world if we all just focused on our own lives and didn't look beyond ourselves to humanity as a whole.

I think we all have those moments. I think depression is when it gets extremely hard to see that good that you do have in your life. One of your rants did stick out to me and it was about the food at preschool. Have you offered to send an alternative snack?

I can't watch the news very much anymore because I seriously can't handle all of the violence in the world. I get severe anxiety over it.

Quoting summerbabyX2:" I'm not saying the world has to be "perfect" but it just seems like we are getting further and further ... [snip!] ... they see in the world if we all just focused on our own lives and didn't look beyond ourselves to humanity as a whole."

I agree there is a lot wrong doing going in the world but just the same there a lot of what I refer to as bringers of the light in this world as well do to the variety of spiritual experiences. Things will get better but it is a matter of getting people to understand that spreading hate is not the answer because it all just comes back to them.

Quoting Lucid Dreamer:" I agree there is a lot wrong doing going in the world but just the same there a lot of what I refer to ... [snip!] ... it is a matter of getting people to understand that spreading hate is not the answer because it all just comes back to them."

but how do we get them to understand that and who's responsibility is it? Before being a SAHM I was a counselor and only ever wanted to help people. But more often than not the people just wanted someone else to take responsibilty for them or find a easy way out. I felt like I cared more than they did about their lives. Now with kids I always thought, if I can get them to be good, caring people they can spread it out into the world. But now that I'm sending them out into the world and see what's out there I feel like I'm almost sacrificing them, and I really want to protect them from it all even more.

and about the snacks, I asked if I could send in my own and they said no because they want all kids to have the same thing so there's no fighting. Again, that's just not right. What are we teaching kids there? Everyone has to have exactly the same at all times...

Quoting summerbabyX2:" but how do we get them to understand that and who's responsibility is it? Before being a SAHM I was ... [snip!] ... fighting. Again, that's just not right. What are we teaching kids there? Everyone has to have exactly the same at all times..."

You won't always be able to protect them but prepare for what they might face. There will always be the yin and the yang. As for getting those who practice hate to understand it is not the answer the only thing that will help them is by reaping what they sow and that will happen. I see things with more clarity than I used to and I stongly believe everyone is responsible for their owns actions and if they hurt another they ultimately hurt themselves. How to get everyone to understand that cannot so much happen thru word of mouth as much as having a spiritually transforming experience. It is happening to many people today and there are some of them who were living dishonest or bad lives but after the experience became servants of humanity. Despite what we see here we are destined to grow. It won't happen over night but it will happen

Depression isn't the same thing as being a downer or pessimistic or whatever, its a medical condition. From what you are describing, it doesn't sound like depression, just malcontent and anxiety IMO.

Why would you let what other people do upset you to that point?

It sounds like you have : Weltschmerz (from the German, meaning world-pain or world-weariness