Do you ever think school and classes have contributed to your depression in ways other than merely stressing you out? For example, things I've learned in history have probably made me feel really depressed about human nature and the human condition... In 11th grade I actually bothered with reading English books as well. Basically we had U.S. History where there was a whole bunch of stuff about racism and discrimination and poverty and such along with reading The Grapes of Wrath. World History was pretty bad too and government is about a bunch of government corruption.

I can't really feel like education would make me a better person because of that. I think most people would probably say "who cares, I'm here to get the damn degree and avoid all those things", or maybe there are those who'd go out and join a student protest standing in crowds holding signs and maybe yelling, but how does that help? A lot of times I feel like classes say "humanity sucks, the world sucks, now stay in class and take notes and prepare for the test". And on top of that students will have the nerve to complain about their petty problems forgetting all of the trouble in the world that they just learned minutes ago. Why try and save the world when you can just gossip and laugh?? And on top of that you're looked down upon and mocked for being the quiet depressed kid.

I suppose that might be reasonable even if it's not ethical -- in any case, moral outrage isn't likely to accomplish anything either... What seems to be left is people circlejerking saying something along the lines of "Yes, we educated elites will provide an organized and proper solution to your problems" full with the plastic smile and "I'm so awesome and better than everyone else" feeling when they don't actually try to sympathize and understand those they claim to help because well, why bother?

If you guys ever feel this way when does it happen? If you guys have actually stopped feeling this way at some point when was it? I think I'm feeling that sort of despair less by now but it's still pretty bad and it may come back in the future.

>>	Anonymous 07/11/14(Fri)00:51 No. 18000 [Edit] File 140506508329.png - (363.89KB , 980x315 , empathy is a useless burden.png ) Yeah I pretty much agree. If you want to not be miserable all the time you pretty much have to disregard everyone else.