
Daniel Pekic
352 posts






They're coming for your super. It was always going to happen. Make Superannuation voluntary.






People throw the word “depression” around too loosely, and it confuses everyone. The clinical meaning is specific: it’s when the brain stops working the way it’s supposed to. This is often tied to real physical causes: a hit to the head, low hormones like testosterone, or drugs that damage brain receptors (cocaine, alcohol, meth). It’s usually treatable, but not always. What most people call “depression” is really just sadness or feeling lost, which is different. If someone dies or you go through a breakup, you grieve, and then you slowly get back to normal, you’re still healthy underneath. If you feel lost, you often just need a new direction: start something, meet new people, get in the gym etc. I lost a friend due to “true” depression and you’ll only have compassion for those who have it unless you’ve had it too. It is a very difficult state to describe with words. You don’t feel awake, but you don’t feel like you’re dreaming either…you’re stuck in some middle state. You lose pleasure in everything. Food you love doesn’t taste the same, almost like you can’t taste at all. Music isn’t enjoyable or even neutral, it’s actually a little annoying to hear. Light feels too bright. You can’t sleep and you don’t know why. Nothing interests you. You’re just existing outside of the person you used to be. You don’t know exactly what’s wrong, you only know something is. And there’s no reason for it. Your life can look good on the surface, good relationships, money, family, a job, a purpose, and then one day it’s all taken from you, because physically something in the brain has gone wrong. TLDR; some do drugs kids






