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...See more For over a year now, I have become more and more depressed by the day. As weeks go by, I hit lower and lower lows, and haven't really done anything to try and help myself. I feel like it could help to talk to a friend or therapist, but my friends don't really understand me, and I can never find the time or willingness to schedule an appointment with my college counselor. When I was younger, it was easy to solve my problems by pinpointing the issue, and trying to work out a solution. Lately, I feel like there is no "real reason" for my depression--at least, in the context of society. In other words, it isn't relationship issues or personal concerns that make me depressed, but the state of society as a whole and my lack of identity. I am beginning to hate and look down at people around me because for the most part, they focus on the same things--making money, getting a job, etc. I also envy them, because when they achieve these things they are happy. I go to a good school, will probably get a high paying job out of college, but it doesn't matter to me. It won't help me solve the issues of society (everyone stops to think about how our society is fucked up, but no one does anythign to try and change it). Now I'm stuck. Do I go back to living ignorantly in the society I have come to think is "ridiculous", or do I continue to look down on others that allow themselves to become completely absorbed in materialistic things and keep being depressed of how sucky the world is? I honestly just want to be a good human being, and to be happy, but the more open minded I become about the world the more depressed I get. What do I do?

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