Sorrow is endemic: depression is not failure

Depression exposes something inverted about social logic. It is treated as a personal weakness, yet the condition of not fitting in is the very pressure that gives the idea of “fitting in” its force. The loops of belonging expand endlessly, always moving the target, ensuring that nobody ever quite succeeds. In practice, exclusion is the mechanism by which inclusion defines itself, and sadness becomes the background state against which fleeting moments of acceptance are measured.

The cruelty lies in how systems of culture and economy offload blame: the individual is held responsible for what is in fact systemic. Falling through the safety net is framed as failure of character, while in reality almost everyone is already suspended in the same contradictions, simply hiding it better. Depression is horrifying not only for the suffering it brings but for how it reveals the structural dishonesty of the collective: the endless complication is the game, and misery is its standard currency.