As someone with ADHD who is in a great job and able to walk & bus to work, working about 30 hours a week on a great salary, with a wife and girlfriend, able to have many hobbies, I got depression last year. Started an SSRI, and it actually fixed whatever chemical funkiness is in my brain. Sure, it could’ve been dopamine burnout, or drinking beer casually as a hobby (living next to a dozen breweries), but it was 95% a chemical issue. I have the energy I had in my mid 20’s. And ADHD meds help me actually focus on what I want to focus on. For me, it’s all a chemical imbalance, not because of my living situation or whatever.
Sometimes it is just chemical, and we need to accept that.
I’m so glad I left Mississippi 4 years ago. I’m never going back. I love being in a super liberal and leftist city. I have so much more freedom here. Sure, to own a gun I have to get a license or something, but I’m able to bus to work, go to a bar after work, get a little drunk, and then just bus home and be safe. I’m able to take my dog to a bar. I’m able to smoke weed. I have more financial freedom than I had 4 years ago.
The only thing I miss is the food.
The south is fucked.