Causes of Depression

Depression is caused by leading a lazy, slothful, gluttonous, pointless, unnatural existence. Boredom is probably the leading cause of depression but a doctor can’t prescribe pills for having a white water rafting adventure.

Lack of physical activity


If you sit in a cubicle all day never getting your blood pumping or sweating toxins out it would stand to reason that your insides are just as mucked up as your outsides. It is an obvious fact that anyone who has ever done anything physical knows: after you do some hard physical shit you feel great. You sure as hell don’t feel depressed.


Solution: Get physical. Go to the gym and lift your heart out. Go out to the garage and build something. Do some yard work. Mow the lawn. Go for a run. For God’s sake keep busy somehow, idleness is a soul-killer. No one was ever depressed after a killer lifting session. No one was ever depressed after building a house with their own hands. No farmer was ever depressed about working on his farm all day. He wouldn’t have time to cry about it.

Eating garbage

This one should be the most obvious but somehow this escapes almost everyone – if you eat garbage you feel like garbage. Do you think your grandfather would come home from a hard day doing physical labor to a dinner of fucking macaroni and cheese made with margarine and skim milk, soy burger patties, and candy for dessert? No. He wouldn’t eat that bullshit and he’d slap you in the mouth if you tried to serve it to him. He ate meat and potatoes and washed it down with whole milk or beer because he knew what was good.


Solution: Eat meat. Lots of it. Eat plenty of saturated animal fat. Don’t eat anything made in a laboratory.

No love life

If your love life isn’t up to par it is probably because of one reason: you are acting like a pussy. Girls already have one pussy, they don’t want another one. I know you’ve been misled (we all have) that girls want a nice, sensitive, feminized man in touch with his feelings. Hey, that’s great on paper. Use your eyes to figure out that isn’t how it works in the real world. What works in the real world is respect. No one (especially women, double especially women who say they do) respects a feminized man. That horse-shit is how they test you, if you give in you fail. Would your grandpa act like a fairy to get some chicks? Then you shouldn’t either.


Solution: Take up some manly hobbies and quit the feminine nonsense. If you’re not a girl, don’t act like one.

Working a dull, lazy job

Clearly an unfulfilling work, a place we spend the majority of our time, can be a major cause of feeling like poop.


Solution: You already know what I’m going to say but I’ll say it anyway: QUIT. Find something fulfilling. A LIFE PURPOSE is fulfilling in ways a job can never be.

Relying on entertainment to fulfill you

The average American watches 5 hours of
the boob tube every day. No joke, I would rather be dead then forced to endure 5 hours of TV every day. It’s impossible to not be depressed when constantly bombarded with advertising for stupid bullshit you don’t need. Video games are no substitute.


Solution: Find some better, more meaningful hobbies. Try woodworking, martial arts, weight-lifting, start a business, anything that gets you off the couch and actually doing something.

No family

Probably half of the men I know of my generation came from a broken home. A man (mainly in the west) no longer has an incentive to get married and have a family. In a snap of a finger all can be taken away by the courts. His children and money can be gone in an instant. With odds like that it’s no wonder men don’t want to start families. On the other hand, not having a family to care and provide for is likely the biggest cause of male depression and malaise. A man is no longer really the man in a relationship, the State is the caregiver.

Our grandparents didn’t have any of that. A man had a family to provide for, being a whiny depressed baby just didn’t put food on the table. A man with a strong family is a man with a purpose. A man with a disintegrating family
is a depressed man indeed. Take a look at some foreign families, they never cry about depression.


Solution: For a man wanting to start a family I highly suggest going abroad and finding a woman who has not been indoctrinated into the hypergamous ways of
some women. For a man already married but having problems I would highly suggest reading Athol Kay’s book The Married Man Sex Life Primer which will teach you how to be the leader in your relationship. For a man going through divorce, losing his kids and money you have my deepest sympathies. You’re in a hole and you will just have to pull yourself out of it. Frankly, this is the only acceptable cause of depression. Just don’t let it last forever.

Listening to depressing music, watching depressing movies

Do you listen to depressing music because you’re depressed or are you depressed because you listen to depressing music? Depressing music has a depressing effect. Stop listening to it.


Solution: Listen to music that pumps you up and makes you feel alive. Don’t watch depressing movies. Don’t read depressing websites. Cut out the bullshit, baby. It’s upbeat and positive or it doesn’t exist.

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