Telling people that being rich or having more money will not help them with their depression is a lie.

I'll revise my current opinion when I find that panel of mental health professionals and extensive clinical trials which advocate extreme poverty as a means of treating depression,

Money may not cure depression but it certainly can buy one enough time, opportunity, freedom, and tools to discover what might.

Cut the bull crap.

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BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F

It would help, but probably temporarily, and I don't see money ever resolving depression. Not every problem can be solved with money.. You could have weights on your shoulders and your money can't do shit.

There is an interesting concept in economics called "diminishing marginal utility" whereby it was found that your utility/happiness does not proportionally increase with the increase of your income, as a matter of fact, the extra happiness you are getting from extra income keeps on diminishing and this is because once you have satisfied your basic needs, it is all the same. It is like how the first bite when you are hungry is so tasty, but with every bite, it is less tasty because you are more full.

I'd argue that money can make a huge difference to the wellbeing of those who are in extreme poverty because these people are missing their basic needs. But for someone like me for example, middle class (brought up leaning to the poor side rather than the rich side), but my basic needs are covered, I don't see how extra income can solve my depression.

Miram · 31-35, F

@BittersweetPotato

I think people are rewording my vent way too much.

Never did I argue money as cure.

Never did I suggest it will always work or even help.

As to it helping "temporarily', that's to be judged from a case to case basis.

BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F

@Miram I am not rewording anything, I am just giving my opinion on the subject. I, for one, had problems that sent me into depression and paranoia, that no amount of money could have solved. As for case by case basis, there have been actually a lot of research done on the psychology of lottery winners, and interestingly enough, winners have usually ended up as happy as they were before... some of them even less happy because of the troubles they have gone into when they had a lot of cash on their hands.

Miram · 31-35, F

@BittersweetPotato From case to case, as in it will be different and not the same for everyone.

I have my doubts about happiness being approached as the opposite of depression, or even in relation to a thread like mine.