Thursday 26 May 2022Depression is a mental health problem that is often misunderstood as being lazy. This is because depression and laziness have a lot in common.
A common symptom of depression and mental illness always begins with a feeling of laziness, which affects motivation, concentration, energy levels, and the quality of work produced.
Here are the things that distinguish laziness and signs of depression, as well as the causes.
Key Differences between Depression and Lazy
The main difference between depression and laziness lies in how they affect a person's motivation, concentration, and quality of work. In general, lazy people are simply not motivated by things beyond their control because they lack self-awareness or insight into what motivates them. Laziness is more of a situational experience. Some days you may feel lazy because you are tired from a busy week.
As for depression, it affects a person's mental health and mood. Depression can last for weeks or months regardless of how much rest you get.
Social Media Addiction
Along with the development of technology, social media addiction is also the biggest contributor to depression and laziness in the world. Your social media scrolling indirectly contributes greatly to your mental health, both positively and negatively. A study shows that people who spend a lot of time on social media, at least twice a day checking social media, are more likely to feel socially isolated.
This makes them disconnect from real life and end up spending time in cyberspace to seek pleasure for themselves.
By continuing to be involved in other people's lives through their daily use of social media, they also begin to compare themselves to what other people present themselves online. This can certainly affect a person's psychological and social development, and cause them to become depressed because they cannot present themselves in the real world.
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You're very correct about the effect of social media on human mental health. It needs to be constantly checked