Progress paradox

I was looking more seriously at a chart pasted in our breakroom called "is it depression ?". It has a series of tests such as "cant sleep" "feeling sad" "feel like hittin somebody" "gettin angry at your manager" to see whether you have depression and recommends to see a doctor.

I am like what? Arent we the among the best paid employees in the US market ? Arent we able to feed our families ? Why should then we get depressed ? It reminded me of a book called "progress paradox".

Its all related to being psychologically happy ?

That book has some interesting stats like

* the disabled and chronically ill people are more happy than healthy people because of the appreciation they have developed for life
* the old people are generally more happy than young people because of the appreciation they have for forgiveness and non-material things
* lack of money makes you unhappy for sure, but having money does not make you happy
* depression is a 50 billion market and there are less people who get treated for depression as you pass down the class chain

For people who are suffering with depression, I have one pill - have gratitude. Count your blessings than inventorying your complaints. Trust me, even if you get all those complaints sorted out and solved, you would still get unhappy. Have a "just let it go" attitude. Beleive me, there is research area called forgiveness, which says people who forgive more tend to have a more cardiovascular diseases and lower immune system functions.