Can you get yours to talk to mine? For me it reinforces feelings for almost everyone else which then reinforces the depression. I often feel like I deserve this, not them.

It feels wrong

Yes but permanent and no other effects

And also stop talking to people who look at social media?

It’s permanent.

How it affects your depression depends on whether or how much is it caused by caring about the suffering of people all across the world. What inspired me to post this is a thing I’ve seen multiple times in comments on the internet - people saying that treating their depression is kind of pointless as it’s mostly caused by their awarness of that.

It doesn’t take away your emotions or empathy, or your ability to feels strong emotions during a movie. There are many people - I would maybe say the majority - who love their families, pets, neigbors, whatever, but fates of people from somewhere else in the world suffering in wars or genocides leave them cold. They just don’t care. Maybe a little, but definitely not as much to feel bad about it on a daily basis.