Meaning and purpose . Those things seem to be what us depressed people are missing enmasse . These things seem to builtin for most people so that they don ' t have to think about it . I ' ve been struggling through life for the past two decades completely lacking meaning , purpose or ambition . Trying to create these things from nothing from the ground up is hard . I started with some simple goals Exercise regularly many people have told me this should help with depressionanxiety . Counting my calories , with the goal of losing weight . Showing my family that I love them , focusing more on them . Giving up porn to the best of my ability , I just busted from an 17 day streak . <| sep |> You ' ve put words in my mouth I didn ' t make a value judgement on any country other than the one that myself or the person in question is in . As I said , it ' s nationalism . You clearly don ' t have any nationalistic tendencies , and that ' s fine . Others do , however , and they ' re correspondingly empathetic to that and want to urge their countrymen on .