Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

The future is predetermined.

That's where the hopelessness comes from.

So a good example of this is I work with a lot of people who struggle a lot with dating and loneliness.

There's a camp of people who call themselves forever alone.

So if you think about forever alone, what does that mean?

It means that no matter what you do,

The future is fixed.

And when the future becomes fixed like that, it induces this sense of existential depression.

There's no point in life.

What's the point in life if no matter what I do, everything is going to fall apart anyway?

There's no point in investing in a career because my job is going to be replaced by AI.

So no matter what I do, I become powerless because my efforts, whether I do this on a Monday or this, whether I procrastinate on a Monday or I don't procrastinate, makes no difference.

My job is going to get replaced by AI.

Whether I go to the gym, whether I get my hair done, whether I work with a stylist, whether I go to this pickup artist camp, doesn't matter because I'm going to be alone no matter what happens.

So there is a fixed or frozen future.

And when there's a fixed or frozen future, what is the point of acting?

right what's the point this is why people with existential depression struggle day in and day out to find a meaning to find a purpose to find a point it's like i go on existing in this world i become an object among objects a thing among things life has no zest it has no possibility it has no excitement as the depressive initiates his descent to avernus

He begins by feeling bad, that is, dysrhythmic, out of phase, and anxious.

By degrees, the depressive reduces his participation in the world of events of social, personal, and even family contacts.

They start to withdraw.