Purpose is the most underrated antidepressant

Nov 3, 2025 · 8:29 PM UTC

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Having something bigger than yourself to work towards literally changes your brain's reward system... Depression often comes from that trapped feeling when life feels pointless Purpose gives you a reason to get up even on days when you don't want to
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Purpose to live, serve, offer a value to your loved ones and community.
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and parenthood is the ultimate purpose
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Also,
Kpaxs
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Incredible paradox 🤯 It turns out comfort might be the enemy of purpose.
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Yes, that’s right
Karla Vittetoe
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Mmm, can’t tell with certainty. But in the meantime, we’re here— gifted with life to create our own purpose
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10 minutes direct sunlight exposure too
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Once you have purpose, everything else follows.
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Any tips to help people discover purpose?
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Purpose is your armor. It helps you stay in the field on your worst days. It helps you shine on your best days.
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purpose cures chaos
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Good point, when you focus on something, your brain doesn't have the time for trivial things
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amen. purpose cures it all or at the very least inspire us to cure ourselves
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finding purpose in the age of ai is a bigger battle than anything else
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Find your ikigai
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Purpose isn’t a replacement for therapy or healing but the spark that makes both work better. When life feels meaningless, purpose gives you something to aim at. When you already have meaning, it gives you strength to endure.
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Also, a great source of anxiety. 91% of people experience purpose anxiety as they try to make sense of what to do with their lives.
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Hamster: "Running is the most underrated antidepressant". Lion: "Hunting is the most underrated antidepressant". Beaver: "Building dams is the most underrated antidepressant". We just need to fulfil our biological instinct "To apply changes to the world". That's our instinct.
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Great tweet
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Because having purpose will stop you from questioning the meaning of life.
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purpose works until it starts asking for updates. then it just becomes another deadline with better branding.
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The thing is, somebody can be searching the whole life for it ....
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you don’t need serotonin, you need an actual reason to get up. purpose beats a prescription, might not fix everything, but it gives you a compass.
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Unmasking/truly not caring what others think, freedom of mind.
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it’s always been about the “why”, really—the whole time.
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Our real deep whys make all the difference
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I might even say it's the only antidepressant.
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So true. When life has meaning, even the hard days start to make sense purpose gives the mind something to hold on to.
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The greatest tragedy in life is not death. Is life without purpose.
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Direction beats medication when you actually have somewhere worth going every morning
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Pursuing meaningful goals lights up the brain's reward circuitry more sustainably than any pill.
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Cheaper than therapy, harder to fake. 💡
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Perhaps purpose isn’t always the cure, it can also become pressure. Sometimes peace grows not from chasing meaning, but from allowing life to unfold naturally. Maybe joy begins when we stop forcing purpose and start appreciating the simple moments that just are.
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Man’s search for meaning validated this
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People don’t burn out from working hard. They burn out from working dispersed. Purpose focuses energy the way light becomes fire. 🔵
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