do you think depression and anxiety are side effects of hormone imbalances?

[Lemonada8]

Being an alpha has nothing to do with hormones.
They may help, but its a mindset in the end, everything from how you handle confrontation to what drives you. Alpha males fear, are depressed, worry, can be suicidal, and everything a beta is with the exception of laziness, timidness, and mediocrity in general.
A beta looks for the most painless clean way to commit suicide and fails in attempted overdose of flinstones vitamins.
An alpha commits suicide and succeeds with an overdose of hydrashock hollow points.
Alpha or beta we are all only human and we all feel the same things, we only deal with them differently.

It was more of an observation to the original post... how females and beta males only get depression etc.. lol

[Quester]

It was more of an observation to the original post... how females and beta males only get depression etc.. lol

That's not completely correct. Everyone can get depression, even "alpha" males. The other part: They are more likely to externalize their problems which leads to causing problems for others which leads to bigger problems for them. Externalizing=anger. Internalizing=sadness. When we externalize, we look for problems were they may not exist. When we internalize, we seek to solve the problem in ourselves. People who externalize eventually internalize in order to fix what's broken. Or else they just keep making their own lives harder. Think about it like this: the last stop for an externalizer is prison. The last stop for an internalizer is a psych office.

[hammerheart]

Good grief with the greek etymology! Very nice!

I regret I've only had Latin back in high school.

You mean like when a buddy doesn't get that you were making a joke?

Nope, you can't joy buddies at all if "anhedonia" is present. But, originally I was referring to genital anhedonia and not generalized.

[TRA]

[QUOTE=bizzarro;7303173]I regret I've only had Latin back in high school.

But your language is Latin-based, giving you an unfair advantage. English is based on wtf.