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It's a Wonderful Life: Persistent Depressive Disorder, Anxiety, and Existentialism

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The Anxiety Moment

I think that the underlying depression and all that resentment that's built up for years, like you're saying factors into it, but the trigger. Emotion here is the anxiety. And I guess maybe because I'm thinking of it too, like I feel like I'm just like that. The movie really does a job of like setting up choice after choice seeming like he did not want to do that. He's not happy to be here. Or he's doing it cause he feels like he has to be the responsible one and the older brother. Not even for accolades, but just because that's his responsibility in life,. That must be burdening the fuck out of him.

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