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As much of a meme as this is I genuinely did feel post avatar depression. I was at the lowest point of my life in January 2010 with severe depression. Had dropped out of college, moved back into my childhood room, was a pathetic friendless neet playing PC games all day, and just felt really bad all the time. I was a real mess.
Watching Avatar had been such fantastic escapism, completely taking myself out of my depressing reality. When the lights came up in the theater I didn't want it to be over. So I do distinctly remember being in the shower one day shortly after I saw it, thinking about how it had been such an enjoyable movie, and choking back tears because I wished something that perfect could be real and I could experience it.
It was just a fleeting thought, and I didn't want to kill myself, but it did happen. I think Cameron also tapped into some primal fantasy deeply hardwired into the human brain, of joining a tribe, fighting in a just war to save your home and people, falling in love with and marrying the chief's daughter, then becoming chief yourself.
Oh and I was able to cure my depression, finish college, go to law school, and get an elite job. So things worked out for at least one post avatar depression sufferer.
