Is SpongeBob Depressed?

I think he's more of a highly sensitive person who just feels his emotions strongly.

There was actually a really well done episode about SpongeBob mimicking people and how that lead to an identity crisis. He even sang about it. Granted it is a much later episodes but i think it’s one of the better ones.

theory-aside, your editing, writing, and presentation is genuinely so high quality dude. you deserve more attention.

I think that on the outside he says he’s fine, but on the inside he’s not fine, like he’s hiding his true emotions. Corrected it because it sounded terrible.

You're right SpongeBob gets depressed, there is no way SpongeBob being depressed. These two are different. He's full of life and energy. He just feels his emotions really deeply. But in general he's happy and optimistic character and I like that he gets frustrated with himself and sad or angry and jealous sometimes because that way he seems more humane. Even happy and optimistic people can feel sadness in some periods in their lives. Also i remember the episode "SpongeBob you're fired" where he actually feels really depressed. If someone has to be depressed in SpongeBob is probably Squidward (for sure) and maybe Plankton. Great job and video by the way.

The fact that: 1) he sees a fast food place as the Pinnacle of culinary achievement (see his establishing pilot, Help Wanted) 2) he has a habit of obsessing over something the instant he thinks of it 3) his constantly being portrayed as optimistic in the face of failure outside of the pickles incident and... 4) his regularly shown love pf jellyfish All tell me he's more hyperfixated than depressed. He even caves to peer pressure on occasion when it comes to being cool, outside of the Pretty Patties incident (where he proves Krabs and Squidward wrong about the concept, but does gove ot over to Krabs a day before everyone finds out it dyes THEM too). Given that he's still referred to as a kid in the first SpongeBob movie (and ends up owning it at the end), this doesn't seem too out of place to me. He's probably 18 or 19 at the oldest (physically speaking) when the series takes place. Course, it's also possible he may just be on the extreme end of the autism spectrum, much like my older brother. Edit: fixed typo

Whether or not this might be true, I totally understand on why he would be depressed. He works at a fast-food place where his boss sees him as cheap labor and his co-worker wants to avoid him all the time (sometimes it's justified though). He constantly gets mocked and humilated by the citizens in his town, who can be worse than Squidward imo. Heck, there's an episode where his OWN FRIENDS abandon him to celebrate a holiday about hating him so much.

The happiest people in the world can also be the saddest people ever.

I kinda wish you mentioned the Whobob Whatpants episode. I honestly hated that episode, because of how it starts. He starts out happy and cheerful, but then, out of nowhere, everybody turns on him for destroying things (not intentionally). Gary, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, even Sandy. They all called him Idiot Boy. (Squidward did too, but that wouldn't surprise anyone) He took it to heart and it caused him to run away. I'm not sure if you can link that to depression or not.

We should be talking about SpongeBob's ego, its very clear that while he tries to give off a nicer introduction to his character he does have another side of competitiveness to him.

I guess SpongeBob and Squidward aren't so different when dealing with psychological struggles everyday

I don't think a lot of people understand the ending of "Are you Happy now?" The whole time Squidward wasn't feeling anything at all at the time. What SpongeBob did made him feel Anger and thus the Anger made Squidward Feel Alive in the process.

He lives in bikini bottom and is a slave to the whole damn city, his best friends have left him in the past for his childish behavior he's constantly mocked by the fish folk, but when something is going wrong the fish turn to him if you ask me Spongebob shouldn't live in a pineapple he should have more respect he barely gets paid, people in society are just like him, we try so hard to be nice but we have enough and just want to have a assertive side, AGAIN when he did all his 'friends' including the smart one, told him to get rid of his abrasive side, just because HE WAS STICKING UP FOR HIMSELF

I dont know about that, but I know I am depressed. Ever since becoming an adult I have been constantly non-stop depressed and just can't cheer up. I don't have the energy or feel motivated to do anything. Even sunny days don't cheer me up, in fact they just make me feel worse.

I don't think he has depression, but I think because he feels emotions very strongly, he's susceptible to becoming depressed. As for the OCD, I actually believe that's probable because of how far he can take his obsessions and act compulsively towards them.

This actually taught me something which was that having depression and being depressed are two different things because I thought those were two different things.

Spongebob: Denial Mr. Krabs: Anger Plankton: Bargaining Squidward: Depression Patrick: Acceptance

I can see this, especially after episodes like Gone, Whobob Whatpants, etc. And sometimes, depressed people often put on a smile (pretending to be happy) to mask their true feelings. Depression can go on and off. But after certain episodes like the ones I mentioned above, it wouldn't surprise me if his mental health is declining. Poor SpongeBob.😢

Tldr version: he's not depressed, he just gets depressed in some episodes

I feel like the eoisode Dumped and also Have You See This Snail are big proof to Songebob being depressed. It seems like Gary is the main thing keeping him not depressed. Also sometimes depressed people will try to overcompensate and cope with their depression through a super optimistic attitude and always try to help everyone. Not all depressed people look like Squidward.