system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Wars] So, is Vader just struggling with depression these days?

Like, I know in the old continuity, Vader's suit was designed to make him suffer, as well as keep him alive. In the current continuity, though, it's apparently filled with pain killers and sedatives to keep him relatively comfortable, so, is it just self-loathing that holds him back now?
gpt
Pretty much. His mental anguish is extreme, and enforced time and again by a perpetually disappointed Palpatine. In a way, his physical mutilation is far less serious than what his mind/soul endured on the day he realized he lost Padme. 

Because he thinks/knows he lost everything he was fighting for, it definitely makes him feel broken, hopeless and depressed. But at the same time, it makes him fucking terrifying. He has so much self-loathing and internalized anger that his control of the dark side is incredible, and he's able to ignore many of the consequences of his brutal jedi hunts because he simply doesn't feel compassion for them. As Obi-Wan said, he was more machine than man, twisted and evil. Not just in body, but in mind.