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Nope - clinical depression is different from "feeling bad in response" to a specific stimulus. If you do something hurtful to me and I feel bad about it, that's
by racer-v 9y ago
Nope - clinical depression is different from "feeling bad in response" to a specific stimulus. If you do something hurtful to me and I feel bad about it, that's not depression. When nothing is happening and I feel bad in general, that's depression.
The article says, people who feel bad in response to specific types of stimulus (a perceived slight), rather than just shrugging it off, are more likely to develop full-blown clinical depression down the line.
- lliamander 9y agoHowever, there is a personality trait, Neuroticism, which has to do with sensitivity to negative emotion, and also does correlate with depression, anxiety, etc. In other words, if you are higher in Neuroticism (i.e. more susceptible to negative emotions) then you are more likely to also develop clinical depression.
- racer-v 9y agoWhat is the state of personality theory constructs with respect to empirical validation (e.g. fMRI)?
- pizza 9y agoAs for fMRI, while it's not particularly under existential threat re:empiricism, it's not necessarily a silver bullet: http://blog.brainfacts.org/2016/07/are-fmri-data-analysis-methods-reliable/ http://blog.brainfacts.org/2016/07/are-fmri-data-analysis-me... Personally, my opinion is that the ambiguity of people's self-perceptions of their persona allows there to be an asymmetry between the harm they might get receiving advice about their personality and the benefit they might get from heeding advice about personalities that they can at least envision themselves as being perceived by others as having, if that makes sense. It probably isn't particularly empirical, but I don't know if we will get to a science of personality within our lifetimes (but (maybe..?) it would be nice to be proved wrong).