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My layperson's understanding of depression is that it's your brain lying to you. My wife's perception of things that happened to her were often 180 degrees diff
by GlenTheMachine 8y ago
My layperson's understanding of depression is that it's your brain lying to you. My wife's perception of things that happened to her were often 180 degrees different from mine. She would take compliments I would give her, process them through the “depression” filter, and they would come out the other end as insults. You could actually watch it happen; there was a perceptible mental lag as the filters worked. To this day, her memory of those times is very different from mine.
It's not just that you lose track of normal, although that is certainly true. But it's also that you can't trust your own sensory perceptions. You are viewing the world through distorting lenses.
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- agumonkey 8y agohonestly, I had this kind of reactions even when I was "happy" .. I'd say it's more paranoid trait than depression but this is probably all very linked together.
- TrevorJ 8y agoI've noticed that (warning: gross generalization incoming) women seem to communicate differently, on average, and tend to read between the lines to see if there is any hidden or implied meaning in a statement (negative or positive). Basically, there's an entire side channel of deeper communication that I'm much less capable of decoding or using.