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Negative thoughts are one’s own fault because nothing is bad?

• blancheneige 7y ago
  If your only way to argue with parent's comment is to extrapolate it to an extreme s/he did not articulate then maybe you should give it another read.
• DisruptiveDave 7y ago
  Well nuanced response, this is. Perhaps you'd like to read my comment again and address something I actually said? Would be happy to discuss.
  • defterGoose 7y ago
    So basically you're arguing that the perceived (or real) precariousness of one's environment should or does have no bearing on one's mental state. It's their fault for not having an overly optimistic perspective. While I agree that it's almost laudable to have an unshakably optimistic outlook on life, its also not very conducive to making the hard decisions and sacrifices that history teaches us must often be made in the pursuit of a brighter future. Getting down to brass tacks, (and I know I'll have a lot of boomers screaming about the cold war and mutually-assured-destruction, which is actually why I believe the cold war wasn't as scary as they thought) the world seems to me, and a lot of the most learned people out there, to be in an unprecedentedly dangerous state due to what can only be described as a global pollution epidemic and the apparent beginnings of large-scale ecosystem collapse. There's also an element to your original post of "why don't depressed people just snap out of it?" which is, as always, risible.