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Ennui sounds like a boring old depression

• freehunter 6y ago
  The difference tends to be ennui is caused by lack of stimulation where depression is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.
  • roywiggins 6y ago
    Maybe, but lack of motivation unable to enjoy things you previously liked disinterest in the future constant low energy Are classic signs of clinical depression. Nobody gets diagnosed with clinical depression based on brain chemistry, they get diagnosed on symptoms. And these symptoms are basically the same ones.
    • dkersten 6y ago
      Sounds like over stimulation too. If you’re constantly stimulated by high dopamine, low effort activities (eg social media) then your base level of dopamine is so high that mundane or high effort activities don’t provide enough dopamine to seem worthwhile to your body. Then motivation and concentration on these activities becomes very very hard.
    • freehunter 6y ago
      That would be a diagnostic failure. Treating someone with anti-depressants when they do not have clinical depression could ruin their life, even end their life (suicide is a side effect of many anti-depressant medications).
      • roywiggins 6y ago
        Depression is diagnosed based on clinical symptoms, not brain chemistry. Read the list of symptoms from the DSM V and compare- "chronic ennui" as defined in the article would get you most of the way there. https://www.psycom.net/depression-definition-dsm-5-diagnostic-criteria/ https://www.psycom.net/depression-definition-dsm-5-diagnosti...
  • sosuke 6y ago
    I think they might have much more overlap potential than you imagine from other perspectives.
  • Allower 6y ago
    pure speculation and not even useful at that
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