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Here's an honest question. Is it called depression when your mental state accurately reflects your situation. I suspect for many people, life really is bad, and
by mbfg 5y ago
Here's an honest question. Is it called depression when your mental state accurately reflects your situation. I suspect for many people, life really is bad, and they feel commensurately bad as well. Is that depression? Or is depression when you feel worse than you "should" given your actual state?
I generally have no hope for my own future, i have no real sense of happiness in any meaningful way, i am trapped in my circumstances, with no way out. I generally feel bad all the time. I don't think i'm depressed however, because i believe my mental state more or less depicts my actual situation.
- DarylZero 5y agoThe diagnostic criteria make exceptions for mourning but not for realistic evaluation of future prospects. In practice psychological diagnosis is not a science of any kind. It's not like a medical diagnosis.
- sjg007 5y agoFuture prospects are inherently unknowable. So by that definition you should consider this depression.
- nbvb5464 5y agoI think not quite so unknowable. Economic and resources close future quite certain availability prognosis is in the range of even the most basic common sense, and yeah, for many, the prospects are shockingly depressing.