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If we change the word "unhappy" to "despairing" does it make sense?

• nl 4y ago
  I don't know - it's your argument. If it helps, unhappiness/despair seem like different degrees of the same feeling. Depression is a different feeling. The closest analogy I can think of is that "amused" and "satisfied" are both positive feelings, but they are different and you can't treat the cause the same even if some of the symptoms are similar.
  • emodendroket 4y ago
    “Exogenous depression” is supposed to be experienced by about a fifth of people at one point or another. What if many persistent cases of depression were actually exogenous? That might be more interesting than parsing the difference between despair, hopelessness, anhedonia, and depression.
• NavinF 4y ago
  No
  • emodendroket 4y ago
    Thanks for your contribution to the discussion.