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> Aaron died because he decided suicide was the best course of action. People suffering from depression are not rational. I don't mean that "I can't make sens
by Deestan 14y ago
> Aaron died because he decided suicide was the best course of action.
People suffering from depression are not rational.
I don't mean that "I can't make sense of this decision therefore they aren't rational", but people having recovered from depression consider their own thought processes from the depression to be flat out wrong.
- BrokenPipe 14y agoIn my view there is depression and depression. Some people have good reasons to be depressed and those can be very rational reasons.
- intended 14y agoDepression has a side effect of making normal thinking patterns unusable. You could literally win a lottery, and feel that the world hates you. Your thought process would go - I won a lottery, but I still feel dead inside. Why go on, there isn't anything for live for. I hate to use an example to explain depression, because its always "explainable", but hopefully as a vignette into what every waking moment of life is like for someone with depression, it should serve its purpose. Edit: grammar in last para.
- nsfmc 14y agoJust to be clear, the article is addressing Clinical Depression not just "having the blues" or any other form of day to day depression which most people suffer. If you want a good description of how Clinical Depression varies wildly from 'rational depression,' read the Andrew Solomon's book The Noonday Demon. It's well written and, at least for me, expanded my perspective of how little I understood of severe depression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noonday_Demon:_An_Atlas_of_Depression http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noonday_Demon:_An_Atlas_of_...