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> and it just so happens that I have always been able to articulate the causes. You mean "rationalize." Humans are really good at finding causal relationships
by KirinDave 13y ago
> and it just so happens that I have always been able to articulate the causes.
You mean "rationalize." Humans are really good at finding causal relationships between things, even when they aren't there. I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't feel a certain way, but diagnosable depressing is often more complex than "I over-exerted myself".
Personally, I found the article vacuous because it presumes that you can figure out what's going on in your head. It's pretty well established at this point that we cannot reliably do this.
- benched 13y agoThe inability of human beings to agree on the causes of brain states, does not mean that there are not causes, or that they are unknowable.
- KirinDave 13y ago> does not mean that there are not causes, or that they are unknowable. Indeed, but it surely means that uninformed self-assessments are nearly worthless, wrong, and even a little pretentious. I am of the opinion from my read of the current literature that it's all but impossible for you to accurately self-assess this. I'd love for an expert in neurology to correct me on this because it'd be more optimistic to believe otherwise.