The Real Depth of Depression
Okay well first you can't say whether depression is a disease comparable to diabetes or cancer like dad would have me think it is. Depression changes your personality and your entire outlook on life. Its a physical and mental disease, the parts of it that alter personality though. Humans cant begin to try to separate a trait brought on by depression or just a personality trait. Humans are such social creatures that they tend to over-analyze (yes they do, don't tell me thats just the depression and my tendancy toward paranoia of judgement. The second you do, you've just proven my point so either way I win).
As for the creativity/depression theory.. Art is a form of exression. It was pointed out in the article that deep sadness can sometimes be passionate. Or "depression" is just what happens when you look at the world around you and think woah... shit.
No one likes a nuclear winter!
Depression has been so much a part of human society for so long that it would be impossible for us to tell what aspects of personality are changed completely by this "disease", which are altered a little, and which aren't effected at all.
I'm still trying to figure out most of the concepts he was talking about in the article.
As someone who looked at the world of high school and thought aww, this blows... And couldn't get out of that thought, Im not sure how I feel about the whole :"theres nothing deep about depression" thing..
people see that something sucks and they get on with life. Or they try to change it. "Depressed" people see that something sucks and they wallow in it. Never stop thinking about how much it sucks, always distracted by the ungodly amount of suckiness that was somehow squeezed into such a small amount of space/time.
Because you spend more time thinking about it, you can describe it in more ways, come up with more theories as to why or how it happened, etc. Not because your depression gave you mindpower, but because depression kept you from thinking about anything else.
As for the creativity/depression theory.. Art is a form of exression. It was pointed out in the article that deep sadness can sometimes be passionate. Or "depression" is just what happens when you look at the world around you and think woah... shit.
No one likes a nuclear winter!
Depression has been so much a part of human society for so long that it would be impossible for us to tell what aspects of personality are changed completely by this "disease", which are altered a little, and which aren't effected at all.
I'm still trying to figure out most of the concepts he was talking about in the article.
As someone who looked at the world of high school and thought aww, this blows... And couldn't get out of that thought, Im not sure how I feel about the whole :"theres nothing deep about depression" thing..
people see that something sucks and they get on with life. Or they try to change it. "Depressed" people see that something sucks and they wallow in it. Never stop thinking about how much it sucks, always distracted by the ungodly amount of suckiness that was somehow squeezed into such a small amount of space/time.
Because you spend more time thinking about it, you can describe it in more ways, come up with more theories as to why or how it happened, etc. Not because your depression gave you mindpower, but because depression kept you from thinking about anything else.
posted by Mabreg at 1:53 PM
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