novalis comments on How to Deal with Depression - The Meta Layers - Less Wrong

26 Post author: ShannonFriedman 26 October 2012 06:44PM

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Comment author: ShannonFriedman 26 October 2012 07:23:07PM 1 point [-]

Thanks for explaining. I have not read anything else like this, hence my motivation to write it up. I imagine there is evidence out there, but I don't know how to find it - "meta depression" is my own descriptive language, I don't know how people in the psych community would identify this concept, so I don't know what I would search. I'd love to hear of anything anyone else finds.

Comment author: novalis 26 October 2012 07:29:33PM 2 points [-]

I think REBT uses the term "Awfulizing" to describe a piece of this cluster. That might be a good place to start.

Comment author: ShannonFriedman 26 October 2012 07:38:10PM 1 point [-]

Thanks. That's a similar concept, but not what I'm most interested in - depression about being depressed is more specific than simple catastrophizing. Its the sort of thing that I think Less Wrongers would get that is more subtle than most material out there.