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Speaking as somebody who, over the last couple of months, has literally experienced new emotions ("So that's what that feels like" has been an all-too-common sentiment lately) at the age of 26, depression is... really complicated. I'm still seriously wrestling with whether or not I want to be depressed or not. But I don't think I could again; the experience has been a bit like... stepping from a black and white world to a color one; the colors are blindingly bright and it's kind of unpleasant but I think in the end I'll find this side more satisfying.
That explanation is a huge part of what made me realize I was depressed (I never really got out of the "I'm invincible!" stage of depression, I think, in spite of not knowing what I was immune -from-, except that it made other people act crazy). In retrospect I guess all the people -asking- me if I was depressed should have been a giveaway, though.
Urgh, this is really hard for me to say, as I'm still fucking angry with you over that politics thing and consider you an enemy, but... I reach out to you. I know what the lack of colour and the inability to care and the resentment at other people caring feels like. No-one should go through this. Thank you for responding. I hope it stabilizes.
I should probably get off my ass and make a Discussion post with a personal story and some links re: depression. The cycle of guilt, the suicidal ideation, all that nasty shit some of us struggle with.
Wow. I don't know what went down, but I really appreciate the difficulty you went through to make this sentiment.
Disclaimer: in similar situations before, onlookers have said that I'm easily riled up, etc. I was extremely upset about that particular conversation, though; not linking to it.
I assume we're talking about this, which was entirely ridiculous on about every level.
My reading of the thread is that one person who deeply cared about an issue talked to someone that didn't care about it, but had an obsessive need to be right.
The politics experiment, I'll willingly admit, was a failure, which is why I dropped it. But I don't think it created any serious animosities.
It would be a useful post to participate in, I think. For a site about rationality, we don't talk here much about emotions. That's kind of... an interesting blind spot.
It may be quite important since strong emotions can be such a huge motivating force to do irrational things before you've thought everything out.
They don't just motivate you to do different things, they cause different thoughts to form, to occur to you.