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Originally Posted by Radical  You are absolutly incorrect!
I know what depression feels like and the only person who can get you out of it is yourself. Depression is a mindset just like joy, I'm simply offering some helpful advice to help him overcome his stuck mental state. |
Neither joy nor depression is a mindset. Joy is a feeling and depression a disease, with not only emotional and motivational symtoms but also cognitive and somatic symtoms. I quote:
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"Motivational symtoms in depression involve an inability to get started and to perform behaviors that might produce pleasure or accomplishment. A depressed student may be unable to get out of bed in the morning, let alone go to class or study. Everything seems too much of an effort. In extreme depressive reactions, the person may have to be prodded out of bed, clothed, and fed. In som cases of severe depression, the person's movements slow down and she or he walks or talks slowly and with excruciating effort.
Somatic (bodily) symtoms often include loss of appetite and weight loss in moderate and severe depression, whereas in mild depression, weight gain sometimes occurs as a person eats compulsively. Sleep disturbances, particularly insomia, are common. Sleep disturbance and weight loss lead to fatigue and weakness, which tend to add to the depressed feelings. Depressed people may also lose sexual desire and responsiveness."
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- Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour (third edition)
Authors: Michael W. Passer and Ronald E. Smith, both at the University of Washington
edit. By the way, Abraham Lincoln suffered from recurrent bouts of depression throughout his life and was, on one occasion, so depressed that he failed to show up on his own wedding. Yeah, that's right. Bad mindset.
