Yes, remember that my comment is not about enumerating all the various reasons for why someone may or may not be more or less likely to suffer from depression. My comment is specifically attacking this association between knowledge/awareness/empathy and depression as being something that naturally follows from that possession.
"How an individual may respond" is about as infinitely open-ended a statement about experience as one can make, incorporating unending psychological, physiological, genetic, epigenetic, spiritual, behavioral, and physical causes as one wants to consider. You can load it up with as much as you want or as little as you want. I would hope that you load it up commensurate with your understanding of the complexities and confounding variables.
> Never implied.
Your statement that "if you are aware of [x] you have reasons to feel hopeless" struck me as one of many here implying this link that depression follows awareness. After the umpteenth expression of this in other comments, yours was the one I replied to. I'm sorry if I read your statement incorrectly.
But it's a good time to also establish that depression is not just a negative emotional reaction. It may be reasonable to assume that most/all would experience some degree of negative emotional reaction to bad news, but it is not reasonable to assume that most/all would feel hopelessness or depression as a reaction to bad news. This has nothing to do with the knowledge itself, and everything to do with the pre-existing framework into which the new knowledge is being incorporated (and again, if we need to, let's explicitly state that, yes, the pre-existing framework is incredibly complex with many confounding variables).
> sounds like a strawman
It's hyperbole to illustrate absurdity. It might turn into a strawman if that's what I was attacking, but again, you can find many, many comments here voicing specifically what I am attacking -- the assertion that "my high level of empathy", "my awareness", "my knowledge", is integral to the person's state of depression and as often its corollary: a lack of depression follows from a lack of the empathy/awareness/knowledge. What's interesting about this humble brag is that it excuses the avoidance of difficult self-examination. It's an unhealthy coping mechanism. I call it out because I don't think it should be reinforced.
Again, if you disavow making this claim, I'm sorry to lump you in with the others that are making this claim.
There's always someone, right?
Yes, remember that my comment is not about enumerating all the various reasons for why someone may or may not be more or less likely to suffer from depression. My comment is specifically attacking this association between knowledge/awareness/empathy and depression as being something that naturally follows from that possession.
"How an individual may respond" is about as infinitely open-ended a statement about experience as one can make, incorporating unending psychological, physiological, genetic, epigenetic, spiritual, behavioral, and physical causes as one wants to consider. You can load it up with as much as you want or as little as you want. I would hope that you load it up commensurate with your understanding of the complexities and confounding variables.
> Never implied.
Your statement that "if you are aware of [x] you have reasons to feel hopeless" struck me as one of many here implying this link that depression follows awareness. After the umpteenth expression of this in other comments, yours was the one I replied to. I'm sorry if I read your statement incorrectly.
But it's a good time to also establish that depression is not just a negative emotional reaction. It may be reasonable to assume that most/all would experience some degree of negative emotional reaction to bad news, but it is not reasonable to assume that most/all would feel hopelessness or depression as a reaction to bad news. This has nothing to do with the knowledge itself, and everything to do with the pre-existing framework into which the new knowledge is being incorporated (and again, if we need to, let's explicitly state that, yes, the pre-existing framework is incredibly complex with many confounding variables).
> sounds like a strawman
It's hyperbole to illustrate absurdity. It might turn into a strawman if that's what I was attacking, but again, you can find many, many comments here voicing specifically what I am attacking -- the assertion that "my high level of empathy", "my awareness", "my knowledge", is integral to the person's state of depression and as often its corollary: a lack of depression follows from a lack of the empathy/awareness/knowledge. What's interesting about this humble brag is that it excuses the avoidance of difficult self-examination. It's an unhealthy coping mechanism. I call it out because I don't think it should be reinforced.
Again, if you disavow making this claim, I'm sorry to lump you in with the others that are making this claim.