I think depressed people are more likely to accept the negatives as a reality, but that's about where it stops for me. The people that I know who have depression, SERIOUS depression, seem to have blinders on to any "bright side" or "positive" in life. You buy them a new car? It's not the model I really wanted. You try to take them out to a nice lunch? It's too loud, there are too many people out here... depression isn't just a mood, in serious cases, it affects your perception.
Depression may make it easier to accept the negatives and look at things from a less than delightful point of view and certain ways of thinking can lead to depression when one developes a greater understanding of what is truly going on around them (as my grandmother said "the most intelligent people have the most problems because they see the world for what is really is"), but I don't think depression itself causes disillusionment.
are depressed people more likely to see through illusions in life?
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I think depressed people are more likely to accept the negatives as a reality, but that's about where it stops for me. The people that I know who have depression, SERIOUS depression, seem to have blinders on to any "bright side" or "positive" in life. You buy them a new car? It's not the model I really wanted. You try to take them out to a nice lunch? It's too loud, there are too many people out here... depression isn't just a mood, in serious cases, it affects your perception.
Depression may make it easier to accept the negatives and look at things from a less than delightful point of view and certain ways of thinking can lead to depression when one developes a greater understanding of what is truly going on around them (as my grandmother said "the most intelligent people have the most problems because they see the world for what is really is"), but I don't think depression itself causes disillusionment.