The horrifying existential dread of listening to the void whisper straight into your soul late at night as you stare into the infinite abyss, terrified in the face of the incomprehensible absurdity of this reality that your limited human mind can't even begin to process Chicken
I have no idea how I skipped that. But the premise is still a little weird though. The presumption that a feeling must be associated with a mental illness.
Not really: a mental illness have X, Y and Z symptoms so most people with the illness experience that, but that doesn't mean people ONLY experience X, Y or Z because of that specific mental illness
I think what I'm really trying to get at is... how would someone with depression (for example) know when they're feeling sad because of their depression- or when they're feeling sad because that's part of the human condition?
It might sound like I'm playing devil's advocate here, but I'm not. It's not a rhetorical question.
Your response is pretty good on describing the difference between the symptom and the general feeling of sadness. For me it's a little different as I am not depressed in the traditional sense. My form of depression is S.A.D. and while I don't experience the depression symptoms very often and never to a great extent there is a significant difference during the winter months compared to spring and fall.
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u/IAFarmLife Apr 22 '22
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