I think there is a lot of merit to this. I think depression and shame are related in that they both have to do with a real or perceived inability to cope with the expectations and pressures we feel from the world around us.
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Personally, I'm starting to believe that authenticity is a sham and that everything is performative. There is no such thing as the "real" me. There is a me that feels safe and elicits acceptance and validation, and there is a me that elicits shaming and ostracizing.
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And we go through cycles and phases of each in varying degrees. There is a lot of shaming to conform, while at the same time we're told to not care what other people think. That's performative, too. And a waste of time. It's enough cultivate depression in anyone.
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Shame changes the brain. Shame in childhood is connected to our ability to get our basic survival needs met. And in adulthood it's meant to disconnect us from that same validation and connection we need to survive. Without it, there surely is deprssion.
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I agree with him all the way.
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I don't know about clinical depression but I do know when I'm feeling depressed, it happens when I'm the most fed up with the situation or role that I'm in
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