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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
incidentally this kind of thing is why i don’t think “depression” and “anxiety” are really separate anymore. seems to me there’s ~1 thing, and depression is when you have that thing + can easily avoid situations that trigger you, and anxiety is when you have that thing + can’t
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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an individual unconscious contract in isolation can seem heroic or noble. i still want to treat other people better than my father treated me the problem, and the connection with depression, is when you accumulate so many "avoid at ALL COSTS" that no actions feel possible
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
hmm okay i was not being very precise with my language here. "depression" and "anxiety" could both refer either to a specific experience in the moment or to a """disorder""" and i mean to compare the latter not the former
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Divia Eden 🔍 is in Austin Aug 2-25
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I’m not sure I’m using these words in any standard way myself, but the phenomenology of the two seem super different to me. Anxiety is more like spiraling around something I can’t put my finger on, depression more like sickness behavior/wanting to lie down and not do stuff.
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David Chapman
@Meaningness
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@QiaochuYuan
This seems about right to me. (Also some of the clinical literature agrees!) I'm supposed to write about depression and anxiety in nihilism after I get through intellectualization, but I'm feeling somewhat stuck on the intellectualization :)
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Mikael Brockman 🥸
@meekaale
continuing my current shtick… “The extent to which nearly all symptoms of depression may be interpreted as symptoms of a comprehensive loss of resonance is frankly remarkable.” — Hartmut Rosa, Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World
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