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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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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
i'm trying to say that depression-the-experience and anxiety-the-experience are both symptoms of what feels to me like the same or similar underlying condition (i really dislike the term "disorder"), which manifests in different ways depending on how stressful your life is
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