I'm still thinking about this I mean, I'm always thinking about this There's that old saying "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you" And, well, just because you're depressed doesn't mean the world isn't irrevocably and hopelessly going to shithttps://twitter.com/propublica/status/1370568967044149249 …
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Here's one take I've been sitting on for a while -- depression is a bias toward *stasis* and *inaction*, and people in our society therefore treat it as fundamentally disordered ("Nothing gets better if you just sit there and do nothing")
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But this is, I think, incorrect Our society has a MASSIVE bias toward action vs. inaction, toward looking and acting busy even when you have no basis for making any kind of informed decision to act
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Oh, of course; but neither Paranoia nor Depression is actually adaptive when they reach clinical proportions
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