Nietzsche had some interesting theories about this. Like some kind of morbid deformity. For example the will to feel bad when listening to sad music. — Heiko
Depression is usually constitutive of an inability to overcome certain aspects about one's existence that have associated with them negative emotions or pain. — Blue Lux
Depression is often because one has a reason to be depressed: they will the depression. — Blue Lux
hey will the depression because they do not want to let go and accept the indefinability of these negative emotions and experiences. People do not want to let go of how they feel because that would be departing from oneself... — Blue Lux
The realization of a negative emotion is inconsequential. What is important is not letting it remain in its determining configuration, as it will determine the future and it will chain you to it, because it is outside of you, not integrated, not accepted. — Blue Lux
Accepting an emotion is not suppressing it actively. — Blue Lux
But that is what would happen eventually, for the unsuppressed emotion is that which persists and characterizes the Will's inability to escape it. — Blue Lux
to survive is to find meaning in the suffering — Blue Lux
Accepting an emotion is not suppressing it actively.
— Blue Lux
So, therefore you are talking about the unconscious process' of defence mechanisms or such? — Posty McPostface
Unsuppressed or suppressed, not sure I'm understanding you here.
13m — Posty McPostface
What I am referring to is the fact that, subsequently, down the line after accepting an emotion, the emotion's power over the will becomes suppressed. — Blue Lux
I could not summarize this along the lines of Nietzsche (as he is really hardcore), but the general statement would be it is not the inability to "lift (yourself) out of depression" but the inability to stop yourself sinking into it. The depression itself, the painful thought as uncontrolled will to effect, as exercise of power in the absence of power to effect the world. — Heiko
willpower and control seems to me to be the same in this scenario.... — Aleksander Kvam
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