There is a body of work by Matthew Ratcliffe, written very recently, about depression as deep mood. He reaches back to Heidegger, and the notion that mood, in a profound sense, just is how we feel about the world. It can feel all-permeating, insinuating itself into perception, belief and the thinkable. I heartily recommend his work as a starting point. In my studies I've been exploring emotion and mood, I'm interested in how un-emotional the language of analytic philosophy is, and whether emotion reaches into the cognitive. — mcdoodle
Specifically, when a philosopher point out that the will is powerless, what does he or she mean by that? — Question
The third aspect is kind of the wildcard. It is even more mysterious and impenetrable than the first two, because there is nothing necessarily to be done or learned or changed or expressed. — 0 thru 9
Depression is a diagnosis -- meaning that it is a term for an illness, with which there is at least the desire for a cure and a set of symptoms which indicate that this description of the illness is true and this cure is what is needed to extirpate said illness. — Moliere
However, I don't think depression ever ceases to exist. — Question
I answered that in your last thread: through reflection.Anyway, how do you even treat a mood? — Question
I don't see why. People calling me ill while I was depressed was instead what was exacerbating my disorder.To call it a disorder would only exacerbate the disorder, if not already by a wide margin. — Question
I answered that in your last thread: through reflection. — Noblosh
I don't know who fooled you into taking meds for depression but you're the one complaining it doesn't help, so why do it? — Noblosh
I don't understand, part of the point of the approach that depression is a pervasive mood is to enable a person to be empowered in relation to it. Moods are not intractable. The philosophy of emotions that I enjoy doesn't make a rational/emotional split in the way youre describing. Rationality is built on premisses that include emotional ones. And emotions are themselves often judgments, and, some would argue, perceptions. If we're to understand the world of our feelings, we need to devote our rationality and our emotional intelligence to the job. — mcdoodle
I see you've embraced your monster which was definitely not the point. I'm not arguing depression isn't real, I'm arguing depression isn't an absolute truth and that you're the one giving it that importance.One does not feel that depression is a state of mind; but, rather something real and concrete about how one ought feel about the world. — Question
My point, in part, is pointing out that depression has become a dependency disorder. — Question
I know that a certain man was visiting her house when the husband and kids were at school (every Thursday), and they were having sex. Now, this guy looked like the type you see in porn shoots. Bald head, shaved legs, tall and muscular, wearing khaki shorts with black glasses (funnily enough similar to the type you see from police officers but I digress). — Question
I knew a woman who had constant anxiety, her emotional malady always present despite years passing and I soon realised that despite all the advice given, she was unable to perceive what happiness actually was to her that her happiness almost became the anxiety — TimeLine
And I don't agree that depression never ceases to exist for those who have been depressed at one time or another. It's not something that you're stuck with for life, but something which can come and go. I reject this false dichotomy of either being depressed or coping with depression, and everyone else must be in denial. There do exist people who, for periods of time, are genuinely neither depressed, nor coping with depression, but for whom depression has no place in their life. — Sapientia
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