depression help: Please read this lengthy monologue and then tell me that I’m right: The Entire World is Wrong and That’s Why I’m so Depressed. - Help.com

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I voted “other” because if it is the world doing it to an individual, the disease is called “oppression”, not “depression” even if every other symptom is the same.

Doing a reality-check on the diagnosis is important because the solution to one is not the solution to the other.

That’s my opinion on this opinion poll.

no, coz thats a pretty pathetic view

most-wanted-websites wrote:
How would a “reality-check” actually work

um…. see if changing the world solves the problem, and if not, see if changing the person solves the problem. Then make up after the fact what the real problem actually was if it’s not there any more but know that you might be completely wrong.

Sorry I only have stupid things to say sometime. I’m sure it depresses my readers, but it’s the world’s fault for not edumacting me better.

I had to agree with the statement, but with tongue firmly lodged in cheek. In all matters of opinion it is immediatly obvious that one’s opponant is insane. I think the ‘reality-check’ would encompass working out what the rest of the world held as fact opposed to the individual and what the rest of the world held as opinion opposed to the individual. Colloquial English often leads us to express opinion as fact. Once you’ve worked out the difference, you have to accept that you are an individual - not subject to a ‘hive mind’ and just have to live with the fact that we all think differently to each other.
Another thought that just struck me - the way your monologue was phrased seemed (to me anyway) to suggest that not only did the rest of the world disagree with you but it was united in disagreement. As if the rest of the world all thought exactly the same thing as diametricaly opposed to you. But I’m reading it in terms of empiricaly wrong rather than moraly wrong.

most-wanted-websites wrote:
[quote Michael Leibman]see if changing the world solves the problem

On a case-by-case basis it can sometimes be obvious. When people say I’m wrong and the problem, in ways that I most certainly am not, that no one else would accuse me of, I have to assume it says something only about the person saying it, rather than about the outside world that I represent to them. That’s for example, but it really happens all the time, we do do these reality checks as best we can.

My original logic is that it is really disempowering to blame the world that is beyond our control, and will-to-power is one of the basics of living, therefore such possibly disempowering attitudes would have to have a lot of evidence or cause to be enacted.

It’s a good thing I don’t own the World…I’d be embarrassed. Take care BD, hope you are able to have some fun:)