Percentage seems logarithmic, like the Richter scale
I wish there was a tabulated / spreadsheet version with the columns ‘percentage’, ‘description’, ‘emotionally’, ‘cognitively’, ‘personally’ or something (might create this myself based on your main text)
Your “when depressed, I am not (in reality) the person I see myself as. I have a self-image, a conception of what I’m supposed to be like, and my depressed self isn’t it” resonates with how I felt when I was depressed. That said in my case my self-image was quite grounded in reality (the conception was of “where I was supposed to be in life” with externally observable correlates others could verify for themselves), improving my life condition over the years was key to me reducing my depression, and this matches some (but to my chagrin not all) of the depressed people I have tried to help
This is great, thank you Sable. Some thoughts:
Percentage seems logarithmic, like the Richter scale
I wish there was a tabulated / spreadsheet version with the columns ‘percentage’, ‘description’, ‘emotionally’, ‘cognitively’, ‘personally’ or something (might create this myself based on your main text)
Your “when depressed, I am not (in reality) the person I see myself as. I have a self-image, a conception of what I’m supposed to be like, and my depressed self isn’t it” resonates with how I felt when I was depressed. That said in my case my self-image was quite grounded in reality (the conception was of “where I was supposed to be in life” with externally observable correlates others could verify for themselves), improving my life condition over the years was key to me reducing my depression, and this matches some (but to my chagrin not all) of the depressed people I have tried to help