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I have been thinking about this for a while now. It seems that memory, and their lack of, is the root of all problems. In this discussion I want to mostly cover the issue of depression and related psychological problems, and their relation to memory.
I have personally been fighting with this for a while now, and have recently observed that the problem doesn't completely lie within sadness, but the abillity to remember. Speceficly, the abillity to remember positive event occurences in their entirety. People who are depressed are often saying they can't feel happy for long. You can often have bright moments in your life, but they don't fix things in the long term. Why? Because the joy and happiness of these events simply can not be remembered. The event itself is not so much forgotten, but the true emotional context of it is forgotten.
How to go about fixing this, I am not sure, but I feel like this is something that could be worked on with training of some kind. Memory does have the abillity to be improved over time, and there are many different kinds of memories.
It also seems that sometimes the emotional context of memories can be retained too strongly. Anger being one of them. Sometimes, one can not remember anything else about a person or event without feeling some sort of anger, it then skews everything else about it and can not be retained correctly.
I feel like all of these issues with how something is remembered, really is at the core of most psychological disorders, in particular something like depression. So, what is your take on this. How do you feel about this, and have you ever experienced this within yourself? Discuss.
I have personally been fighting with this for a while now, and have recently observed that the problem doesn't completely lie within sadness, but the abillity to remember. Speceficly, the abillity to remember positive event occurences in their entirety. People who are depressed are often saying they can't feel happy for long. You can often have bright moments in your life, but they don't fix things in the long term. Why? Because the joy and happiness of these events simply can not be remembered. The event itself is not so much forgotten, but the true emotional context of it is forgotten.
How to go about fixing this, I am not sure, but I feel like this is something that could be worked on with training of some kind. Memory does have the abillity to be improved over time, and there are many different kinds of memories.
It also seems that sometimes the emotional context of memories can be retained too strongly. Anger being one of them. Sometimes, one can not remember anything else about a person or event without feeling some sort of anger, it then skews everything else about it and can not be retained correctly.
I feel like all of these issues with how something is remembered, really is at the core of most psychological disorders, in particular something like depression. So, what is your take on this. How do you feel about this, and have you ever experienced this within yourself? Discuss.