• insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I feel like that’s just… perception. Context and averages mean that 1 hour into suffering likely would be perceived/remembered as worse than after 1 minute of suffering, even if the pain was exactly the same. Even if perception of pain was reduced, later experience of the same suffering would likely include the more painful older event and thus still would be seen as worse.

    That and I know I don’t really have a good way to measure how well I’m actually doing. I don’t have sleep quality or nutrition charts, logged hours of activities, written-down mindsets, or really much of anything that could be tracked down to a particular year. Y’know, other than knowing I’m not doing great with a lot of things.

    Though I think most people would say there were things they wanted to do in the past (that didn’t work out for whatever reason) that were a source of hope making things seem better as well. Also even if things weren’t great, it may have been a high point for a short time. I don’t know what years those would be for me, though probably not 2016 and onwards.

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      1 year ago

      So you vote nostalgia. Because nostalgia is just perception while depression is a mental health issue.

      2019, I was happy and doing well, sure there were issues, but in general, all was well. What happened in 2020 broke me. It was not just coronavirus, but that was a factor as well.

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        1 year ago

        So you vote nostalgia. Because nostalgia is just perception while depression is a mental health issue.

        Well, no. Stress and trauma both involve perception. My main point was that experience compounds, and that is a different explanation than faulty memory. I would also say that if you split this beyond just bad and good, a small change in life circumstance can actually make a big difference particularly near rock bottom.

        Nostalgia seems like a different concept/situation for me, one that I personally would say is linked to escapism (particularly with experiencing media it’s only a loose connection to that time) at least for younger generations.