Interesting Links for 28-08-2018

[andrewducker]

The worst Edinburgh festival venues in ‘Bad Boss Awards’

(tags: work Edinburgh fringe OhForFucksSake )

Pension opt-outs have not jumped since auto-enrolment rate rise

(tags: pensions GoodNews )

Emmanuel Macron rejects Theresa May's plea for help to rescue her Brexit plan

(tags: uk europe doom france )

Path to 2 nm May Not Be Worth It (for computer processors)

(tags: computers technology size thefuture )

Online Bettors Good Indicator For If Psychology Studies Will Replicate

(tags: psychology gambling )

How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap

I find OpenStreetMap really useful for footpaths, and details that Google doesn't bother with.
(tags: maps OpenStreetMap )

Depressed people find it hard to tell which negative emotion they're feeling

(tags: depression psychology )

EU calls Trump’s bluff as he takes an ax to the WTO

(tags: wto usa europe )

Germany calls for global payments system free of US

(tags: Germany usa money )

Stop telling women how they should talk

(tags: women voice viaFanf )

Diet has bigger impact on emotional well-being in women than in men

(tags: diet mentalhealth gender )

Blizzard disabling paid loot boxes in Overwatch & Heroes Of The Storm in Belgium

(tags: games gambling belgium )

Comments

Re: Depression

[ninetydegrees]

I completely agree and the article should have dug deeper indeed. However, I also think there's a grain a truth in what they're saying. Depression for me was apathy but also overwhelming sadness, self-hate and guilt. This manifested as anger most of the time. But not the other way around. Now I take anger as a warning sign. Like I'm peeling an onion to get to the root emotion if that makes sense. I also suffer from anxiety and this one can be hard to spot on a day-to-day basis. It's helpful to me to distinguish sadness from anxiety or other emotions, and just practice self awareness in general.

Re: Depression

[agoodwinsmith]

I think it might be convenient for therapists if depressed people would only present one emotion at a time for review. I also think asking a depressed person to give a shit about labelling emotions when getting out of bed has no nameable rewards is expecting a bit much. I think what the researchers are seeing as inability to label emotions is more likely to be disinterest in the task.

I think, also, that I am basically built out of impotent rage and paranoid distrust, neither one of which one is supposed to admit, so if I were depressed again, and asked to identify my negative emotions, I am unlikely to share the truth with someone who is asking me because they are writing a research paper. Add the apathy and disinterest, and my answers are gonna be pretty vague and contradictory.