Bruno Cabasson wrote:

>> Yeah, but when you're depressed you gain no satisfaction from positive 
>> actions...
> 
> As strange as it could sound, this statement is partially wrong: the 
> correct statement would have rather been "Yeah, but when you're 
> depressed you FEEL you gain no satisfaction from positive actions". In 
> the depressive cases, you FEEL you are better only when you ARE already 
> OK again and recovered most of your capabilities (or a significant part 
> of them). BUT you get better and better, unaware of the process, until 
> you reach the state where you are (can be/freed enough to be) aware of 
> it yourself. So, positive actions are always profitable even if the 
> subject feels the opposite. This is a matter of perception and 
> 'internal' communication.

I should have been more clear in my statement. I did, of course, mean 
that I don't *feel* satisfaction, not that I actually fail to gain any, 
eventually :)

Sam

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