Posted: Nov 14, 2016 10:05 am
igorfrankensteen wrote:Something which ought to be recognized, if it isn't already, is that just as there is such a thing as "walking pneumonia," that there is also such a thing as might be called "cheerful depression." Lots of people who suffer from depression, behave to the contrary, to most appearances.
Personally, I used to 'act' happy. Sometimes it even helped. I believe it's true that you can alter your own mood by thinking and acting a certain way. It's a sort of fooling your body. But mostly I did it because I didn't want people to know I had depression.
On the other hand, I believe there are those who have a type of depression that involves natural mood swings from high to low.