@Charles_in_Charge@RichardKuklinskisIcyGlare That's true - there's also a physical component to it, where the neurons in your brain stop growing. That's why anti-depressants take a month to work - they're regrowing the neurons. Which is not always a good thing.
@RichardKuklinskisIcyGlare@Roscoe Depression is itself an emotion, along with the associated emotions like anger, resentment, etc. You sound a lot like me pre-stroke.
@Roscoe Humans are emotional creatures, not rational ones. We use what little powers of reason we have to justify our emotions and do short term tasks. The very few among us who are entirely rational at all times are called autistic, which is to say, brain damaged.
I have no ups or downs emotions 😏 just a flatline on that. Although the only thing that could be construed as emotions is chronic emotional turmoil or permanent sadness, a persistent malaise as if everything is covered in a black funeral shroud. The rest is just rigid logic. I'm a very hard and unfeeling man like Clint Eastwood on Gran Torino