Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017)
I&#x27;m not so depressed these days (thankfully) but this &quot;realism&quot; does tend to manifest is different ways. I&#x27;m very self-conscious about not dragging people down because some thoughts that I think daily that are normal for me, seem to be absolutely psychologically crippling for people who previously hadn&#x27;t, or didn&#x27;t want to think such things.<p>Usually when I do express these thoughts they&#x27;re in the form of semi-dark humor (&quot;You don&#x27;t like the boss? Don&#x27;t worry, you&#x27;ll only have to deal with him for a couple more years (because you won&#x27;t quit) and then the company will go under and you&#x27;ll have to work somewhere else with a similar boss&quot;). The humor is to mostly try to diffuse how harsh these statements can seem to others, and because I find them legitimately morosely funny, but for some reason I tend not to get laughter when I say them... So I try to keep this &quot;depressive realism&quot; to myself most of the time.<p>I promise I have social skills. That&#x27;s probably my biggest consistent faux pas. But sometimes I wonder why I can lose friends so fast by just saying things that are true or are very likely to be true. I guess a lot of people don&#x27;t like to see that clearly? I don&#x27;t know.