Comments on: Study Examines Three Aspects of Emotional Functioning Among Depressed

By: chuck

chuck — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:16:09 +0000

When you’re feeling down and empty it’s really hard to get up and gather positive emotions! It’s like the more you think of your depression the more you drown into it :(

By: Jason Luoma

Jason Luoma — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:02:18 +0000

Jake,

PA and NA have been empirically shown to be relatively independent. People are able to feel two things at once, for example, you can feel both interested and angry at the same time. That would be an example of both high PA (interested) and high NA (angry) at the same time. Also, these measure aggregate responses over time and thus a person could have a tendency toward rarely experiencing happiness (low PA) and another person could have a tendency toward often experiencing happiness (hi PA). A person who alternated between periods of sadness and happiness would be classified as high PA, high NA, while a person who alternated between periods of sadness and a neutral mood would be High NA, low PA.

That help?

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:23:30 +0000

from experience: it is hard to see anything positive in your life when you are depressed, everything has this tinge of gray that can’t be made bright

By: B.Edwards

B.Edwards — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:24:11 +0000

Not only is it important to let the good things in life affect you in a positive manner but it is also important to not let negative things have a negative effect.try to derive positives even from negatives and take each failure as a lesson in life!

By: nathan f

nathan f — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:22:39 +0000

There are always some people who can’t handle anything negative in life. It’s like they forget that we were not promised that life will be a smiles. They forget that it will have real ups and downs, and when they have to face the downs they can’t handle it.

By: JAKE

JAKE — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:17:32 +0000

Hmm,I wudve thot PA and NA would be exactly inversely proportional.But wat cud be the reason it isnt so??

By: Georgia

Georgia — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:16:28 +0000

I don’t know. I look at all of these factors and I can see how there are those who have dealth with negative affect and emotional instability all of their lives and then how this also leads them to becoming depressed. For many of them all of these factors seem as if they are this tangled web of mental unhalthiness and that they struggle to break free from but never quite can.

But for others, depression is something that can blindside you. You may feel great one week, but them it begins to slowly come on and before you know it you too are facing depression and you are left wondering why and how. I know that for most people maybe there are the early indications that depression could become an issue for them at some point in their lives; but for others, all it takes is a traumatic event or life change to put it into motion and this is another population that is also having to face the fear of depression and having their mental health turned upside down.