Depression and Oversensitivity
Once again this past week I’ve been tearing my hair out over something that happened on my forum for people with depression. You might think the most frequent problem on the depression forum would be suicidal members. I have to say that I kind of expected that to be a big problem when I started the forum, but thankfully, that has not been the case.
No, my biggest problem is squabbles among the members. It goes on almost all the time. And as far as I can tell, one of the main causes of the squabbles is that many depressed people can be overly sensitive. An offhand comment that would just roll off the back of someone who’s not depressed can send a depressive into an hour-long bout of crying. It’s not something you see often on lists of depression symptoms. I don’t know why, unless it is too subjective to measure.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog … or an insensitive bore. Face to face communication tends to be more civil … probably for fear of a physical consequence of misbehavior.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Exactly. The anonymity can be a curse as well as a blessing.