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by anoncake 1877 days ago
> Resilience, endurance

Literal survivor's bias. If you are depressed but not resilient, you kill yourself.

> learning to overcome adversity, learning to overcome yourself

Overcoming adversity requires doing something. Depression prevents that.

> learning to be self-aware

I wish.

> thinking "differently".

In what way?

1 comments

Relative To the numbers of people depressed, very few people kill themselves so I can’t see that this is a counter argument.