ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
"An illness of isolation, a disease of disconnection": Depression and the erosion of we-experiences.
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Abstract
Depression is an affective disorder involving a significant change in an individual's emotional and affective experiences. While the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM) mentions that social impairment may occur in depression, first-person reports of depression consistently name isolation from others as a key feature of depression. I present a phenomenological analysis of how certain interpersonal relations are experienced in depression. In particular, I consider whether depressed individuals are able to enter into "we-experiences" with other people. We-experiences are experiences had with two or more people as a
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