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  2. Sad clown paradox - Wikipedia

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    Due to comedians often being of high intelligence, the school environment was detested and frequently avoided. [1] Comics explained that their teachers lacked understanding and acceptance, identifying their mannerisms as a form of personal exclusion. [1] Woody Allen commented that school "was boring, frightening. The whole thing was ugly.

  3. Paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions - Wikipedia

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    With the awareness of the primal split, a space is created in which the symbol, the symbolized, and the experiencing subject coexist. History, subjectivity, interiority, and empathy all become possible. [6] The anxieties characteristic of the depressive position shift from a fear of being destroyed to a fear of destroying others.

  4. Mental disorders in fiction - Wikipedia

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    About a teenage girl who is suffering from depression which results in suicide. Many other characters are also suffering from mental illnesses including bipolar, anxiety, PTSD, and also depression. Saint Jude, 2011 [1] novel by Dawn Wilson. Suffering from manic-depressive illness, Taylor spends her senior year of high school at a place called ...

  5. Self-discrepancy theory - Wikipedia

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    The self-discrepancy theory states that individuals compare their "actual" self to internalized standards or the "ideal/ought self". Inconsistencies between "actual", "ideal" (idealized version of yourself created from life experiences) and "ought" (who persons feel they should be or should become) are associated with emotional discomforts (e.g., fear, threat, restlessness).

  6. Emotion classification - Wikipedia

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    A popular example is Paul Ekman and his colleagues' cross-cultural study of 1992, in which they concluded that the six basic emotions are anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. [2] Ekman explains that there are particular characteristics attached to each of these emotions, allowing them to be expressed in varying degrees in a ...

  7. 7 Things Everyone Should Know About Depression - AOL

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    Depression is bad for anyone. But it’s worse for women. Learn to spot the signs of depression in women and find the treatment you need.

  8. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    fear of giving birth to a monster [38] or a disfigured foetus [39] Tetraphobia: fear of the number 4: Thalassophobia: fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean: Thanatophobia: fear of dying, a synonym of death anxiety; not to be confused with necrophobia: Thermophobia: fear of intolerance to high temperatures: Tokophobia: fear of ...

  9. 21 Depression Memes that May Make You Feel a Little Better - AOL

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    People with depression found the depression memes to be funny, relatable, shareable, and most importantly, mood-boosting, far more than those who weren’t depressed.