You Suck Because You're Sad, Not Because You Suck

“Crushing guilt is a common symptom of depression, an observation that dates back to Sigmund Freud. Now, a new study finds a communication breakdown between two guilt-associated brain regions in people who have had depression. This so-called ‘decoupling’ of the regions may be why depressed people take small faux pas as evidence that they are complete failures. ‘If brain areas don’t communicate well, that would explain why you have the tendency to blame yourself for everything and not be able to tie that into specifics,’ study researcher Roland Zahn, a neruoscientist at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, told LiveScience.”
 — I guess this makes me feel better about how terrible I am. [Via]

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