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You Can Face Reality — LessWrong

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M. Scott Peck in the Road Less Traveled says something like, "Mental health is a commitment to reality at any cost." Gendlin's take on it is spot on too. I have an article that I'm writing on that in my emotionsforengineers blogspot. I will definitely link to this site as well. "Mental health is a commitment to reality at any cost." Depression is considered a mental illness. The depressed are less biased in their self-assessments than the population as a whole. Personally, I agree with Caplan and Szasz that "mental illness" is a poor borrowing from medicine to psychiatry and is usually unfalsifiable. The depressed are less biased in their self-assessments than the population as a whole. Can that be true? What about their assessments of the rest of the world outside themselves? My experience with depressed people runs very counter to that. Do you have any references to that? Depressive realism is an incredibly, well, depressing fact about the world. Is there something we're missing abou

x You Can Face Reality — LessWrong Pitfalls of Human Cognition Poetry Courage Litanies & Mantras Rationality Frontpage 233 You Can Face Reality by Eliezer Yudkowsky 9th Aug 2007 1 min read 41 233 What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse. Not being open about it doesn’t make it go away. And because it’s true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn’t there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it. — Eugene Gendlin You Can Face Reality 15 Tony 20 TGGP3 5 Tony 2 pnrjulius 5 DanielLC 1 pnrjulius -3 DanielLC 6 pnrju

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