A friend of mine posted this on her FB. An article about depression. More often than not, people who are depressed show many signs such as the way they use certain words (i.e. language). They speak “the language of depression”. To untrained eyes, such things can go unnoticed.
The two aspects that worth to be noted are content and style. Content consists of emotion expressions, use of pronoun, rumination and social state (i.e. in the case of depression, social isolation). Style relates to how one express oneself. It relates to the former aspect, content. For example, the use of absolutist words (e.g. never, always, nothing, absolutely etc.) might indicate how a person views certain situation. A sentence like “There is nothing that I do matters” indicates how a person is using self-handicapping note in the language with reference to oneself (i.e. the use of the word “I”).
So, please be aware of our own language or others to detect any sign of depression. Indeed. Mind your (and our) language, please!
