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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Unfortunately, there are also people who will accept an excuse like "I was depressed" as a valid reason for failure. I, however, interpret it differently. This means that the person chose to let "depression", "sadness" or "drunkenness" control them. They chose to let an emotion get in the way of something that they knew needed to be done. If you made a mental decision that it was more important to be emotional, please.. say that. Say "I decided that it was more important to me to cry than to get my work done." That's what you're really saying when you say that you're "depressed." Allowing yourself to be "depressed" is convenient, because it lets you ignore the true reason for your failure.
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I have a question about this statement. Most companies will give their workers time off work in order to deal with the sadness/depression associated with the death of a spouse or child. In other words, these companies agree when the workers say it was more important to cry than to do work. Does this mean that employers are allowing, and even encouraging, their employees to fail? What kind of self-respecting company would do such a thing?
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Originally Posted by JinnKai
With understanding that there are legitimate (8)'s out there, most people are not. Anecdotally and experimentally, I can say with a high degree of confidence that most "depressed" people have not been diagnosed as chemically depressed.
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Just because a person hasn't been diagnosed as chemically depressed doesn't mean that they aren't. There are a lot of people out there who are depressed who haven't gone to see a doctor about it, because they think it'll go away on its own or because they can't afford to or because they haven't recognized the symptoms of depression in themselves. By your logic, one of these people is depressed and therefore a failure, yet is suddenly transformed into a non-failure the second a psychologist/psychiatrist utters the magic words "chemically depressed". Does that then imply that mental health professionals have the right/ability to determine who is and isn't a failure? If you think you're a failure, all you have to do is go to enough doctors until you find one who'll tell you there's a chemical basis to it, and then suddenly it's ok to fail, it's not your fault anymore?