According to a new study, people who are clinically depressed are less able to distinguish between their negative emotions than healthy people. According to Dr. Emre Demiralp of the University of Michigan, it can be hard to improve your life when you don’t know how you feel about certain aspects of it. Clinically depressed people commonly feel sadness, anger, fear, or frustration, but without being able to label and differentiate between those feelings, they can’t address the problem that led to the emotions. There were 106 participants between the ages of 18 and 40 in the study, half of whom were diagnosed as clinically depressed.
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