Depressed people aren't more upset than normal people.

[Doug Laidlaw]

I put the Subject badly. Surely when something makes them sad, depressed
people get sadder than ordinary people? Not according to this study:

http://uweb.cas.usf.edu/mood/docs/cd.pdf

People with clinical depression and a control group were shown a "neutral"
film (scenery) and a "sad" film (a funeral.) The depressed group were
sadder after the neutral film, but their feelings after the sad film were
comparable to the controls. Not what the researchers expected.
Explanations rejected (or better, excluded by further tests) were:

- a "ceiling" effect (I can be only so sad.)
- I don't find somebody else's funeral upsetting.
- I am so sad about myself that I don't feel it.

And of what use was the study? Probably earned somebody a doctorate.
Someone is doing a Master's degree on what makes genealogists tick.

Doug.