Failed potentialities, regret and their link to depression and related disorders
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- Existential Concerns and Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures, 2022, pp. 223-234
- Issue Date:
- 2022
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A variety of studies have linked mood disorders to a ruminative style of thinking, particularly involving events and happenings from the past. When an individual’s early expectations of life are not met, depression may follow. In existential terms, depression may be linked to an individual failing to embrace the potentialities afforded by freedom. Post-event rumination, usually involving shorter time frames, has also been linked to social anxiety disorder, with individuals thinking over social encounters and how these were interpreted by others. Finally, regret and shame over early happenings can be involved in a range of pure obsessions, illness anxiety disorder and related conditions. It will be argued that all of these phenomena can be understood in existential terms and that this analysis is more in keeping with the way clients express their difficulties than typical cognitive and behavioural formulations.
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