i think this is all true about your relationships with depressed people you know, but not necessarily broadly applicable in the way you suggest. some people have both ADHD and depressive disorder diagnoses, and many of the symptoms are similar.
beyond that, i think you don’t quite understand the cognitive distortions that depression typically produces for people; they are common enough that most psychological inventories of depression include questions about them. depression can very much be thinking disorder, related to but distinct from emotion regulation.
i’m also not sure i think emotional repression is as common as you imagine. not having access to some kinds of feelings is not the same as repressing them, and certainly certain kinds of emotions—sadness, irritability, anger—are not only not suppressed but dominant. they aren’t pleasant emotions, but they certainly aren’t repressed.
to be clear, i think your observations are accurate in your relationships. i’d just be careful about generalizing.
i think this is all true about your relationships with depressed people you know, but not necessarily broadly applicable in the way you suggest. some people have both ADHD and depressive disorder diagnoses, and many of the symptoms are similar.
beyond that, i think you don’t quite understand the cognitive distortions that depression typically produces for people; they are common enough that most psychological inventories of depression include questions about them. depression can very much be thinking disorder, related to but distinct from emotion regulation.
i’m also not sure i think emotional repression is as common as you imagine. not having access to some kinds of feelings is not the same as repressing them, and certainly certain kinds of emotions—sadness, irritability, anger—are not only not suppressed but dominant. they aren’t pleasant emotions, but they certainly aren’t repressed.
to be clear, i think your observations are accurate in your relationships. i’d just be careful about generalizing.